Just returned from Kenya
By Naomi Corera, July 11, 2017
Dear Friends,
I have just returned from Kenya and I would like to share some thoughts and updates with you. Returning back to the U.S. is much more than jet lag – it is leaving the real world of suffering brothers and sisters behind and coming to our comfortable life filled with God’s blessings. What are my thoughts and reflections in the long flight home on KLM, while being served food and drinks of all flavors and brands and water by the bottles? “Yes, Lord, thanks for my many blessings,” is all that comes to mind! So many daily blessings that I take for granted and miss only when I do not have them, like electricity after a storm.
Children begging me to get a sponsor for them to pay their school fees, mothers struggling to put just greens and Ugali (cornmeal) on the table each day, walking many a mile to bring home the firewood on their backs to light a fire for the water that they have to trek again to fetch from a distant borehole. Yes, the students sit in a high school with crumbling walls and long benches just to get an education that they know can change their lives. Where do they sleep and on what, while being buzzed about with mosquitoes – that alone keeps me up all night, just thinking of that.
But do not despair. You my dear friends have all been a part of bringing the joy to them and helping slowly by slowly alleviate their struggles, one family at a time. Yes, I call it “giving birth to a baby” while I am there, but the labor pains soon come as I board the plane back home.
So I invite you to once again join hands together with our 100% volunteer foundation, Children Waiting Everywhere, and help give birth to hope and light to children and families waiting everywhere. Won’t you join us?
Naomi