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Bryce Homes Kenya Update |
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Greetings from Bryce Homes Kenya to all the UTT and Lighthouse Trails readers’ family. The month of June has been cool over here with averagely cloudy and partially sunny days with evening rains. What this means here is plenty of green leafy indigenous vegetables which is always a common meal on the table for every humble household. We were able to reach the widows under Bryce Homes Program and from one household to the other, we received testimonies which are acutely decorated with good deeds courtesy of the readers’ family. In 12 years, Bryce Homes Kenya has been able to have impact on the lives of over 80 widows and 170 orphan children.
Bryce Homes Kenya consists of two categories of widows: young widows who are also mothers who have had little or no education as well as the elderly widows who have orphaned grandchildren to provide for. Whereas the program provides a regular monthly support in terms of foodstuff for all the widows, Roger Oakland and the local Board that oversees the program in Kenya discovered a way of assisting young widows to get an extra income to help subsidize the monthly gifts and more so educate their children. These young widows were encouraged to engage in Small Business Opportunities (S.B.Os) through which they got a one-time support in terms of starting capital. These young widows engage in S.B.Os listed below:
· Small groceries where they sell vegetables · Retail of fresh small fish in the open air markets · Sewing of clothes especially dealing with repairs · Weaving of baskets · Molding of clay pots · Baking of dough nuts
Through the S.B.Os, some of these widows have progressed to reach a level of self-dependency which is so encouraging. They owe their success to the readers who came in their way to start the initial support in these businesses. Upon their success, we graduate them to live a self-sustainable life as we introduce new needy cases. This arrangement has been so motivating and makes us feel it is the way to go so as to continue reaching out to as many widows as possible. Above everything else, these widows get to know Jesus and continue to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ by deed.
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important to note that most of these young widows who are equally mothers
have lived with HIV/AIDS after the demise of their sole breadwinners. A few
cases are young women whose marriages have been broken on grounds that are
beyond human solution. For instance, a mother of three who was sent away by
the husband for "failure" to give birth to a male child. Due to illiteracy,
some families break on such grounds, and we take advantage to reach them
with the gospel of grace as we also bless them with what God makes
available. Children are our priority in this program. We thank you all for coming to their aid.
Finally, may I encourage every reader to keep on with the
good work as whatever little you give brings great impact on these
vulnerable but innocent children of God. The giving has proved to be so
helpful over the years and we continue to share the good news to the
onlookers, and this alone win souls every month.
Left:
Agnes kneels down to thank God when she received the support earlier this
month.
Kezia with her grandchildren being introduced by Lawrence in
to the program to replace Pesila.
These smiles were meant to go along way so may ALL the
readers receive them in
Left:
Maurine1 conveyed her greetings to the readers.
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