Mother's program

The year started so well but very busy if we can start with mothers programs which take place on Mondays we have had so many mothers coming to the programs most of them would come with a motive to get material items like food and clothes but we are trying to change that. We are teaching and encouraging them to be able to depend on themselves and most of all depending on God.
We have come to realize that most of them don’t appreciate what they have and what God has given them it could be little and not enough but good than not to have for example we are making them understand they have a mind, hands, legs and life which is also a blessing from God. Most of them do not love themselves such that they have always been depending in men in the name of being married to them. Most women have more than one ‘husband’ for example a woman would have like four men in her life and she would also have children from those men each man each has a responsibility one would a father to provide daily bread another would pay the rent and the children grow knowing they are their uncles. The women are in a position where they do not love and appreciate themselves and yet they have so much potential in them.
We are teaching them to start from humble beginnings and to have patience in whatever they are doing we are making them realize they can make it in life if they can just learn from their down falls and move on and most all have hope in God. Most of them work for Somalis i.e doing house hold chores, others they borrow money from other people although we are trying to discourage that and encouraging them to work with their own hands. There are those who have had good life before which was with less struggles but something wrong happened along the way like losing a good job, having wrong friends who introduce them to drugs and alcohol then downfall comes into their lives, others get married to bad men who take advantage of them, others lives have become difficult since they became HIV positive.
In addition to that we are encouraging them to change their bad characters and to be women of noble character like the woman in proverbs chapter 31 in the bible and many other examples of good women in the bible. In the previous year the ministry did sponsor three women to go to college and it was like a good reward of their good change of their character they are Teresiah Mbuvi, Josephine Martha and Timar Omar all they did a course in hairdressing and did graduate this year . Alice who is HiV positive did catering, she always says she was from the dust but God lifted her up through the ministry. If I may talk about Josephine Martha, she was very sickly after being taken to college it came a time it was difficult for her to go to school. I took her hospital because she was very ill and from their we came to learn that she was HIV positive, she did deny it. Josephine did suffer a lot because she is believer in Christ what she knew is that she was faithful in her marriage and so she got the illness from her husband, she was so angry, bitter and in great denial. Later she went and talked to her husband what happened to her and the husband did deny and infact it ended up to be a blame game. She did come back to us and the only thing I told her is to accept it and go for treatment and we assured her we were there for her. She decided to go home to her biological parents and she had never been there like 6years and truly I thought she would die. After four months she was back and she was different healthy and good looking she asked if her chance was still there to continue with her course and it was there right now she is living alone she has finished with her course ,she is working at a market called Gikomba where she sells clothes for someone and she is paid and also she braids for money. At this moment she is grateful the ministry did give her hope of life when she needed it. This year five mothers were taken to college ;
a)Sarah she is doing catering. She is HIV positive and she used to sell drugs; later she was taken to jail because of it but she has learned to get clean money
b) Monicah Ndunge is in dressmaking.
c) Monicah in dressmaking.
d) Alice is also in dressmaking.
e) Joyce is in hair dressing.

By Ann