Forget my needs; pray instead for the starving children...

Here is an interesting email from my dear friend Fridah Mubichi in Meru, Kenya; she runs the Kanana Mubichi Memorial Foundation that I work with on mission trips:

Today is our annual general meeting so it will one of my longest days. We have 2 new board members plus election of officers. I am feeling so tired already and I am thinking when this is all over tonight, I will sleep for 12 hrs straight. So say a special prayer for me that my headache goes away and that I find the strength needed to just see me through.

I just came back from a deaf awareness campaign; Kenya organized this event for the very first time this year. Despite sitting in a tent, the dust and sun made me love my cold office which often feels like a freezer and has me always in a jacket.

I keep hearing such sad stories of how people are starving. I have seen it too but today, during the celebration, a young girl who was nicely dressed and was working as a cameraman's assistant fainted. As I rushed to assess her -- thinking she was epileptic -- I had the weirdest feeling that maybe she had fainted from hunger. When I asked her the last time she had eaten, she kept quiet.

The sad thing is that we tend to assume the poor and hungry are the ones also walking around in rags but this young girl has taught me a good lesson. She looked really smart in her black pants and yellow t-shirt but when she collapsed we all realized she was really, really, really SKINNY.

Kenya is in its third year of severe drought and the situation is very dire. I am wondering how far we can stretch out the feeding program that our foundation finances at area primary schools. Often our mid-morning snack is the only meal these children have each day. Food is expensive and hard to find. People are really really desperate.

On second thought, forget about my prayer request; my troubles are small. Let's pray for these people and the thousands of innocent kids who don't understand why they don't have any food to eat.

God save us all.

Fridah

fridah@kananamubichifoundation.org
Miriam Kanana Mubichi Foundation:
Equiping communities for sustainable development

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