"While visiting the
High Rise base, we came across Mercy and her three children. As you know, it's
never easy living with kids in the base. She had told Monicah (5) and Wairimu (3)
to sit by the roadside and beg for money. Since they know our team, the kids
tried to run from us mostly because Monicah had a bottle of Msii in her
mouth! Mercy was sleeping on the side of
the road with young James (1). Larry bought Juice for the two older ones while
Byron and Mary woke up Mercy.
I talked to Jane
Abuti, who told me that we had helped Monicah into a Lutheran home in Pangani,
but the mother had gone and taken her so she can use her to beg for money. The
team decided to take the child back and beg for her return to school and thankfully
she was re-admitted.
The Team went out of
their way to help Monicah and felt great that she would be safe. But even as
they celebrate Monicah going to school, they know Wairimu and his younger
brother are headed for danger. We keep hoping to find some way of helping the
others.
Blessings, Mbuvi"
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