5/4/2009

News of April

We have been blessed by many visitors here in Kenya this month and therefore the month has been very lively and eventful. We moved all our boarding kids to a new location and now the kids are really enjoying the new large playing ground. The new location is on a school compound in the center of the Mathare slum. It is like a happy oasis for us in the middle of the miserable poverty and it is truly a blessing. At the moment 140 kids are staying with us in the boarding, but we have another 480 kids in our school sponsorship program as dayscholars.

 
We have also been seeing the fruits of our labour in the changes we are noticing in many of the kids recently. We have seen beautiful changes in some of our hardest and most bitter streetboys as they are now becoming loving and cheerful young boys. How happy and proud we feel. Tears of joy start flowing. I am going to publish some of their testimonies in the coming days. This month my friend Anna Karlsdóttir from Seyðisfjörður Iceland is staying with us and she will be posting some news here along with Sigurrós Friðriksdóttir, who has been working with us since September last year.

Unfortunately, we have been struggling so much financially because of the bad economic situation in Iceland and we are really praying for a miracle. I don´t want to believe that we have come this far, only to fail at this point, so I know our miracle will come. Around 100 of our dayscholars are in a pathetic situation at home and need to be brought into the boarding facilities. I have faith that not only will we survive, but that we will be able to bring those 100 children into the boarding in the coming months.

Be blessed and we would love to hear from you,
Thorunn Helgadóttir, Director of ABC Kenya.