Mathare Valley Slum
See where the 23 kids grew up and where thousands of impoverished children still remain.
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"True and faultless religion before God the Father is this:
to care for orphans and widows in their distress....
James 1:27
There are two million orphans in Kenya, an East African country of about 30 million people. Some of these children can be found in Mathare Valley, the pit of heartbreak and despair and home to some 90,000 people within three square miles of Nairobi, Kenya.
At the bottom of this human heap of misery are abandoned babies; AIDS orphans cowering in abusive relative's homes; and ragged street kids sniffing glue to escape hunger-physical and emotional.
Many will enter and leave the world here, perpetuating a vicious cycle of generational poverty and hopelessness.
Mama and the kids!
From the heart of this relentless suffering, Kenyan Pastor Jepson Karau and his wife, Edith, Hope's Promise co-country coordinators, plucked out 23 orphans from the most desperate situations and enfolded them into two homes.
From five-year-old Alvin to eleven-year-old Geoffrey, twenty-three previously forgotten little ones are now treasured beyond their wildest dreams.
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From five-year-old Alvin to eleven-year-old Geoffrey, twenty-three previously forgotten little ones are now treasured beyond their wildest dreams.
www.hopespromise.com