Forgive me, but I've walked those same streets and am a little more cynical. Articles from the Daily Nation describe wasted resources and while a few are being helped, many, many, many more go unnoticed.
Further, an issue we've seen in our ministry is the long-term affects of those left behind. It's an obvious issue that non one seems to be addressing. One of the children in our ministry talked of sitting at the death bed of her father, holding him while he died, burying him. A little more than a year later, she sat at the same bed, this time her mother dying, buried, gone. How many more like her? Miriam had no chance to grieve, it was off to work to support her siblings. She was lucky, others aren't.
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Forgive me, but I've walked those same streets and am a little more cynical. Articles from the Daily Nation describe wasted resources and while a few are being helped, many, many, many more go unnoticed.
Further, an issue we've seen in our ministry is the long-term affects of those left behind. It's an obvious issue that non one seems to be addressing. One of the children in our ministry talked of sitting at the death bed of her father, holding him while he died, burying him. A little more than a year later, she sat at the same bed, this time her mother dying, buried, gone. How many more like her? Miriam had no chance to grieve, it was off to work to support her siblings. She was lucky, others aren't.
This issue is huge and only going to get bigger.
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