When young children do their homework, they always bring to their parents to have a look and see if they have done the right thing.
Author: Cynthia Gitonga
When I was a young girl I always wanted to become a nurse or maybe run a children's home someday, this was prompted by the passion and compassion i always had for people and for giving back to the community. When I didn't achieve to make the cut for nursing, I found my way into community service, and that is when i decided to create the Embakasi West Eagle Mama's Welfare Association.
Embakasi West is surrounded by three major slums and these are, KCC, City Cotton and Kiambio. Majority of the children going to public schools are from the slums. these children are very needy, and thus why i started this project e.g to donate sanitary pads to the needy girls in the constituency and also hold monthly mentorship programmes that are catered to motivate these boys and girls to have hope and believe in themselves, that they too and make it in this society.
The welfare seeks to empower the women in the constituency through income generating activities
Faith
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, evidence of things not seen. Throughout the Bible we are reminded time and time again to have
Holy Spirit
As a parent, I have learnt to always listen to what my children tell me, sometimes they say things that don’t make sense, but as
Jesus, the name that saves!
Many years back when I was young, I used to have very bad nightmares, they were so bad, that I would fall from my bed,
Give God a chance…
So am cleaning my youngest son’s nose and he says to me “mum let me do it myself,” so he takes his handkerchief and does
Where are we headed?
Police killing innocent people on the streets, like they didn’t matter. Husbands killing wives to get a shot with the other woman, wives killing husbands
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