January 23
Today, we visited the A.I.C. Kajiado Children’s Care Center. The scope of their programs, much like the DCC in Maua, is to bring disabled children to the center and direct them to the care they need. Some need physical therapy, and some surgery. You help make the surgery possible by your donations. As we have mentioned in the past by buying health insurance for the children $1 is leveraged into $4 of care. The center is out in Maasai Land where a drought is making water hard to find. Recently, the Rotary Club of Nimmonsburg, NY has been partnering with the Thica Road, North Nairobi Rotary Club to finance the water pump and related infrastructure to start pumping water from a recently drilled well (bore hole as it is called here.) The pictures show the hydrotherapy pool that you helped renovate and a couple of the children who received surgery through your efforts.
A few thoughts as we near the end of this trip. Kenya has changed remarkably and hasn’t changed at all. What has changed is that the middle class has grown. This has engendered many new business’, and many new apartment buildings. From the looks of many big new homes, so has the upper class. None the less, the overwhelming proportion of the population is poor. That is what has not changed. It is these people that God called me to serve in 2007. We are blessed to have changed lives in some small way. We are driven by John 5 starting with verse1:
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. [ ] One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”
“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.
I appreciate your support, prayers, and encouragement. Thank you for following our travels and adventures. I especially thank my wife Liz, a supportive and able companion.
Would you please help us to serve God’s least. You may donate at: https://www.networkforgood.org/donation/ExpressDonation.aspx?ORGID2=58-1579359
Or checks to:
Wilson Rehabilitation Foundation
10228 Paradise Dr.
Largo, FL 33773
Blessings,
Doug
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