Rael’s mother struggled with addiction and was unable to provide for Rael and her brothers and sisters. A worried neighbor found that the children had been left alone to fend for themselves and notified the authorities. Rael was only nine months old.
Shadrack, Joshua and Praise recently turned three years old and are growing up fast. Today, their smiles are wide as they try on their new uniforms and prepare to go to preschool for the first time, a very different picture from when their journeys first began.
At our Open Arms Village, every new baby is celebrated as a precious gift from God. Here, the aunties in the baby home welcome the newest arrival, a baby boy that was abandoned at a hospital. He now has a family and a home!
My heart breaks every time I receive an emergency phone call to tell me that another baby in Kenya has been abandoned, left all alone at the very start of their precious life.
It wasn’t long ago that I received one of these calls and was told the story of a little boy who was found in a plastic bag on the side of the road. The baby boy was only a few hours old.