Kenya update
Debra Snellen has forwarded me an e-mail from Pastor Paul, our contact in Nairobi. As I mentioned in a column in the T-G this week, LEAMIS could not get in touch with Paul during the height of the election crisis in Kenya.
Paul pastors a church in the Kibera slums, a heart-breaking sardine can of 1 million people (or more, depending on who’s estimating) on the edge of Nairobi. It was the focus of some of last week’s violence:
Out of the Kibera slums alone we have more than 20,000 people rendered homeless and hungry due to the on going skirmishes. As a church we are doing all possible to offer any kind of assistance in terms of food and clothing to the victims of this tragedy.
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Paul’s wife Grace runs a clothing shop:
As earlier stated, the church facility, the school and the orphanage home are all intact and the boys are safe by the grace of God. However, if you can remember Grace’s small shop where Rebecca works … it was seriously looted and burnt down to the ground along with others on the same street. Right now we are trying to see how to reconstruct another one on the same location if possible. This rebuilding exercise will cost us approximately USD 1,800 due to the current inflated cost of timber and iron sheet material.
Your prayers are solicited.
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