"You have rescued us from darkness."

Said by an HIV+ mother to Charles Chege, a Family Hope Charity substance abuse recovery coach.

“Hail thee, festival day!

Blest day that art hallowed for ever;

Day whereon Christ arose,

Breaking the kingdom of death.”

Easter Hymn:  R. Vaughn Williams (1906)

You won’t find a harder-working group in the Korogocho-Nairobi slum than Kenyan mothers. Often facing life as single parents, you will see them walking the streets of Nairobi carrying huge bundles on their heads, a child on their backs and a sack in each hand — all in an effort to put bread on the table each day for their children.

But the pressures of living with and in Korogocho’s demonic poverty can overwhelm a person. ‘Living life on life’s terms’ can seem like a cruel slap in the face. HIV/Aids, alcohol-drug abuse, ignorance, violence, and absolute destitution can make a person wonder if indeed Christ did break the kingdom of death as the Easter hymn triumphantly proclaims.

Family Hope Charity’s substance abuse recovery coaches go door to door in Korogocho/Nairobi searching for HIV+ men and women who have been abandoned and left to die in their drunken misery.

Our recovery coaches offer these mothers and fathers friendship, acceptance, group support, and a chance to improve their lives by participating in income-generating projects.

  

Every $100 contributed by you, our Family Hope Charity friends and supporters, allows us to keep our coaches in the community, searching for those most have forgotten and consider useless.

Please remember Family Hope Charity in your Lenten prayer and almsgiving this year.Your donation is Christ working through you to break the kingdom of death, a kingdom all too tangible in the Korogocho slum. In grateful thanks, Tom O'Hern, Director, Family Hope Charity.

Tax exempt donations can be sent to our fiscal sponsors:

Family Hope Charity
c/c The Staudinger Foundation
P.O. Box 1208
Flagstaff, AZ 86002

Totus Tuus Ministries Web site
17236 St Gertrude Drive
Covington, LA 70453
Use the link to the Totus Tuus Web site and you can make a secure online donation via Paypal