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Your Support Gave Hakim a Bright Future…and a Green Thumb!
When you support Kinship United, you’re investing in a brighter future for children who once thought tomorrow wasn’t promised. Children who didn’t know where their next meal was coming from, let alone if they would ever go to school. And children whose families loved them, and were desperate for a better life for them. Hakim working on his welding. Children like Hakim. Hakim was just eight years old when his grandmother made the difficult decision to part ways with him in the hopes of him having a better life. She brought him to our Kyengera Kinship Project in Uganda, knowing Child Stories
This Widow Struggled to Make Ends Meet; Help Was Just Next Door
Linet was living her dream life. She married her beloved husband in 2016. They lived happily together in Nairobi, Kenya, and the couple was eventually blessed with two beautiful girls. Linet’s husband worked hard to provide for his family and give them the best while Linet took care of their children and their home. They were happy… until tragedy struck just five years later. “I never knew I would be a widow at this age.” Linet’s husband died in January of 2021, leaving her heartbroken and shaken. She never imagined being left alone with her two children so young. “I Caregivers
Cayacoa Kinship Project: An Update
If you’re an avid reader of the Kinship United newsletter, you’ll remember that a recent issue featured our Cayacoa Kinship Project in the Dominican Republic. The Cayacoa Kinship Project began construction in early December to repair the roof, fix up the walls, and repair some structural work in the church portion. Construction will finish soon. In addition, the Cayacoa Kinship was finally able to purchase musical instruments for their worship services (see pictures below)! The caregivers and orphans at Cayacoa could not be happier or more grateful. We would like to thank our dedicated Cayacoa monthly sponsors for their steadfast Newsletter
Mary’s Story: Asleep in the Graveyard
Can you imagine sleeping in bed with your husband one night and sleeping in a cemetery among gravestones the next? This is the tragic story of Mary, a widow who endured this situation before she found happiness at the Nyasi Kinship Project in Kenya. Mary never imagined that she would become a widow at 35. Her husband was a loving man who worked hard to provide for Mary and their children. Mary enjoyed every day of her marriage. Then came “the Black Saturday.” Heartbroken and Hopeless "Black Saturday" is what Mary calls the day she became a widow. Her husband Newsletter
Hunger: An Ongoing Battle
Since spring of 2020, we've been focused on health and hygiene more than ever. Indeed, disease and illness drastically impact the regions we serve together – they continue to today, and they've been ravaged by illness and lack of medicine long before COVID-19 was common vernacular. Health is an ongoing need with a spotlight upon it in recent times. But health has partly overshadowed another ongoing issue: hunger. When you think of hunger, an oversaturation of statistics probably comes to your mind. You already know how rampant hunger is, not only in impoverished countries, such as those we serve in Newsletter
