Home For Christmas

I am hom ein Florida for Christmas but all i can think about is our children at SOHK and the needs.

I have had success selling out beautiful bags here and jewelry I have brought back form Kenya. But still the most important needs remain unmet.

• We need more children sponsored!
• We need people to make donations to our food fund for Christmas!
• We need generous giving to our new land project that will help us become self-sustaining!
• We need people who want to see this Ministry grow so that we can continue to change and transform lives.

Guest Blogger Holly Bantleman

Thank you so much for having me and for continuing to be an inspiration.

Returning to the SOHK orphanage and seeing how the children are growing was a great feeling.

Loosing their teeth, getting taller, gaining weight, bigger smiles, confidence growing, all evidence of a happy and healthy life, which is a huge contrast to where so many of them have come from.

From all the pictures of their beautiful faces it is sometimes easy to forget the destitute and dreadful situations that so many of them come from, but they smile happily today, because of the motherly love and care form molly and SOHK.

Through good times and bad, Molly struggles on, ensuring she can provide these children with their needs on a monthly basis, and then continues the struggle to support new causes, another abused, abandoned or neglected child, who will become part of the SOHK family, and juggles the funds so that she can support them to.

In Kenya, nothing is unexpected, and when another desperate child or young adult turns to Molly for help, she does everything in her power to support them.

Molly is a continued inspiration of un conditional love and an individual that puts everyone else before her self. Her orphanage is a reflection of this, and needs your continued support, to keep transforming these little lives.

The cost of serving Orphans in a Third World Country!

It has amazed me lately at the increase in food prices in Kenya. In one year prices have sky rocketed.

We have 38 plus children at our orphanage and others we take care of outside our home and it really is by God’s grace that we can do this.

Last year we could buy 50Kgs of sugar for about  4200 ksh…50 USD…it is now 10,000 KSH about 110 usd.

We were buying rice for about 3300 KSH at that time about 40 USD…now we are paying 55 usd.

Flour has increased by 80%

We went to do shopping yesterday for the kids and could not manage to get what we used to get for 650 usd. Meat and fruit were left for another day.

Everything has increased. It is unbelievable! these are just a few examples.  So pray fro us at SOHK that we will continue to care for these wonderful gifts from God in the manner that they deserve.  I know we are all feeling the crunch…just relaying that it is felt worldwide!

A New Website!

I am writing this blog on our new website  for  SOHK and Bagamoyo!

I am excited about this site as I hope it will be easier for me to access and use so that means I can keep all that are interested up to date on what is happening here with SOHK and our children and our  projects. Please be patient with me as I get used to this blogging experience and be forewarned…Their WILL be grammatical errors…lol

So today was not eventful except I straightened toys. We dont have a lot of toys but I will say these children are HARD on toys. I sincerely felt sorry for some of the dolls…I am having How to take care of toys meeting ASAP!!!

I think in many cases  our children have never had toys. So now that they do they use then to the MAX!

So remember if you ever would like to consider sending us any toys! Think indestructible!

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