Elizabeth Williams

At six months old Elizabeth was left at her grandmother’s doorstep.  She grew up with her grandmother but had to quit school at standard 3 because of several surgeries on her leg.  At fifteen she began working as a house girl while still living at home with her grandmother.  At a young age she married a man who was an alcoholic who began beating her.  With two babies now she had to go back home to grandmother where life was very hard.  She went back to being a house girl.

Soon she met another man but when she told him she was pregnant he ran away.  Grandmother could not continue to keep her with three kids so she rented a very cheap house and started working in other people’s fields and begging to wash their clothes so she would have money to buy food for her children.  But with three babies and one a special needs baby, life was very hard for Elizabeth and her little family

One day Elizabeth was on a Daladala (local transport system).  Some people saw her struggling with her special needs child and asked if she knew about a place called Neema Village who helped moms with special needs babies.

She is now in our MAP program (Mothers Against Poverty) and she gets money for food every month but is looking forward to starting her own business so she can become self supporting.

Thank God for grandmothers in Africa!  And Thank God for you also who love and care about these women who have been kicked out, abandoned, abused and marginalized in their homes and villages.   Without an education and without help very few people call pull themselves up out of such extreme poverty.  Bless you for caring.