Florah

This story is hard to read but bear with us God has a plan.  Florah is 16 years old and had been sleeping on a church bench.  When she was 12, she was raped and had a baby. Her mom was HIV positive, so Flora left after she had the baby to try to make money to help her mother. When she got back to her mother’s house, her mom was very sick and had lost or sold everything in the house to pay her rent. Not long after Flora got back to take care of her, she died and left Flora with her little brother and a baby. Her uncle came from Dar es Salam for the funeral and he took Flora’s little brother and Florah’s baby home with him to take care of them and left Flora to fend for herself. (She was probably between 14 to 15 years old at this time). She found a job as a house girl, but the son of her boss raped her. When she confronted her boss about the rape, he kicked her out and told her she was ruining his son’s life. She didn’t realize she was pregnant and started selling soap on the street but she was homeless. The friend who found her on the church bench called our Tanzanian director, Angel.   Florah had her baby on October 14 and he weighed 3.5 kg. He is a big boy. She named him Caren.  Flora speaks good English and we believe she will do very well in the MAP program.  She wants to open a beauty shop.

The rest of the story is that while Florah was  about eight months pregnant she accepted Jesus and was baptized at Neema Village!