Tumaini

A story of Courage and Hope.  Tumaini is a lovely Maasai woman with 4 children.  She has been helping with our Save The Mothers program.  One week while on campus she accepted Jesus and was baptized.  Her name, Tumaini, means Hope.  Every month Tumaini spends the nights on the Neema campus with the grandmothers who come in for class, making sure they get to meals, to bed on time and class.

A few weeks ago she told us her story.  She was a second wife who had been bought to do the chores.  Her husband was a drunk who beat her regularly and did not care about her.  She was made to work for the first wife.  After years of abuse she finally ran away and went back to her parents house but they had both died and her brother lived in the house.  He took any money she was able to make working in the fields.  She had some goats and sold them but he took all the money.  She had nothing.  She cried as she told us about having no one who cared anything about her.

After hearing her story we have put Tumaini into our MAP program and for now hired her to help in the Hallelujah house where she will learn to cook, wash clothes and take care of babies at Neema Village.  Later she will move into the MAP houses and begin working toward a business.

The incredible fortitude of these African women continue to astound us!  We love to call them the Lion Hearted Women of Africa.  You can help women like Tumaini by donating to our MAP (Mothers Against Poverty) program through Outreach on the donate button.  We have set over 150 women like Tumaini up in small businesses.  It is not a loan program, it is a free gift.  Very few people can lift themselves up from such extreme poverty without help.  When you help an African woman you not only change her world, you change ours!