Gideon

His address was a tree.  Little Gideon lived under the tree with his mom and we could not convince her to come with us.  Social Welfare picked her up and she is now in Sober House and Gideon is with us at Neema Village.  We tried to keep them together.  The village leaders told us she had moved from a cave where Gideon was born and where they had been living until she moved to the tree on one of Arusha’s busy Highways.  It was painful to try to help her, she just would not agree to anything.  Gideon was terrified of everything but Nanny Orupa got him cleaned up and fed.   He is about a year and half old.  We will be supporting his mom while she goes through the alcohol addiction center for a year.  Hopefully he will be able to return to her.


When you leave this earth you can take nothing you have received, only what you have given.
St. Francis of Assisi