Bag of Rice Project #199 -A visit to the Jackson family

Learn how you can be apart of helping people who are in need with our A Thrifty Mom Bag of Rice Campaign. In 2016 we started helping a young man named Ikechukwu from Nigeria. Summer of 2019 we were able to visit his family in Aba, Nigeria. While there we saw widespread poverty and lack of basic needs. We would like to invite you to help meet one of those basic needs, by providing Nigerian families with rice. This gift will feed a large family for a few months, or a single person a year. It also reminds them they are loved, and brings most of them to tears… as a full bag of rice is one of the most generous gifts they will ever receive. You can also read about other families we have been able to bless here.

The Following story is about the Jackson family, their bag of rice was donated thanks to Debra Bounds this is the 199th bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.

We met this wonderful family in a village in the southern part of Nigeria. They were introduced to us by their village chief whom we had to meet before we entered the village. He recommended the Jackson family to us and they were very interesting to meet. Mrs Jackson is a widow, she and her 4 kids live in a one bedroom mudhouse that has no electricity or plumbing. This village also has a problem with water and to get water they have to fetch from their local stream or collect rain water.

The Jacksons cook with firewood in a room behind their house. Mrs Jackson is a farmer and she grows cassava and sells the surplus in the local market so she can get money to feed and take care of her family. It took us a long ride to get to this family an I am glad we got to meet them.

We were so happy to meet this family after our long journey. The Jacksons were very welcoming of us. They were happy with our visit and even more excited with their bag of Rice. Something they could not afford to own. I can’t convey enough how grateful these families are for this bag of Rice, I can only say that to some of these families these bag of Rice is critically essential to them.

Learn how you can be apart of helping people who are in need with our A Thrifty Mom Bag of Rice Campaign. You can also read about other families we have been able to bless here.