Bag of Rice Project #347 -A visit to the Etim 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 Etim family, their bag of rice was donated thanks to Deanna Mecham this is the 347th bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.

We came across this wonderful family at Ikot Oku on the outskirts of Uyo, Nigeria. We were received by Mr Effiom Gregory Etim his wife and her three kids. The name of the first son was Iyene Effiom Etim. These beautiful family lives in an uncompleted building surrounded with some farm animals and their farming tools they have a small farm by the side of their house and some plantain trees. Mr Effiom and his wife are farmers.

We were able to have access to their kitchen. The Etim family is a large one. They were lots of pots at the time they were preparing a meal made from the vegetables in their small farm. They also hanged their corn upside down so it can be dry enough for roasting, that was their meal for supper.

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.