Bag of Rice Project #418 -A visit to the Asuquo 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 Asuquo family, their bag of rice was donated thanks to Kerri Lindstrom this is the 418th bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.

We met this family in Ikom Ima, a village just outside Uyo, Nigeria. We randomly chose to enter a street and saw Mr Asuquo just sitting outside his home and decided to talk to him. Mr Asuquo got married a year ago and him and his wife has no kids yet. They live in a one room apartment in an apartment with other tenants all sharing the same utilities.

They can only afford to use a small kerosene stove and use the back of their home as a kitchen. Mr Asuquo is a tailor but he does not have his own space yet. He still works as an apprentice while working to save and get a shop of his own. His wife sells fruits at the local market and even though they do not make enough, they manage what they have.

Mr Asuquo and his wife were very happy to meet us an were very surprised when they spoke to us and saw what we brought for them. They were very grateful for the bag of Rice and they kept thanking us even when we went to see other people on their street. They were grateful to those who donated to their family and I know that this bag of Rice will go a long way in helping them out as they start their married life.

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.