Bag of Rice Project #481 -A visit to the Ini odu 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.

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The following story is about the Ini Odu family. Their bag of rice was donated thanks to The Watkins Family, and this is the 481st bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.

We met the Ini Odu family at Eket, a village in Akwa Ibom State. What drew our attention to the Ini Odu family was when we were passing and the children were waving at us, wishing us a Merry Christmas in advance. We dropped and followed the children to their house, and the mother was shocked when we came to the compound with the children. The family stays in a one-room apartment with their five kids. The house they are staying in is a mud house, which can collapse at any time. When we told them what we had bought for them, they were happy that they had gotten a Christmas present and that this was the first time someone had surprised them with a gift. They asked which political party was giving them a full bag of rice because it had never happened before, and we told them it was donated to them; they were shocked.

Front view of their home
Side view

The Ini Odu family constructed a kitchen at the back of their house, and cooking is done with firewood because they are unable to afford cooking gas. Mr. Ini Odu is unemployed, and his wife works as a contract worker on the farm, and she uses this to keep the family running.

Their kitchen

The family was happy with what they had gotten, and they said they had gotten a Christmas present and prayed for the donor to remember them in these trying times. They were happy until we left.

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.

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