Bag of Rice Project #514 -A visit to the Sam 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 Sam family. Their bag of rice was donated thanks to TERRY SIMMONS, and this is the 514th bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.

The Sam family resides in Eket, in a village called Effoi. The family was inside when we visited, we knocked and they came out. They gave us a warm welcome and were tense to hear from us because they haven’t seen our faces before. When we told them what we have for them they were shocked and asked us if we were bribing them for the governorship election slated to hold next month. We told them someone donated it to them, they didn’t believe their eyes that someone who doesn’t know them is giving them a full bag of rice which is higher than the minimum wage in the country. The Sam family has 4 kids and when we visited only one was at home, the others were sent on an errand. The Sam family stays in a one bedroom and the house is made of mud but plastered.

Front view of their home
Side view

The Sam family does not have cooking gas so they switch to using firewood which is the cheapest they can afford. The family says they go into the bush to fetch firewood, though this is harmful to their health they don’t mind because they can’t afford cooking gas. Mr. Sam and his wife Alice are both unemployed. They said they engage in menial jobs when they are called, and it comes once in a blue moon.

Their kitchen

The family was so excited, they are happy they have seen what they will use to sustain the family for a while until they get a job. They thanked the donor for remembering them and prayed to the almighty God to bless them and bless the work of their hand. They waved at us as we left.

The Sam family

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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