Bag of Rice Project #558 -A visit to the Oliver 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 Oliver family. Their bag of rice was donated thanks to  TERRY SIMMONS, and this is the 558th bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.

We met the Oliver family in Mbiaobong Itam a village located in the southern part of Nigeria. When we drove into the compound it seemed no one was around but we knocked and they came out, they were shocked to see us and they gave us a receptive welcome. We told them what brought us to their house and they were shocked when they heard it, they were shocked a bag of rice could be donated to them by a stranger. They asked us if it was real because they felt it was a movie. They live in a one-room apartment, and the family is blessed with 4 kids and two of the children are out of school.

     

 The Oliver family is unable to afford coking gas, so they make use of firewood and cook at the back of their house. Using firewood to cook is harmful to the health and can cause a lot of diseases because they inhale smoke directly. Mrs. Oliver is a widow and she sells at the market to fend for the children. She said she needed money to complement what she is selling so that she could make more income to take care of the children.    

     

  As they prayed for the donor and expressed gratitude to God, the family was overjoyed and felt their spirits lifted. They said that the donor’s labors will be rewarded by God and that everything he touches will prosper. The family was famished and in agony, yet when we left, they were happy and smiling.  

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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