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 Victor family. Their bag of rice was donated thanks to Dawn Coskren , and this is the 562nd bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.
We met the Victor family in Mbiaobong Itam village in Akwa Ibom, which is located in Akwa Ibom State, the southern part of Nigeria. When we went to the family compound, they were shocked when they saw us and asked if they could help us. We told them we came to see their family and that we had a sack of rice for them. The family was shocked that someone could gift them a bag of rice. They told us it has been hard for them since the new regime started, and they have found it very hard to feed. They said in their local dialect, abasi ami ani e odudu– this God is powerful. They asked us which government official sent us and we told them we were not sent by the government and that the rice was donated to them by someone. They did not believe it—that someone they did not know would donate a bag of rice for them. The Victor family is blessed with 5 kids and only 2 out of them are in school. This is because they do not have enough money to send the kids to school since they find it hard to feed them. The family stays in a one room apartment, and it is built with blocks; the house is not completed, and lizards crawl into the house because it doesn’t have a ceiling. The family makes use of a bathroom at the back of their house, and they are unable to get a modern bathroom.
Since they cannot obtain cooking gas, the family cooks with firewood. The family cooks with firewood. People are forced to use firewood even if it is unhealthy for them to cook with. The Victor family always struggles to make ends meet and has no job to do. Both the husband and wife do not have jobs. Their family has struggled to eat; obtaining a sack of rice was like winning a World Cup trophy. They do menial jobs to support their family.
The Victor family was pleased to meet us, even if they thought we had been sent by politicians. They were startled to learn that someone who did not know them from Adam could help when we explained it to them. They prayed that God would bless them in all they do and thanked the donors for making it possible for them to get a bag of rice during this joyous moment. Before we departed, the family expressed their genuine gratitude and was overjoyed.
- Purchase a HALF Bag of Rice Here
- Purchase a QUARTER Bag of Rice Here
- Buy a chicken here limited stock
- Purchase supplies for Orphanages
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.
