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 Etim family. Their bag of rice was donated thanks to Ky Lauren, and this is the 566th bag of rice our program has been able to give away thanks to generous donations.
We met the Etim family on the outskirts of Uyo. The road to the Etim’s family was not in good condition; it took us an hour to be able to reach them because of the state of the road. When we got to the compound, it seemed no one was living in the compound because it was an uncompleted building. Someone told us there was someone inside and she went in to get her for us. When she came out, she said she did not hear us when we were calling on her because she was in the bush taking her bath. She asked us our purpose of our visit because she had not seen these faces before; when we told her our purpose for the visit she was shocked and was crying because she found it so hard to feed the child since the father died. Mrs. Etim has 1 child and she is out of school. Mrs Etim lives in an uncompleted hotel building which she would have to leave; before they resume work on the site. She told us at some point she felt we were coming to tell her to leave that construction on the property; she is staying is about to commence because she does not have money to rent a house. The house she stays in is an open space and they get easily infected by mosquitoes. The house lacks the basic amenities, they have no toilet or bathroom.
Mrs Etim cooks with firewood at the back of the uncompleted building; she is unable to afford cooking gas. Cooking with firewood is bad for the health and they inhale the smoke directly which harms the body in the long run. Mrs Etim is widowed the husband died when the daughter was 2 years old, she has been the one fending for the family since then. Mrs Etim is a trader and she has a provision shop in the front of the uncompleted building, she uses that to feed.
The family was pleased that someone who didn’t even know their name could offer them a bag of rice. They asked God to continue protecting, guiding, and supplying for them at their time of greatest need. The family seemed delighted and joyful as we drove off. They waved as we drove past their residence.
- 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.
