Street Life

Many people walk through the doors of the CoG office, but today three visitors captured my heart. These three orphans boys have been living by themselves, in a make-shift home for over 3 years. Surviving by begging in the streets and collecting scraps from trash bins is no way for teenage boys to live. ..

They have lived in seclusion and fear for many years, but today they walked through our gates, reached out their hands and asked for help. One of our child mentors accompanied them to their home and this is what he found....

Hidden away, deep in the bush, so no one would find them or harm them - was a home made of sticks and collected trash........

I'm so thankful that CoG is a place where the gates are never closed and children can enter freely. Whether they need a new pair of school shoes, an escort to the clinic to treat malaria or typhoid, or have run out of hope and have no where else to go - they know they can come to CoG and we will care for them in whatever way we can. These boys will spend the next few months in a rehabilitation home - and who knows - after that, maybe they will find sponsors to help them to go to school.