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Good Samaritan Lwanda Children's Home
Good Samaritan Lwanda* Children's Home
is now an official project of Hearth to Hearth Ministries, under the direction
of Mother Teresa Akeyo. There are 50 children there, with only 16 sponsored.
Thirty-one of the children at Good Samaritan Home are the ones who were dropped
off at Hope Center in March by the Kenyan government after the closing of Migori
Orphanage near Homa Bay. Good Samaritan Lwanda Children's Home is located about
15 miles from Hope Center. There is not enough room in the house shown above for
everyone to sleep, so some of the older children have to sleep in a school
building nearby.
This is a school building down the road where some of Theresa's children go to school. Now that Good Samaritan Lwanda Children's Home is an official project of Hearth to Hearth Ministries we are trying hard to raise money so that Theresa's children can all go to school and be housed on the same property.
The Children sleeping on grass mats.
The Children are excited because they got new mattress to sleep on. There still is not enough room for beds so the mattress have to be put on the floor at night.
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*Lwanda means rock. The name Lwanda was given to the village where Mother Teresa lives by the first pioneer of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kenya. He was from the US. That was way back in 1906. He had preached a sermon entitled, "Standing on the Sinking Sand or on the Solid Rock." Many people were converted into the faith and they promised to stand on the "Solid Rock," which is Christ.
Because those were the first days that Christianity was entering Kenya, and Africa at large, people were surprised at his sermon and called him, "the white man of the Rock." The village then received the name Rock and people there were known as people who follow "the Rock"