Caring Hearts and Hands

Vincent Kituku addresses parents at Kangundo Redeemed Gospel Church about the importance of educating children on January 24th,2010.

Students of Bishop Paul Mutua High School, where Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope is supporting ten students,
stand in line to receive lunch and enjoy it under the shade of nearby trees

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Dr. Vincent Muli Kituku speaking to Matungulu Girls High School in Jan. 2011

Dr. Vincent Muli Kituku with Tala High School students after his presentation in Jan. 2011

Dr. Kituku speaking to 8th grade pupils at Kangundo Primary School in Jan. 2011

Bags of maize, donated by Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope at Baraka technical college.

Students at Baraka Technical College standing in line to recieve food donated by Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope.

Rev. John Mutuku Katundu, Director of Baraka Technical College, wrote, "…the situation of hunger and drought is an extremely bad story in this village. Last Thursday I found two young girls in the school compound who were very week and looked like sick. I gave them some milk because I thought they were sick. They told me they had gone for three days without any food and had come for at least a meal in this school. I was moved with compassion and found my self shedding tears. I couldn't sleep when I imagine their situation…"



	What sponsors are doing is beyond touching lives. I cried when I met and heard the stories of some of the sponsored. Joseph, a sophomore student at Tala high school, was expecting to be sent home the second Saturday after schools opened early in January. That day, he woke up, washed, dried and packed his clothes to wait for the school accountant to send him home for the lack of tuition and fees for first term of 2011. Remember, this is the boy who, as a freshman walked for miles searching for someone who could help him with tuition and fees. He had passed the high school entrance exam with flying colors. Yet he had no one to help. Bishop Matheka took his information and emailed it to me. I wrote his story and a sponsor paid his tuition and fees. But Kioko, didn’t know how his tuition and fees had been paid. You can imagine his desperation and hopelessness when he saw the school accountant approaching him. But instead of being sent home, he was given a tuition and fees receipt, paid in full for the 2011, 1st term (January-April). Kioko, like most of the orphans, children of widows and those from poverty stricken families we are sponsoring, is a top student. He was number one in his class of 60 students. I had not notified the school that I was to visit. After meeting with the school principal, he arranged for me to see Kioko. He was not told who I was. An amazingly confident student, he revealed to me the miracle of that Saturday he was expecting to go home and languish until a merciful person helped him. I just said that I had heard of him and wanted to know how he is faring in school. I can’t write about his reaction when he finally learned that I was somehow the reason his tuition and fees had been paid. He was speechless. He at last said, “Oh my God!” and covered his mouth with both hands. The next student I met is Pascaline but I am unable to put the suffering of that girl into words. How do you write about a girl who hid herself from teachers so that she could do the end of year exams instead of being taken to the hospital to have her pneumonia treated? That illness did not prevent her from putting her feet in cold water in order to stay awake and study for the exams. I remember doing the same thing, but not when I was suffering from pneumonia. Pascaline, a top student (position 2 out of 80) wants to be a medical doctor. Her academic performance proves that she has what it takes. A sponsor has re-kindled her hope. Vincent Kituku addresses parents at Kangundo Redeemed Gospel Church about the importance of educating children on January 24th,2010. Students of Bishop Paul Mutua High School, where Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope is supporting ten students, stand in line to receive lunch and enjoy it under the shade of nearby trees > Dr. Vincent Muli Kituku speaking to Matungulu Girls High School in Jan. 2011 Dr. Vincent Muli Kituku with Tala High School students after his presentation in Jan. 2011 Dr. Kituku speaking to 8th grade pupils at Kangundo Primary School in Jan. 2011 Bags of maize, donated by Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope at Baraka technical college. Students at Baraka Technical College standing in line to recieve food donated by Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope. Rev. John Mutuku Katundu, Director of Baraka Technical College, wrote, "…the situation of hunger and drought is an extremely bad story in this village. Last Thursday I found two young girls in the school compound who were very week and looked like sick. I gave them some milk because I thought they were sick. They told me they had gone for three days without any food and had come for at least a meal in this school. I was moved with compassion and found my self shedding tears. I couldn't sleep when I imagine their situation…"

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