REAL, PRACTICAL TRANSFORMATION AND EMPOWERMENT!!!
The real road of compassion, that is, giving, helping, assistance and community service, is a road that can be set and declared as your life’s purpose. There is more happiness in giving than in receiving. Nothing exalts the soul or gives it a sheer sense of buoyancy and victory so much as being used to change the lives of other people. Helping others, without expecting anything in return is what true self-worth is all about.
Kimanzi a registered youth at our FCP, KE0759 was enrolled here at A.I.C Kanzinwa church in January 2009 when the FCP was commenced. Kimanzi is 19 years old now and in high school one at Mandala secondary school. He confesses to have greatly benefitted from sponsorship program here. Kimanzi thanks his beloved supporter for his earnest support to him, he has been gradually and positively growing up in four areas of development; spiritual, economic, socio-emotional and physical. This registered youth owns the following items bought from his gifts as follows:-
-A three roomed permanent house and a pit latrine
-Ten goats
-One bull
-Nine sheep
-Four cows
-Three donkeys
-Ten chicken
-A functional motorbike which is used for boda boda/hired transportation since 2014 and it earns Kes. 200 per day for this particular family!
-An active bank account which has Kes. 230,000 to date
Kimanzi is a hardworking and focused registered youth who has been utilizing his time effectively since mid-March this year when COVID-19 pandemic became a global threat and concern. He has utilized his three donkeys bought from gifts sent to him by his beloved supporter to carry sand and water to construction sites in their neighborhood and he has managed to purchase other eight goats from wages he has been receiving. He too singled handedly made and baked bricks. And constructed a two roomed house for his own use and freely gave the other house built from his gifts to his beloved parents. In last month; October 2020, he fortunately got another gift of Kes. 48,326 that his beloved parents and him agreed to install complete solar panel and its accompaniments for family lighting purpose. Kimanzi has been lucky enough to receive large gifts as follows in respective years: -Kes. 85,000, 94,000, 96,000, 104,000, 114,000, 124,000 and in last month he received 48,326, his siblings to has greatly benefitted from Kimanzi’s gifts in this way:- We once paid school fees for his sister from high school two to high school four and college fees for his elder brother. And they happily graduated from their respective levels of their education without straining.
Kindness and helping others will return to you when you least expect it, and maybe when you need it. Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Contrary to what the media and society has taught us, happiness comes from our human tendency to become better at something and helping others become better at something as well. This is the real, practical transformation and empowerment! “I vividly recall one of his letters from his beloved supporter who was very happy to know that Kes. 96,000 that he sent to Kimanzi as a family gift facilitated construction of a three roomed house! While at their place that amount qualifies to be his one month’s house rent!” He went further and told Kimanzi to pray for him to be able to buy his land and construct his own house since it is quite expensive in their home country for one to own land!” Kelvin a church staff recalls.
