From Marion: Leon Jeffcoat and I were on the 2007 St. Luke's Mission Team to Kenya. The 2007 team built an Aids Orphan home for a lady with three small children who was unable to walk because of a disease she had contracted. She had been furnished with a wheel chair but the family had no home because their previous home had washed away in heavy rains. We built a standard aids home but added a ramp so she could get in the door with her wheel chair. When Jerri Savuto visited St. Luke's in April, I had ask about the family. She related to me the lady had been taught to knit by a mission team and was able to help support her family by selling the things she knitted. After we inquired about the family after we arrived in Maua, we were given the opportunity to visit them. Leon and I along with a case worker and Stanley Gitari, who is in charge of the outreach programs for Maua Methodist Hospital, drove to the home over very rough roads on Friday morning. The house was as we built it in 2007 with the addition of an outdoor cooking area and an outdoor toilet. The three boys were there to meet us and the older two said they remembered us. The lady made her way out the door and into her wheel chair. She seemed glad to see us and would nod and answer in Swahili which Stanly translated for us. In response to a question, she said she did not have any knitting to sell. As we were leaving, the oldest child told Stanley she did not have money to buy any more yarn. Leon and I ask Stanley if we could give him some money to buy yarn for her and he said yes. We gave him the money and that afternoon back at the Hospital, he came by with a large bag of yarn in several colors and said the yarn would be delivered to her and he would give us a report on how she is doing.
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