WCCM partners are giving a gift to western Kenyan widows and their families that says they Care enough to share. These one time $160.00 gifts are meeting hunger needs and the crises they face. It is changing their future. They are beginning a new life, knowing that God has used caring people to supply for their desparate situation and now a bright future is upon the horizon.
It was the summer of 1990, and Mildred Bwire Auma faced a deadly scenario. Her husband had just succumbed to AIDS. She knew he had infected her. Now her in-laws clamored for her to allow one of her husband’s brothers to make her his responsibility, as tradition has long dictated.
Auma, then 28, could scorn tradition, be driven from her community and face starvation with her three children. Or she could marry a brother-in-law, feed her offspring, protect her property — and pass on the virus. She chose (more…)
