How Compassion changes lives.

How Compassion changes lives.

Print Email
(1 Vote)

Growing up in a small village in the eastern part of the country, life was not easy. I often stayed at home due to lack of school fees, and my father did not believe in educating a girl child so getting an education was a big problem. My mum tried to raise me and provide for my basic needs, teaching me herbal medicine, cookery and domestic skills, but every day I slept hungry and walked around barefoot. I didn't have any comfort in life. It was a hopeless situation.

In the midst of the hustles and bustles of life, at the age of six I was recruited in a Compassion Development Centre. At that age, I would never have known what that place would do for me. My life changed from the second I joined the project. The environment was friendly and the teachers were kind and loving, so different to what I had known before, with strangers often being hostile and rude. There would be enough food and drinks for everyone, something I had never experienced – nobody would go hungry – and we prayed and played with our teachers.

Compassion was the only joy in my life when my mum got married again

She may have fallen in love, but I was forced to stay with a man I didn't know, and to make matters worse, he was a drunkard. He would come home late at night and while my mother slept after a long day at work making little money, I would have to let him in. I was a fragile child, and he would sexually abuse me in the night. I hated him, but I couldn't tell anyone about it. I was scared if someone found out, they would take me away from my mum. I kept it to myself and I let it eat me up from within. For some girls like me who were being abused, they would run away and never be seen again. Project teachers realised I was academically deteriorating and that my self-esteem and self-confidence were lowering despite keeping up in class. They found out what was going on and were able to rescue me from the evil at home.

They took me for counselling and encouraged me to speak out – without them I wouldn't have given my life to Christ or discovered who I truly am. I realised the need for a girls' programme to protect young, innocent girls like I was, with everything I had learnt through them. I decided to create the Smart Girl Mentorship Programme to help young girls speak out about suffering in their lives. Not only that, but I have a full time job running my own company called BK Marketing – a social marketing company which uses marketing models to help others make money. I am at the initial stages of development of this business, which I am running myself. In January I became a full-time self-employed entrepreneur and right now I'm focusing on growing my companies and looking for partnerships. Somehow, in spite of everything against me, at 27 years old, my life is a world away from what I once knew. From the very beginning, my Compassion sponsors assured me of their unconditional love and told me that I matter. I wasn't used to hearing such positive things. Their donations also gave me the opportunity to escape the poverty I was living in. Their letters were always a source of joy and inspiration and I have kept them all as they gave me strength and continue to. Compassion is where my dreams were hatched, by taking a negative situation and turning it into something like the girls' programme I run today. Now I have been empowered through Compassion, I can empower others to break free from life in poverty.


611205 comments

  • Ronny

    Ronny

    11 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    How do you spell that? http://lucasthul.com/pulmicort-mechanism-of-action-fnnz pulmicort do inhalacji dla dzieci That would leave about $40 million to sign the other 10 players for next year’s roster, as the $189 million figure includes all 40-man roster salaries, insurance costs, medical costs, pension benefits and other non-salary expenses.

  • Billie

    Billie

    11 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    An accountancy practice http://www.dingswizard.com/zofran-odt-generic-awbu zofran odt tablet disintegrating 4 mg Last month, a Thompson associate, Eugenia Harris, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and campaign-finance violations. Authorities say she funneled more than $650,000 through her companies into an off-the-books "shadow" campaign to aid Gray -- similar to the scheme prosecutors described in White's case.

  • Goodboy

    Goodboy

    11 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    I'm from England https://telhasreal.com/levofloxacino-750-bula-eosc marbofloxacina dose gatto “The only thing preventing people from going back to work and basic research starting back up and farmers and small business owners getting their loans, the only thing that is preventing all that from happening right now, today, in the next five minutes is that Speaker John Boehner won’t even let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesn’t want to anger the extremists in his party,” Obama said.

  • Adam

    Adam

    11 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    I'd like to transfer some money to this account https://oenix.vn/hydroxyzine-10mg-tablets-side-effects-eosc hydroxyzine and sleep walking This isn't what daily worklife looks and sounds like for most employees. Regardless of industry or workspace, there's usually a hierarchical pecking order that determines how decisions are made and duties are assigned. But for the handful of companies with flat structures, or "bossless" offices, the goal is to eliminate rigidity and thereby eliminate bottlenecks in productivity, boost employee engagement and positively impact performance and output. Still, "it is an unusual environment, and it might not be for everyone," Sheridan admits.

  • Roland

    Roland

    11 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    It's a bad line https://www.toolsandadvice.com/prilosec-otc-capsules-eosc which is better prilosec nexium or prevacid At the same time, the government has been tightening accessto corporate records. Last summer, it began restricting theavailability of corporate filings to China's main businessregistry, the Administration of Industry and Commerce. Theserestrictions are still in force, investigators say.

Leave a comment

Press enter to search

Buckle

BK Smart Programs

Where we make the society a better place every day..

Tel +254 (20) 2659865
iinfo@bksmartprograms.como
Westcom Point, 2nd Floor,
Mahiga Mairu Avenue,
Westlands, Nairobi
P.O Box 474554, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya.

Opening Hours

Mon - Fri
8:00 am to 17:00 pm
Saturday
9:00 am to 16:00 pm
Sunday
Closed