Our Blog

read the latest news

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.


611996 comments

  • Earnest

    Earnest

    24 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    Have you read any good books lately? https://globaldeeds.org/levofloxacino-legrand-500mg-preo-tezr ofloxacin ophthalmic para q es Increasingly they turn to Web-based wealth management firms or choose do-it-yourself brokerage accounts. Consider the typical clients at Wealthfront, an online investing broker that has amassed $300 million in assets under management by catering to a demographic that is comfortable doing most of their business online. These are people in their early 30s with $100,000 to invest, mostly above and beyond any tax-advantaged retirement plans like 401(k)s and IRAs. Chief Operating Officer Adam Nash estimates that Gen Y techies control about $100 billion in assets.

  • Elisha

    Elisha

    24 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    I love the theatre http://www.findingthelink.com/albuterol-25-rkde can albuterol cause mouth sores
    "Excessive screen time, computer time and playing [video games] definitely affect a child’s vision," agreed Dr. Widad Valme, a Brooklyn optometrist who works with ChildSight. "While using the computer or playing games for a long period of time, the student’s eyes begin to strain to focus and can cause headaches."

  • Emmitt

    Emmitt

    24 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    Stolen credit card http://www.towlerscoaches.co.uk/preo-do-remedio-aciclovir-200mg-eosc aciclovir cream bp 5 w/w Hashtags do, admittedly, have a valid purpose, and can be a useful way to navigate Twitter. However, excessive use of pointless hashtags, like #thatslife, multiple hashtags, or incredibly long hashtags, like #dontknowhowiwilleverlivethisonedown, can elicit a swift response of "Unfollow". What's even more annoying is when people start using hashtags on other social networks like Facebook, where they have no meaning, or even adding the word "hashtag" into their speech.

  • Lyman

    Lyman

    24 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    I'd like to open a business account http://twinforms.com/products/index.php/cephalexin-500mg-4-times-a-day-side-effects-cazf cephalexin tablets ip 600 mg for dogs As Best spirals, Busby’s words are suffused with sadness. “Every manager goes through life looking for one great player, praying he’ll find one. Just one,” Busby is quoted as saying. “I was more lucky than most. I found two – Big Duncan and George. I suppose in their own ways, they both died, didn’t they?”

  • Darrin

    Darrin

    24 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    I'd like to send this letter by https://www.niramayatales.com/paracetamol-650-mg-untuk-apa-tezr paracetamol dosis en nios ml He was convinced he'd get a "good job right away," circulating his resume and taking an unpaid internship at a legal aid clinic. Later that year, he went back to work for his family's roofing distribution business, where he had worked every summer for 13 years.

  • Sherwood

    Sherwood

    24 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    I stay at home and look after the children https://edutainment247.com/metronidazole-125mg5ml-dosage-cazf ofloxacin & metronidazole suspension powergyl "We told him that we need to maintain stability. He is needed for Egypt and the people love him and want him. Besides, who else can run but him? There is no one else as popular as him," said one army officer, who asked not to be named.

  • Irving

    Irving

    24 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    Please wait http://medstar-tr.com/p-boost-in-canada-q05a p-boost canada
    Federal authorities have launched an investigation into the handling of at least two alleged rapes at the University of Southern California to determine whether the school violated the victims' civil rights by dismissing their claims, the latest in a growing number of similar investigations at colleges across the country.

  • Mia

    Mia

    24 September 2021 ~ Comment Link

    Free medical insurance https://www.happymemagazin.com/cetirizine-and-levocetirizine-together-vjcr cetirizine hydrochloride superdrug "Member states acknowledged that, regarding the vehicleswhich do not conform with EU law, corrective measures shall betaken to bring the vehicles into conformity including thewithdrawal of those vehicles already sold on the market, as ithas already been done by a member state," the Commission said ina statement, referring to the French registration ban.

Leave a comment

BK Smart Programs, We make the society a better place every day.

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