"True and faultless religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their distress...

James 1:27

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Sanctuary of Hope #1

 
Sanctuary of Hope #1 kids
 

Geoffrey and Janet
 

Debbie with gift
 

Eva
 

Geoffrey & Victor
 

John & Sammy
 

Kevin

George

Stacy Sr.

  video by Daniel Bourassa; music by Brendan Jamieson

Sanctuary of Hope #2

Sanctuary of Hope #2 kids

Stacy

Elvis

Esther

Faith

Simon

Playing cards

Alvin

Braiding Debbie's hair

Edith Karau with Alvin

Kids washing up before dinner

Little Esther

Mark

Brian (Debbie's husband) and Justin Briggs (Colleen's son)
playing with all 21 kids



Simon and David

There are two million orphans in Kenya, an East African country of about 30 million people. Some of these children can be found in Mathare Valley, the pit of heartbreak and despair and home to some 600,000 people within six square miles of Nairobi, Kenya. At the bottom of this human heap of misery are abandoned babies; AIDS orphans cowering in abusive relative's homes; and ragged street kids sniffing glue to escape hunger-physical and emotional. Many will enter and leave the world here, perpetuating a vicious cycle of generational poverty and hopelessness. 

Mathare Valley Sewage
 

Boy in Mathare Valley Slum
 

Home in Mathare Valley

Boy in the slum



Brother and sister

 From the heart of this relentless suffering, Kenyan Pastor Jepson Karau and his wife, Edith, Hope's Promise co-country coordinators, plucked out
21 orphans from the most desperate situations and enfolded them into two homes. From three-year-old Alvin to nine-year-old Geoffrey, twenty one previously forgotten little ones are now treasured beyond their wildest dreams.

www.hopespromise.com