A LETTER of gratitude
Yes, kindness makes a huge difference By Vincent Kituku With all COVID-19 related challenges, the war in eastern Europe, and the punitive increase in prices of available consumer goods, especially the price of gas, it is easy for caring people, like donors, to not think of the good they do for the less fortunate or whatever humanitarian causes they support. An email from Faith, an orphan we started supporting in 2013, shows how each donor’s contribution makes a difference. Here is what she wrote to her sponsors, Steven and Nancy:
th great gratitude to you “… I write this email wi itators for eight years. cil for being my academic fa hool in 2013, I was not sc gh hi When I first joined the end. You made me sure I would make it till finition for impossible. de realize that there (is) no e four years and even os th h You took me throug rsity studies. Through another four for my unive e light in a darkness that th Dr. Kituku, you became pe from. ca es I didn’t know how to u that I have I am pleased to inform yo a University with an Mar graduated from Maasai Political Science and in undergraduate degree u am lucky to have had yo Public Administration. I I wouldn’t have made y, in my life because honestl support. You ensured us it without your continuo e very first day of school th that I had school fees at dents. stu t which is rare for mos at God blesses you in Every single day I pray th breakthroughs and u great abundance, gives yo I cannot repay you for . es sir fulfills your hearts’ de have done to me. Only the great good that you I hope that He opens the good Lord above can. use I owe it to you and opportunities for me beca ccess and help another su to the world to become a s. ge en all child facing these ch meet you in person I hope that I’ll be able to nor. Have fulfilling t ho someday, it will be a grea , grace and favor. gs sin days full of God’s bles Thank you very much.” Faith Faith’s appreciation reflects the tens of hundreds of vulnerable children whose lives have been transformed and many others you are still transforming from abject poverty to hopefulness and being productive citizens of the world. I have read that message many times. We are touching and transforming lives. I receive seven or more pieces like this a month. After Faith’s sponsors got that message, they decided to sponsor a boy and a girl! I wrote to Faith and told her that her success has led to two other needy students getting sponsorships. n
26 July / August 2022 | Christian Living
Faith, a young Kenyan woman, graduated from Maasai Mara University with the help of sponsors in the Treasure Valley. She wrote her sponsors a deeply felt letter of thanks for all they’d done. (Courtesy photo)
Dr. Vincent Muli Wa Kituku, motivational speaker and author of “Overcoming Buffaloes at Work & in Life,” is the founder and executive director of Caring Hearts and Hands of Hope, a non-profit organization that raises tuition and fees for poor orphans and other children from poverty-stricken families in Kenya. Contact him at vincent@kituku.com or 208-376-8724.
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