KENYA - Nairobi
The Orthodox Church at the Forefront From Coronavirus Pandemic To Hunger Pandemic During the last five months that we have been literally trapped here in our place of service, we have experienced and tasted moments of pain and sorrow. Naturally, it was something that we expected. After all, within the Church, which is considered and actually is a healing place for bodies and souls, this is the main mission of the ministers of the divine and sacred sacraments. There are so many things to remember and write about, since this was our mission on a daily basis: Not only distributing food to the hungry, especially to children and the elderly, but at the same time giving actual support and a warm embrace to our suffering and
underprivileged brothers. It would be useful to give an overview of our experience, since we have made our presence felt as the Orthodox Church and conveyed the mystery lying behind hunger - which is of course,unacceptable in the 21st century. With deep respect and brotherly love but also prayer, we marched from one end of Kenya to the other, to live up close and support the suffering and deprived brothers, who no authority or entity undertook to relieve from pain, deprivation , the fear of the virus and of course, the fear of hunger. The first four months were crucial because of the restrictive measures - the so-called ÂŤcurfewÂť, 17
