The Heathen as Your Inheritance

Psalms 2:8

The whole creation of God is centered on the salvation of mankind. God’s biggest project is the redemption of fallen mankind. Nothing we  do can touch God’s heart than sharing his love to the lost souls [Matt. 24:14] and helping the physically poor [Deut.15:1-18].

Visiting the Orphans

When I returned to Kenya on June 12^th, 2009 after a visit to the United States, my first priority was to visit the children in Thika and Tharaka. These are the bulk of the children that we have put on our website seeking support for them.

The councilor at Makongeni ward in Thika where we fed 3,500 children in January, 2009, anticipated that some of the children we took pictures of would have gotten some supporters. These children think that once their pictures are taken, they have gotten help already.

Kiganjo Elementary School

With 1,800 Starving Children

This elementary school has 1,800 children who come from the surrounding slums of the Kijanjo estate of Makongeni ward. Most of the children come to school looking for something to eat. School is the only place where they are likely to get fed.

Most of the children are malnourished, and almost too weak to walk to school. Some of them are taken in by concerned strangers after their parents have either died or abandoned them because of the parents’ inability to provide food for them. The Government and Thika leadership try to help the school.

The teachers do not even know how to help, as the small ones are crying because they are hungry. The school also depends on well wishers apart from Government for the school feeding program.

Two pounds of corn flour will feed two children for four days by giving them porridge at 10:00 A.M per day. Corn flour is sold in two pound packets for slightly over $1.

One hundred dollars will buy 200 pounds of corn flour that can be used to feed the 1,800 children one meal a day for two weeks. This could be only meal they can hope for in their lives. Donations sent to RAHMI will reach these dying children at Kiganjo elementary school, just as RAHMI fed them on January 3^rd, 2009.

Feeding Elementary School Children in Tharaka

Tharaka District is one of the driest places in Kenya, where we fed 140,000 village-starving-people in April, 2009 [see Rahmi.org]. This rural school system has very limited concerned people to help – except for the Government - because it’s in the bush. We have been ministering to these children and have bought school uniforms for many of them in 2008 [see rahmi.org].

The April, 2009 rains helped the subsistence farmers to get food, but only when the crop was in the farm. The farmers ate everything as it was harvested. The subsistence farms are about one to two acres, which hardly produce food to sustain a seven member family for three months. There is a cycle of famine after every three months.

By the end of June, 2009 the farms were empty and children from the poorest families were not going to school because of lack of food. Unlike the Kiganjo slum school, which is within walking distance, The Tharaka children walk about five to seven miles to school.

Between 2007 and 2008 we identified twenty schools, and out of the twenty schools, we selected five poorest children who have no parents. We bought uniforms for one hundred children. These children are among thousands that are threatened with starvation in the Tharaka school system. The scenario is that the school cannot help in feeding because there is no money for food. The rural school children are in more danger of starving to death than the slum children.

The most affected schools are those in the bush areas of Kamarandi and Kamanyaki locations. There are over fifteen schools, each with an average of 300 children. That is a  total is about four thousand, five hundred children who are in desperate need of help.

Helping these poorest children would mean that any donation in the form of money could be used to buy corn flour to give to the schools. This will target the children who are not going to school due to lack of food. If flour is available, the children will go to school to receive food, and at the same time, they will learn.

RAHMI greatly desires not only to feed the starving children but also start an orphanage in Tharaka where the poorest children could be fed and have the opportunity to learn. The cost of corn flour in the rural areas is cheaper because the Government subsidizes the prices. Two pounds of corn is less than a dollar ($.075). 200 pounds will feed 2,000 children for two weeks with one meal a day.

Please help these starving children.  Your tax deductable gift will go toward buying the life giving food that is needed to sustain these children.  Any donations can be given at www.Rahmi.org or by mailing to 182 Cotton Circle, Vincent, Alabama.  Please note what the donation is for.  RAHMI – Revival and Harvest Ministry International – is a nonprofit 501(c) 3 organization.

Hundreds of thousands slum children in Kenyan cities have never had any Christmas Party in their life.  It has become RAHMI’s tradition since 2006 to give a Christmas party to the orphans/neediest children in the Kenyan slums.  In the year 2006/2007, we hosted Christmas parties in the following areas:

·         On December, 27^th, 2006, we fed 1000 children in Kibera slums of Nairobi.

·         On January 6^th, 2007, we fed 1000 children in the Kiseriani Slum of Nairobi

·         In December, 2007, we did not feed children because of the Country’s general election violence.

In the year 2008/2009, we had parties in the following areas:

·         December 27^th, 2008, we fed 1,500 children in Kiseriani slum of Nairobi, Kenya

·         January 3^rd, 2009, we fed 3,500 children in Kiganjo slum of Thika city, Kenya

·         January 18, 2009, we feed  300 children in Runda slum of Nairobi, Kenya

·         January 20^th, 2009, we feed 420 children in Nkubu, Meru Kenya

·         In January 21^st, 2009, we bought school uniform and fed 50 children in Tunyai, Kenya

·         Samaritan Services through feeding orphan children in the Kenyan slums has become RAHMI passion during the Christmas holidays.

Feeding the dying Kenyan village people

For a space of two years—since 2007 to 2008—there was a total crop failure and livestock dyed by tens of thousands in the arid areas of Kenya. The arid areas of Kenya make up to 60% of the Kenyan area, and supports 60% of the country’s population.  Toward the end of 2008, the Government declared the famine a national disaster. The cry of the people in the arid and semi-arid regions of Kenya became unbearable and it touched the core of everyone.  RAHMI stopped all other engagements and moved in to feed the dying people in the villages.

Aaron and Bancy and other few leaders of RAHMI went into the villages to identify the neediest families.  After two weeks survey of walking in the dry areas that covered almost seventy miles, we Identified 20,000 of the neediest families. Each family had an average of seven members with the total being approximately one hundred and forty thousand people. 

We used all the money we had and bought 160,000 pounds of grain corn. We distributed it to the dying people from April, 3^rd to April, 10, 2009. Each family received 8 pounds, which could last them a week feeding on corn flour porridge. This was the largest humanitarian service RAHMI has ever done and it made a difference to the dying people. We made an appeal to our support partners to give just a dollar for a child for Christmas party. Because of generous giving of the partners, we were able to feed the dying people as well. Thank you Partners for feeding the hungry.

Dr. Aaron K. Matti, D.Min., Ph.D. is the founder and Executive Director of RAHMI – Revival And Harvest Ministry International - a 501(C 3) nonprofit organization that is dedicated to meeting the holistic needs of humanity in Kenya and Africa. Learn more about RAHMI through its website: Rahmi.org.