Rehema Ministries/dba In Step Foundation, Kenya

Arrived November 2008, Jenny was a very bright 3-year-old who could tell you exactly what happened to her. She and her aunt were walking down a long rural road when the aunt told her they were going to play a game. She told Jenny to walk straight ahead as fast as she could without stopping and without turning around to look back. Nobody knows how long or how far Jenny walked before an old man found her and took her into his home. She knows the first names of her parents, but she doesn’t know where she is from. Efforts to trace them have been unsuccessful.

Arrived April 2008, Joy was born April 1st at the District Hospital. Her mother immediately ran away. It is beginning to be a familiar story that several of our kids share. The hospital kept her for one week, hoping the mom would have a change of heart and come back for her. Joy is very healthy, bigger and stronger than most children when they arrive. She took to the bottle immediately, as if she had been taking it since day one.

Arrived November 2008, Michelle came to us she was approximately 10 months old and cute as can be. She seemed very healthy and obviously used to being held, so it seemed strange that she was dumped off in a maize field. A farmer found her one morning sitting in the field, crying.

Arrivied September 2008, Ruth was approximately a week old when we were called to pick her up in. When we got home, one of the workers asked if she had a name and announced that her name would be Ruth (Carla calls her Baby Ruth, which no one but Jeff and her knows is funny). “My little chocolate Baby Ruth!” She was a beautiful baby! She looked to be healthy and full term. She was abandoned in one of the IDP (internally displaced people) camps during the post-election violence.