Below are just a few of the many testimonies we receive about lives being impacted and transformed by the Micro-Loan Ministry of Heaven’s Family.
On a busy street corner in the center of Kitale, Kenya, I met Christine Lukanda, wife, mother of two teens, and owner of a colorful fruit stand. Her tables hold small mountains of mangoes, bananas, oranges, lemons and other locally grown fruits and veggies.
Everywhere I traveled in Kenya, I witnessed small economic miracles that have changed the lives of widows who were once desperately poor. All have been helped though Heaven's Family micro-loans, which have enabled them to lift themselves to self-sufficiency through their own enterprising small businesses.
Duncan Owino had a new wife and no job—hardly a good way to begin a marriage. In Nakuru, Kenya, however, where Duncan lives, such a plight is not uncommon. Poverty and unemployment are endemic there, but neither prevent young men and women from marrying.
For a Discovery Channel adventurer like myself, it was an Everest moment. We were the first foreigners to ever visit Zatual, a remote and primitive village strung high along a mountain ridge in Chin State, Myanmar. Zatual's inhabitants are all members of a small tribal group called the Zangiat, who speak their own distinctive language.
"If I kill myself, my grief will be over...but what will happen to my six children?" After the death of Jane Ocheng's husband, an emotional battle raged within her. The family's sole breadwinner was gone, snatched from life by an unknown illness. Survival as a widow with six children in rural Kenya was a bleak prospect.
She was never voted "most likely to succeed" by her high school classmates. In fact, by the time she completed her high school education, Beth Wanjiru Ngugi was almost 22 years old. Her secondary education had been delayed due to her father's death from cancer when she was 14. When a poor breadwinner dies in Kenya, that is often the end of his children's hope for an education.
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