Everyday We are Planting New Dreams

Beatrice Ngendo is a single grandmother.  She lives with her 12 grandchildren in Mathare Valley.  Her children and their spouses have all died of AIDS.  Now the grandchildren only have their grandmother to take care of them.  Beatrice did not sit down feeling sorry for her self.  She said to herself: “I now have to work twice as hard as other mothers in Mathare Valley to feed and educate 12 children.” 

 

Beatrice heard about Jamii Bora and joined as a member in 2000.  She now has three successful businesses in Mathare Valley: a grocery store, butchery, a restaurant and a stone house which allows her to rent out rooms. Her grand children are in school and the oldest has just graduated as a qualified nurse and has joined the staff in Jamii Bora’s out patient clinic in Mathare. Beatrice has been a model for many. Anyone that has met her will never talk about problems again but what they can do to follow Beatrice’s example.