Mamma Mary's New Home

You can read about how we first met Mamma Mary in an old post…June . Well, since then her house had completely fallen in due to the heavy rains.

Pastor Joseph (one of the Okello brothers) had been going to check on her and found her early one morning, still asleep OUTSIDE her house. Even before it fell in she was afraid of it doing so, so she slept outside. When Joseph realized that the people we thought were following up on getting the house built were not doing so, he called Jared. That was last Tuesday. By Sunday we were in Ahero (outside Kisumu City) buying materials. By Monday the crew had started building! It doesn’t take long to build the frame of a house.

She has resorted to setting up house outside under a tree.

After the frame is build and roof put on, it becomes the women’s job to mud the walls. That is done with dirt and manure and is a process that takes several weeks. It is done in layers and each has to dry before applying the next.

But, she now has a roof over her head! She is so very grateful! Thank you for helping to make this possible. We paid 3/4 of the total cost.