Kate - Day 1 at Haven of Hope
Kate - almost two years later, visiting HOH for our annual reunion
I got the call the night before that there was an abandoned three month old baby for us to pick up from the government children's home. Jackie and I left the morning of September 1st, 2009 to go get our hair cut (reminder, again, courtesy of Facebook) and then to get little Kate. Kate was a chubby little beauty with lots of soft curls. She was the sweetest little baby ever! As Jackie dubbed her, she was "the easy one," for her first year at least!
beautiful Baby Kate, hours after we got her, looking like a China doll
Jackie feeding Kate during our shopping stop before going back to the baby house in Ngong
Oh, what a beautiful girl we were blessed to have! Kate lived with us for 15 months before returning to her mother. (Click on the tag of her name below to read the past posts of Kate's story. Short story: she was not abandoned by her mother, but was taken to the police and reported as "abandoned" by her biological father who claimed not to know her.) Her mother worked very hard to prepare herself to take Kate back into her home. She is a wonderful mother who loves her baby so very much and tries very hard to provide for her. She changed her name to "Kate" (or Cate), the name we had given her, and still brings her back to the baby house - even all the way in Nakuru - to visit her friends and aunties.
Shortly before I left Kenya, I got a call that their house burned down. They lived in a stretch plot of several connected homes (rows of single rooms, actually) that caught fire. They lost everything. We were able to help them relocate to their rural home and set up a new house there. They are recovering, doing well, and even returned to the HOH reunion in August.
Two years later....THIS is another HOH success story ~ the reason we are here. I am so blessed to be a part of what God is doing in the lives of babies in need.
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