Emmanuel

Our team visited a second home in the Twiyubake Working Group where Emmanuel and his younger brother shared their story. (To understand Twiyubake working group see that blog entry) Their parents died of HIV Aids in 2006 when he was 13 years old and his brother Jeride was a toddler. He dropped out of school and had to work for others for just a bit of food. They were starving and barely surviving for the past 6 years.

One of the first steps with ZOE is to share their feelings and dreams by drawing stories. He was so very sad about the death of his parents and that they left him hopeless. He is angry about the child abuse, the violence he sees towards many orphans. Now with ZOE he likes to pray and and have food to eat with his brother.

He dreams of having a new house and a cow. Currently he is renting a house and asked another boy and his sister to share their house. This way the second house can be rented for income. They will eventually farm or start a business.

Emmanuel's principle is "to love God and my neighbor."