Sharon
Guest writer
My Name is Sharon. I am 16 years old now and am in tenth grade. I live in an orphanage called
Hope Center in Kenya, Migori District. I was brought up in a family of four children where we
have three boys and one girl. And that is how we were left.
Hope Center has impacted my life since I joined in the year 2008 when I was in sixth grade.
Even though I had some problems, God was with me and it was God’s mercy and grace for me to
find myself at the orphanage. Since I joined Hope Center things have changed in my life, and I
am thankful to God for blessing me with a sponsor from America who is giving me support.
Living Hope has truly impacted my life in many ways. It has provided me with materials for
my education from sixth grade up until now. It has also provided basic needs to me. What I
like most about Living Hope is that it has helped me to be in the level that I could not be before,
because I have been educated. It has helped many people, not only me, so that they are able to
do the best in their lives.
The staff at the orphanage has really prepared me for the coming future because they are doing
their best to ensure that I have the material that I need in my education, and I can just see that my
dream is going to come true. I would like to be a journalist or broadcaster in Kenya, and through
the support they are providing to me, it can make me find myself in that stage.
Before I came to Living Hope, my life was not good and I had a lot of problems after the death
of my parents. I lost both parents in 2000, and I was left with my guardian to take care of me.
Even though she was trying to do her best, I still felt like there was no future or hope for me. But
the Bible encourages us that where there is no way, God can make a way, and my God made for
me the way, and now I find myself in this orphanage. Glory be to God.
It was painful to me when our best friends from ISF went back to America, and even to say bye
to them was something painful in my heart. Why do I say so? Because the team that came from
America really loved us and were like brothers and sisters to us. I was full with tears of sorrow
the day they were going back but it was something that cannot be altered.
Even though they left us, they were friendly to each other and they really did a good job of
playing soccer with us and telling stories together. We really enjoyed their visit. We will still
remember them in our hearts, more so the friend of mine Jessica, and that is all about me.
