Hauwa & Danjuma

See the difference between Hauwa and Danjuma’s eyes! Please help to protect children like Danjuma from the devastating effects of River Blindness. Your gift will be multiplied x7! “…invite the poor, the maimed, the disabled, the blind, and you will be blessed…” – Jesus, Luke 14:13-14 Jesus’ words in Luke 14 are calling us to seek […]

Masu

“I will guide you in the way of wisdom and I will lead you in upright paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered, and when you run, you will not stumble.” – Proverbs 4:11-12 Masu is an amazing man. No wonder his children want to be just like him. Except for the […]

Mairige & Wajir

Mairige, Wajir’s great-aunt, is totally and irreversibly blind. She believed this happened because a snake spat venom in her eyes, when she was working in the fields in Nigeria. The truth is so much worse. This 70-year old great-aunt talks about unbearable pain, intolerable itching… and then her eyes died. The truth is, it was […]

Fortunat & Dibelyi

Fortunat was once a woodsman who supported his family by cutting boards beside a river, where black flies often bit him. Like New Zealanders and our mosquitoes, Fortunat thought the flies were just a nuisance, but they were deadly. The flies infected him with parasitic worms, which bred in vast numbers beneath his skin. “Lumps […]