 You're just tuning in to White 5-4. It's okay, it's okay. What you just missed is a couple of stories that we read from the newspaper, but I think you can catch that on our White 5-4 channel on YouTube because we are just lit. I just told you, we are lit. Onzawe kuna bari deyaki nana manyeshewa. Okay, manyeshewa toki dogo. I had a very embarrassing experience this morning, but I don't think I want to tell it right now. But I'm emotional. Hashtag is why the morning minute we're about or at color me valence time. It's about that time rather for strength of a woman. Last week's strength of a woman was a man, but we have been trying to uplift the boy child. So say it to your mama, no, no, no. We are just uplifting boy child. Are we together? Hashtag is why the morning. So let me allow the phenomenal woman to introduce herself. Good morning. Good morning to you. How are you? Fine, thank you. You look fantastic. Thank you. You look beautiful. More than you. The way you have the cutting and I like it and then the dress, then even the jacket. You are so very smart. But I'm wondering, aren't you feeling cold? You are not so much. The studio has it. Yeah, but when you get outside there, you will regret. But I know you have a jersey somewhere. Yes. Okay. I can't prepare. More than problems require more than solutions. Yes. Please introduce yourself. My name is Florence Wombuimuange. Florence is a married woman with three biological children and 42 adopted ones. I run a rescue center called Destiny Rescue Center. It is in Embakasi sub county, a place called Nazra Gardens Estate. Currently I have 42 children. It is a mixture of destiny children and teenage mothers. Florence is married. I'm a happy woman. And I love what I do. It shows though. Yeah, I love what I do. I have a question. Just a very off topic. We have a question on our Facebook page. Please go there to it for four things. We are asking why do people break promises? Or why do people make promises and then break them? I don't know. I just read the comments. People at Tehu make promises. They are liars. They are what? But help me understand. Isn't just even marriage a promise? Promise before God and witnesses and the person you get in marriage to. Help me understand. Are all promises meant to be broken? No, a promise is not meant to be broken. I think it's just that people do not propose to keep their promises. They're not very intentional. They're not very intentional. Because as much as you face challenges, you're supposed to deal with the challenges, not with the promise. You're supposed to overcome the challenges so that you can be able to keep your promise. So people need to be committed, intentional so that you can be able to keep promises because some of them are very hard to keep but you made a vow. Okay, so the problem is not with the promise. I think maybe the problem is we make promises assuming there will never be a challenge. Yes. There will never be hindrances along the way. You just think you make a promise and then it continues like that. Effortlessly. Effortlessly. But you need to realize that there are people who are fighting that promise or rather your destiny. You know your promise can very easily, the promises can very easily lead you to your destiny. So you need to be intentional. You need to know and be ready for whatever comes so that you can fight to be called a promise keeper. Yes. I like that, that's different. But I'm thinking maybe we should have you on another segment sometime. That wisdom should be spread. I'm not going to nagani my friends. Yeah, that what you just said has resonated. I will keep it. Anyway, now that we're talking about destiny please tell me how you figured out what point in your life did you realize that destiny was to have this center? I think I can say it was from a very early age because during my... When I was a young girl, no, I'm a nude woman, yeah? No, you're not. I am. You're not. Stop it. I have continued. Okay. I started getting connected to children that have issues in their lives. For example, even in school I could tell the children who do not have anything to eat. When I went to secondary school, I could know the children who did not have probably enough soap. And again, I think I also attract a children or people who need a shoulder to rein on. So I can say that my life revolves around children because I think by the time I was in class 7 I was a Sunday school teacher. Wow. Yes. I was a Sunday school teacher. I used to do a lot. I used to assist a lot. And then even in class I used to be a person who wants to volunteer to do things. Yes. And I like helping. What's in it for you? Because apparently in this life someone must get something from doing something. Fulfillment. Wow. Yes. That's nothing tangible at all. It is to me. Really? Because when I see a child that I have rescued smile and let me give an example of a rescued child who is 2 days. Wow. And then now he is 7 years. It gives me a lot of fulfilment. Just to see that child has a life, has a future and he has hope as young as he is. Now to my other part what I do I rescue teenage mothers. When I rescue a teenage mother who is 10 with a kid and this child comes these are two children and we walk, she is able now to love the child, take care of the child. I think even if you would pay me it will not give me the fulfilment than to see the joy in this child's heart. And that the child has taken a path that will change her destiny. What does day to day running of the centre look like? Why is the word hectic? Not really. But it is because you realise that after all we are dealing with two children. So the mother needs to be parented as she parents. And she's parenting at a very tender age whereby she doesn't even she has not even been parented probably half way of her life. So it's a word that she's very new to very challenging and now you have to take this child holistically because you have to deal with her emotions also. These children are mostly in a lot of pain because it's a culture okay, most of the teenage mothers are from the mazai culture. So they go through FGM when they are very young. So they have not forgotten about the pain of the FGM. Now they are married and they are already mothers. So whereby when we wake up we have chose like now that they are not in school but most of them is to teach them how to parent these children and to love the children because I don't think there is a child who is 12, 11, 10 years old who will have that love for that baby and it's a baby that they didn't want. It's a forced thing. So most of them have no value for those children and we have to make sure that they mother these children with love because as much as they will mother them with a lot of rejection the children will experience rejection in their lives. So we have to be very positive with these girls. We do a lot of counseling to them, we do a lot of talking and I think bottom life is just give them love. Give them love, love, love because it's very, very challenging to have a child when you 10 years. It's very challenging. Honesty, I think it's challenging to have a child period seeing as how she jaza, I don't know, I just hear. Tell me, isn't it difficult to give something that you don't have that we would expect them to be this is before they've come to you? Is this much no or just? I don't know, I think my voice is deciding to go somewhere. Yes, so it must be very difficult to be expected to raise a child when you yourself have not actually been raised, you just grew. Yeah, it is. So it's almost, it sounds me impossible to tell me to love something well I have no love in me. How do I give what I don't have? Aha, now that is where I said you have to parent the mother. You have to, because it's not that they don't have that love it's only that it was shattered when things were done in a very negative way in their lives. So you can resurrect that love in them. And there is something that is so, I think it's psychological because this child grew in this girl and there is an attachment that is not just because it's a child. There is an attachment, I call it a divine attachment because a child is a gift from God. So there is a divine attachment between the child and the mother. So you only need to be positive, you only need to be intentional that you're going to help this child connect to that baby because it's, they realize that actually I tell them we don't have a choice, we have to love this child. We have to, you have to mother this child. So you teach them how to be a mother. Now how you can theoretically and then the rest it will come from within. So it is something that you need to touch in the life of this child. You need to touch the inner being. You need to touch that, you need to awaken and walk with this child so that the pain of how the short life has turned to be that she will see that something positive. Someone who's 10 years old has lived three lives. Eh, there's some circumstances I can't imagine myself in but there's someone who's so much younger than me and who's braving it. Yes, yes. We celebrate you today. So how are you? You can be our woman. Woman crush Wednesday. Aha. Okay. It's a thing. Yeah. Even as a hashtag. Aha. All right. So tell me about you mentioned someone that you saved two days of age. Which is wow. Would you like to tell me that story? Like what happened? Where did you find this child? The child was dumped in a dump site and I think it's the street boys who lived near the dump site that saved the baby. They went and called a woman in a nearby slum and they told him, kuna mtupapalena, tuji kama amekufa. So the woman rushed there, found the baby, wrapped, it was raining because I think it was in April. Oh. So the woman took the baby, went and changed and a very funny story because whatever is, she's a not woman. She didn't have any baby clothes. So whatever was in the house is what she wrapped the baby in and then gave the baby some little milk and took the baby to the police station. The police station to the hospital. Between the police and the hospital that is when I was called. Yes. Oh, you're like a reference. Yeah. Oh, I was imagining there's a lot of red tape when people run away or you find vulnerable children when you now want to take care of them. There's no red tape. There's no one who gives you heartache, headaches. Did you have to sign what? You have to do what? No, there is a process. What is the process? It has to be followed because you realize this woman, you take the child to the police station, you've given a no bee number, then you take the child to the hospital, then to the children's office or to the chief or any administration office. But the child will end up in the children's office because that is the department that takes care of children. Yeah, so there is a process that has to be followed but the immediate thing is to save this life and you realize that sometimes you need to save life following the protocols. But when you rescue a child, I think we organize the police station with the condition of the child then to the hospital so that now you can be told this child is there is no problem if he needs to be checked because there is nothing, nothing you know about this child and like when you rescue a need fund there is a lot of things that need to be checked. So you follow the process depending on the circumstance because if you rescue a child who is probably battered you will not, but as much as you need to go to the police station which is the thing you're supposed to do initially it is easier for you to go to the police station so that now you can be refund from the police station. Oh, yes. I did not know our system was so elaborate I'm quite surprised. Okay, seven years later, how is this child faring on now? A very handsome baby boy, a very happy child. So that's why I told you for me it is fulfilment. If I remember the way I picked that child and I see him today, I see a walking miracle. Yes. I hope he has no memory, no recollection of being left. He was two days. Good, good. Does he ask where are my parents, where am I from? What are the answers that you give? Now this child knows nobody else. Oh, so you're basically mum? Yes, I'm basically mum. And here you have two children. Yes, but we have to walk a journey whereby we are going to discuss what happened. Because number one, if he gets to know from somebody else, it will be told in the wrong way. And this child might be wounded. So you have to prepare this child in a way that you're not going to hurt his feelings. You're going to let him know the truth that he may even be able to accept himself. So it's a process because you don't just drop the bombshell kuleyenda hivi. You have to keep seeing whether this child is ready. And I must confess that sometimes I also need a counselor because it's not also very easy for me to break such news. So I need to be prepared also because if it turns out negative, I also need somebody to work with me. So it's a place whereby you cannot do everything on your own. You have to network. You have three biological children? Yes. Do they support your cause? Very much. Yeah? How? The most important thing is that my family supports what I do and they love what I do. So that makes it very, very easy for me to do what I'm doing because you will find all these children probably in my house. We just feel that they need to come and celebrate Christmas with us. Oh. Yes. One another is a show show. One can eat Christmas and even financial support. Then the other thing is the freedom that my husband has given me that I can do what I am doing without fanya hi, unafanya hi. He has given me freedom to do what I am doing. And that makes it very, very easy because I don't have to be worried that I'm going home at nine and I have come from the children's home. I have actually, I can even very easily call me. Nmema liza bhenya liko unafanya kwa muni peak. So the support from my family is very important to me because it makes my heart and my work very easy. Probably even if I may not look at the financial support, that freedom in accepting what I am doing, accepting these children to my children as their brothers and sisters and to my husband as his children, it gives me a lot of joy. So I want to tell them that I appreciate them, I love them because of holding my hands. That was a family in it in heaven. Yes. Like your cause and then all that came and then you had children who also just are in line with the cause. And actually not only by family, even my other family members, like my parents, they are both alive. Wow. They love what I do. They love the children. Even my aunties, my cousins, there is a group that has really appreciated what I am doing. So it now becomes a big family that I may not be like now if I want to go home, I may not have to tell my dad I'm going home. I only need to let him know I'm going home with these children. It's not that if I don't tell him I won't go, but he will not give me a hard time. He really appreciates what I am doing. And so does my mum. And they call them Shushu and Wuka. Wow. I'd like to see a picture of Christmas in your household. It sounds like a lot of fun. A lot of fun. Children running around everywhere. Sometimes they want to sleep and they carry their mattresses. You know, I don't have that kind of mattresses. They carry their mattresses and we spread them everywhere. And then my son has a problem because the boys have to put up in his room. But we do it. It's only for a short time. He has to give them joy and let them feel appreciated so that they don't feel that they belong in a certain place. They need also to be exposed. Yes. My favourite thing about everything you're doing is you're giving them hope. You're loving someone who maybe does not even understand the concept of love. The first time I encountered pure love and it was not from my immediate family, my nuclear family. I was so surprised. Like, what's wrong with you? Why are you being so nice to me? What do you want? Hey, it surprised me. So I think in turn sometimes I feel like I must give back. I must give back some of the love that was given to me. It was given to me for no reason. They did not ask anything from me. They just loved me and thank you for doing that. So I do hear we have a couple of pictures from or rather of the rescue centre. So maybe if you can take a look at that. Remember it's at WTF on Facebook, WTF on Twitter. Hashtag is why in the morning. If I may ask, because it's boggling my mind a little bit, how do you financially keep the rescue centre afloat? Aha, a good question. Because we rely on well wishes. We rely on well wishes and I must say that it's God who commands people to come. Sometimes they come when you're not expecting. So our work is supported by well wishes and that is how we run and we are able to keep these children going. What are we looking at over here? This was a medical camp. Some doctors from Kenyatta National Hospital volunteered to come and do a medical checkup for our children. It was very interesting. It was very good for me because I got to know their health and most of them were dentists. But they also did a general checkup. And then we have a group that does mentorship on mental health. During this time of Covid, I realised that these children are one. They were very disappointed because their dreams looked like nili kwa ni me pata mahalipa kusolfa sasa imeka tizwa. And to the teenage mothers especially, they thought that they will be taken back to their homes because that was the directive from the government. But again, even if we are taking those children, we need to know where we are taking them. So emotionally they went down. And even being in a place where there was no movement, no visitors, nothing. So we were just in the centre. So I realised that they needed some encouragement more than what I give. So that is what I when I met these guys from mental health Kenya and they are doing a lot of, they are still working with the children. So even the counselling part of it because they have counsellors in them. They teach them skills, they talk to them and it really changed their minds, their whole life according to the way they were looking at the Covid-19 issue. And then they get a reassurance that you are not going back and you will still go back to school. I like that. Yes. And though mental health is important, we will get back to that. What are we looking at here now? Now these are probably the donations that we get from different people. You can see they look at it holistically. They will bring food, they will bring milk, they will bring farm produce, clothes and diapers for the young babies. So we have a lot, we receive a lot from apart from the financial debt we also receive in kind. Yes. This is a very important kind of kind. Yes. Because this helps us to be able to feed these children very well. The... You know, kuleta wamboga, kuleta we skuma, kuleta we karot, ulena leta nyama. So you see we are able to keep the balance tight for these children. And then the clothes, they are... Sometimes we even have clothes that we share with other institutions. Tatas? Clothes, even food. Sometimes we have a lot of food. Sometimes we have a lot of food and we need... Yes. Yani, you're being blessed double, double until it is overflowing. You're even giving... I have been distributing food during this time of COVID. What? Yes, in kajiyado and even in Nairobi. To widows, the nidi families, the teenage mothers. Because even in Nairobi we have teenage mothers that are living with their parents. And I realize that nise metu hivi, they are burdened because tunakulena umetuleta yamungine. So watawa wanahi taji watu wene wanawa encourage even encouraging the parents. Uyumstana asi yole. We kama tuna eza murudisha shule. Wacha aso me kwanza alafu wata wole wa badai. Atatu hatu endangi atu uyuki jana. Aa, we don't even go there. I just want this girl to go back to school. And then I distribute sanitari towels. As important? Yes, very, very important. Because I've realized it's a very... it's a commodity that is very important. Nga wengine moho hawa pati. Especially when I go to kajiyado.