 Haz yes None of ours men said if you want to go fast go alone, but if you want to go far, go with others and my thoughts on theutt Mana is a ministry or an organization that works with the churches. And so our motto is serving the church reaching the world. I found myself in the slums of Kibera. Again, I was looking for work to do because here is someone coming from poverty background and I'm trying to figure out if there is anything I can do to be able to help my family come out of poverty. And one of the things I could do was to work. And I figured out what kind of a job I could do. And I realized that I had no place in the corporate field because I had no train for any career. So the only work I could access was to go to construction companies and do some handwork as a helper there. So I did that work in Nairobi for a lot of time. And staying in Kibera slums God allowed me to experience the life in Kibera. He also allowed me to meet my better half, my wife in the slums. We got married and our first two children were born in the slums of Kibera. I could not even afford a clinic or a place where my wife could go get delivered. So the two children were born in my house with the help of the people that would come in my house and help her. And so we continued to trust God because in my heart I knew that I had a great destiny and I knew that God was with me. And I knew that if God is with you then anything can happen. So I stayed in the slums for quite some time. And for seven years staying in Kibera slums, getting married there, having my two children there. Then when God opened a door for me to get out of the slums I trained. I actually went to a printing company. And I went there as a cleaner and as a cook. So I was preparing tea for the staffs. And because I knew where I was coming from I wanted to learn. They could not allow me to learn so I wanted to learn indirectly. So as I was preparing tea and cleaning I was also making sure I'm keen to learn how I can operate the printing machines and all that. So from that I fortunately became a printing machine operator. So besides the work that I am doing I am also a publisher. I am a printing machine operator, I am a printer. So I started working as a printer and God enabled me to have more money that would allow me to come out of the slums of Kibera and be able to take a little better of my family. So when I came out of that place, went to Madare, got a more spacious house. Still it is just one room but spacious. God spoke to me and God said to me that Maurice the reason I allowed you to stay in the slums and watch your children cry for food and you can't afford it. The reason I allowed you to watch your children walk the slums without clothes and stay in a box world house and without furniture all that life I allowed you because I was creating a ministry inside of you that I would eventually use to help rescue the same people who would be in the slums and going through what I allowed you to go through. And one of them was to feed the hungry families in the slums and also to clothe them and to provide education. And back then in the village, here in the village I happened to be there when my grandmother and grandfather was still alive. So when my grandfather died, God allowed me to see what my grandmother had to go through including being forced to get inherited by another man that she didn't know. And that is something that I didn't like because my father allowed me to stay with my grandmother and as I was growing up, my grandmother was the most precious thing I had in this life. I loved her so much and I watched people including my father who was a pastor then asking me to leave my grandmother alone even though she was very old and she could not do things for herself because they believed if I stay with my grandmother when she has lost the husband then I might die because traditionally and culturally a widow is considered an outcast. I'm a team leader in the widow's department and basically what they do on a daily basis they go to a widow's home where they'll share the word of God with them they also pray with the widow after that they will do their house chores for the widows and for the elderly widows who cannot wash themselves we normally wash them, wash the dishes, do the laundry and many more after that we'll pray and go to the next door. Toward our first destination, we meet this humble widow who in kindness takes us through her life kumago dutote, kwa mwawea gini fina reyo bangeno na betu kwa wadigi wadigi na wadigi na wadigi na sebetu kwa manwa kujukubru kwa da laka anu gini fina wuchial niradege wede sebetu kwa gishida shida da laka kwa sebetu kwa kwa yaka manwa sebetu kwa lame niya sae niya kuchupu dichimaka wono ma poka niya sae utimana nguono ma kora poka uchunga agon ngeye oba niya sae utimana mdugum mdugumu uchunga niya kadebe niya oka niya sae deo kote mori anu dano kudanyal umiago eru kama na mdugumu kenda mor ae lo dichimaka wono amor kabisa ago eru kama na kenda gundu eru kama na mdugumu niya sae mdugumu mdugumu kama na mdugumu mdugumu bini mechkuru kwa sababu niya sae hwa mdugumu niya sae mdugumu mdugumu bini mechkuru kwa sababu kwa sababu na mdugumu kwa sababu hwa mdugumu kwa sababu We had a lot of children. We were 18 in Namba. And of course some passed on, but being the first born in that family, there was always a challenge growing up in a poverty stricken family. So education was not something that I could get because my parents were more concerned about putting a meal on the table versus education. So I couldn't go to school to the level I wanted. I couldn't go beyond primary school. And I really wanted somebody to help me to get the education. So when my hopes for continuing or pursuing education was dashed, I went to Muroni to start working on the sugarcane plantation. I did that work for some time because that is the only work I could have done without papers. We have ten good permanent classrooms. We have a kitchen. We have enough washrooms for the children and even the facilities for washing hands. As we know we have so many diseases that can affect these children. So we tend to prevent them before they are attacked with these diseases. We are being treated well. We are given a super lunch. As for now you can see the children are being served well. They are happy as you can see around. They are good kids. They work hard in class. They perform and we really love them. Kamaana is a nice facility. It helps many pupils. We are about 430 in this institution. So far we have 15 teachers who help us a lot. They are like our parents and we consider them to be our parents. We are being given some pieces of advice that makes us be disciplined. I would like this time to break the record of Kenya certificate of primary education in Maana with 400 and above marks. Maana has an awareness that helps pupils with sanitary towels after every month because not everybody is capable. In our office we have some extra sanitary towels in case a girl starts menstruating in school. So she must have that sanitary towel and the madam teachers always give us those extra ones to take at home. Because some parents are not capable and as a girl it is very embarrassing for you to start menstruating in school. So the teachers always help us to feel comfortable when we are in class. In this school we bring up these children. We bring them up at the faith. They are faith. It's a faith based organization. My expectations, I know I will pass the examination. I can describe our school, the best school ever I have seen. Any parent that wishes to find a good place to bring his or her child, let her or him bring the child at Maana Academy. I began in just one mad world hall. I partitioned in with maths and I started with about 37 children. And people in the community, my neighbors, they went to the minister of education and they said, go look at someone, Maurice. He is collecting, gathering our children and giving out porridge to make money and nothing is going on there. So I started to get calls like, what are you doing there? This is a school, I'm trying to offer education to these children. They can't go to school, even to those at the school. The people coming and saying we are not, we are using this shed. They cannot give what I'm giving to these children. So we left it at that. We started to grow, started to build some Mabati classrooms. They again went and said, when we were growing, they again went to the minister of education and said, hey, you know this is someone's personal property. If this guy wakes up and say, I don't want, I'm closing the school, he will close it. So we are not going to allow Maana Academy to kill our public school because people are running from the public school to that school. So we have to kill Maana Academy. So the director of education sub county asked this guy, how did Maana perform? And they say it is, it is the first in the zone out of 23 school, Maana is number one. And what about the school that Maana is killing? It is the last one in the zone. And then he told them that what you are going to do, we will help you to fight. But before we start that war, even us as a sub county education office, what makes us proud is when our zone performs because we are also competing with other zones. So now you are telling me to kill what is making me proud because it is through their marks that we are becoming a talk. So what you are going to do is to help this school to pull up when Maana comes down and this school is at the top. I will have a ground, level ground where I can say, you have to leave this school. I will just like to congratulate him for bringing such a good school for us to learn. And I would like to say to him credit on his forehead. Sometimes while joining on, we get to a point and feel hopeless, but wait for it. Most is in Jesus or walk straight to your door. My parents, they are one of the people that have motivated me. As I was growing, I saw them as ministers of the gospel because my dad died as a bishop. And I saw him do things for God. Even when he had nothing, he still would have gone out and served God with everything that he had. I watched them teachers to live for God even in poverty. Because I said yes, I started to see God cause the ministry to grow. He started to send people to me that I never knew. And he started to use the people who came to me when they go back. He started to use them to speak on my behalf. All over the world, in Europe, in America, they started to speak on my behalf. They started to say, if there is anyone you can trust in Africa, it is someone called Maurice. So I am confident in what I do because I know I have a backing, heavenly backing. As long as I have an heavenly backing, I am good to go and keep soldiering on. Dr Maurice has got a heart that bleeds for the needy and vulnerable and can trust in his own works but also believes in supporting other organizations.