 visitors to humanity, is equivalent to serving God. It includes acts of kindness, compassion and selflessness toward others. Mesta and Mrs. Wajwao professionalany a community-based organization for persons with disabilities Correct and understand this well and hear it. I am a wife to my husband, J. Friwanjo, high school teacher. I am a mother of three adults and two grandsons. I am proud Louis Anel Dama Ravine girl, born of Muzemu Runga and Priscilla Nyokabi from a village called Sabatia. Sabatia is a village of love and there is a book written on going booklet about Sabatia as a village. I am a ninth born in a family of 10. Unfortunately, because everything has a pro and has a negative and a plus. I lost my mother while I was a child and it was their challenges that come by losing a man. I am happy being well taken care of by everybody that has been part of my journey. And that is why I am here, happily giving back to the community. I am the director of Otugi Edius. Back in 2013, at the normal circumstances, the way we go visiting people, we came across a family where we met some young children tied behind the house. Again, remembering this is a daya where the sun can be extreme or sometimes it can overrain. I felt what I can do to the society and I decided to, the ritual I can, I decided to host that ritual boy. From that time, we hosted that one and then within no time we had more than 20 needy cases and then from that time we have been helping them here, we train them on some things they can be able to do for themselves. And at the same time, we try to reconnect them with the family so that the families can accept them the way they are because nobody is born with an intention to be like that, but we are always born without knowing what you are going to become in the future. Again, being a tisha, I have been dealing with so many different kids, so by now when I met this type of people I am able to see why we should not condemn that some people are not good academically, we have people born with different abilities. One of the things that I remember as a young child, I grew up in a place, in an environment that had a lot of love and today when I look back into the day-to-day lifestyle of the people, I have actually lived in very many towns because when I left, when my mum passed on, I had to move to Enbu and later to Isiolo, Ahabin, Nairobi, I went to different parts of the country in terms of education and I also experienced the different cultures. Actually being a kikui born in the land of the Kalengins, the Tugens, since specific at me, I can say that it really helped me because I am able to view life from the diversity of the richness of the culture in our country and it gives me a lot of ease, even in raising children from the diverse communities because I know what a culture means for our people and so I am able to honour people with their cultures and not be judgmental. The centre protects in a pool of activities such as bed-making that fosters inclusion and diversity. Each and every day they are taught a new skill and then they keep on repeating it now and then so that they internalise it because to them their main abilities is the hard on, not really the mentor and I think that way if we take them even back to their families, they can be able to be appreciated, some of their parents do continue that activity and although some of them will just take the kid and forget about everything and then later you can go and meet the same boy, somewhere abandoned, again in the society, but the major ones whom we are dealing with apart from this, we have mothers who give birth to children with disabilities, they are taught on how to do these things and although they are there at home, they can be able baby to make some detergents, make those ornaments and they can even sit around the road and they will get the customers. When we got married 26 years ago, we have always done things, we have always given back to the community. For both of us we had lost our parents, our mothers, so our fathers were the main figures in our lines and it also gives us an opportunity to understand each other very much and so it was very easy to give back to people who are in need and we found ourselves helping and helping but we didn't know that there are rules of helping so we were just helping so at a point we knew that we were supposed to do a registration and that is how we registered it now in 2013, 14th May and after that we continued helping but in 2015 it really, the need was huge and there was an overflow of children here and that's how we started looking at the need in a different way, there are people who needed more than just what you are helping maybe giving them food or offering something, there are people who really needed to be in the safe space but I didn't know it would run to my old age, I later worked in a hospital and another hospital where I interacted a lot with people with disabilities and I found myself like we were getting attached very fast and it brought that aspect of like they are feeling comfortable in my presence or telling me their problems and little did I know that it would grow to a big thing later in my life but I am happy to have been married to Jeffrey because he has been of support and he's actually a lot of people look at me as the dream career but he's the one who said if at all we cannot raise our children away if that is not what you want we'll also raise reasons where we are so that they may have a father and they may have a mother both of us had a missing mother so it was easier to give them the two and that is what you are offering as a family Martha outlines the importance of a support system as she gives much credit to her family there's a way that God works with his children and I look at Otugi Angels as God's own and when God called me to this course he told me he's going to be present through and he has been looking down 10 years down the line after registration and through my life when I have been serving actually even when I was a student I remember one time I I had rescued a child from the streets of Isiolo I was a child but I was able to advocate for another child and it has been a journey filled with so much love so much care God's presence and that is enough we have come a journey that we can only say that it has been God yes and I would also say that my family has also been very supportive you sometimes when I find family members coming in to support or they tell me my sister where can we come in and can we buy uniform or can we do this and friends they are they are also families that have embraced us so they know that they can call in to ask what can I do for you it feels very nice we are not alone we have an organization that supports us with around 20,000 per man it has supported us we don't know when it's going to pull off but it has supported us for like three years for therapeutic for services for therapy services so whoever comes in and does therapy that is what they have paid from that kitty and it has been of support because we can say that it is it has been a journey that can only be seen it's only God who can take credit not even me as the founder because maybe I have given the space somebody else has come for transformative activities somebody else is cooking you see like the mze who is cooking them my husband is purchasing some of these things paying the bills as somebody else coming to give their free service somebody else coming in to wash you see it's a combination that I cannot also explain I don't I don't have I cannot count that I am good enough to attract people to come and help that man it's only God who can touch their hands to enable them to come in my specific role mostre is I act as their father in fact all the time they call me daddy so I feel I'm their father and I deal with them with the role of the father when you know a family without a father even directing them they might do something which is not very right but when they see you as the father when somebody does something good and then you are coming home and you meet them granting to you to show you this is what I have been doing today I have done this I have done that I trained this one to do this I feel so happy and so proud and infact majority of them they don't even want to leave but since they are not my biological children automatically we have to let them go and some of them when they go we go we try to follow them now and then to see whether they are moving on or they are just abandoned although we have that major problem of when the parents or when we trace their parents some of them you meet you don't mzazi and I'm chukwom toto tenana enda na tupa in another different town though living in their present there are a number of plans for the future the center is working towards we have big dreams and the dreams look so huge compared to ourselves but there's no big dream in the eyes of God and one day you can see we have put our future on the board we have we have everything we have a strategic plan that is doing well we can't complain you see like we launched it this year on 3rd of June so six months down into it we are happy you can see our smiles so we know that someday we gonna achieve because God God is not man He's going to enable a lot to happen because He knows for me I'm a mother of adults and I'm not just doing it for myself I am doing it for a whole lot of people that are yet to be born so God must honor that I know God has been faithful He'll continue being faithful until that dream that we have put there as our future be fulfilled because we have to speak for those that are speechless they may not speak but that's how we are here to be able to speak to be loud enough for them and who is God He's not measurable yeah the dream looks so big actually several people have told me this is so big why and you're like this I sell them this is no big dream it's not big it is enough because when God gave you this this plan He knew how is going to happen I may not know but He knows one thing I know is that it's gonna be fulfilled it requires millions and millions of money you would ask someone who doesn't have a thousand is dreaming of millions and billions of money but there is a way because we have a strategic plan and we have enlisted our needs so if you ask me today what do you want I will give you a list of things and the costs our strategic options and also our operational needs we have it so if you wish to support us it is clear which area you're supporting are you coming to support the therapy space or are you coming into you know people also have different hearts are you coming to to support the food security are you coming in to support the running of the safe house because even hygiene and sanitation is a big deal in terms of it's a heavy cost in terms of service to disability are you coming to sort the issue of industries we are ready and we have our paper work well done so if you have to choose something worth 1000 it's still on the list you can come and say I have the capacity of this ticked so even five years who is God God is not cannot be we can and we are going to manage so with the existence of such projects that add value to society success stories cannot go unnoticed there are also cases where like I found someone on the streets and because they are not able to express but I kept listening to what they were saying but I realized there was one this one word that was really repeated nighty re nighty re so I went and googled and found that nighty re is a place actually in Kenya and that way we are able to to to trace the local administration in nighty re because I found that that boy would die on the street and the family would all forever be looking for the person so I requested whether they could allow I would commit myself to be able to transport him to the other side to enable to enable maybe the family would know even if he looked like he would die anytime but he didn't die he's still alive he so we requested that he would rather be in the vicinity of the name that he's mentioning so that in case anything happens even during the burial they could they could know that that is a person belonging to a certain family but coincidentally when we went there we used the motorbike we went to the children officer the police from Tigoni we were located the security and we found the people in with the motorbike is a motorbike we were able to dialogue and they kept telling us they kept directing us to the the nearest place so we arrived at nighty re and we arrived at the local chief's camp and we were able to be a locate we presented the child to see whether anybody can know them at the chief's place and one man said is that not the boy who got lost from this family and we were able to be given them Zewanyu Bakumi who went to take us to that family and they stamped that it was where he belonged evidently everyone has a calling that can only be realized by working at the right channels let us all therefore work for the betterment of those around us my dream is big we have the seven we have the seven services and whether you are interested in supporting therapy or industries or dialogue or family strengthening outreach services the city centre or the education centre which is an innovation centre whether you are interested in supporting the safe house or the utugi angel safe shelter any of the area that you feel all the sanctuary therapy services any of the areas that you feel that you're interested in and you could support you're so much welcome to support to support utugi angels we will be glad to achieving together with you and we know that you can only do this with love here as long as you're supporting utugi wherever you depend and you'll actually receive the blessing because whatever is done out of love has also blessings that comes by it may god bless you and continue supporting this kind of things and anytime you go and meet some kids abandoned somewhere please be the sound of the society be the sound of the god to tell these people don't condemn please rift this person this person god created him or her for a certain purpose we are on social media we are utugi angels community you'll find us we have a website utugi angels community dot org we have the we are on social media is utugi angels community whether it's facebook instagram twitter all the pages even tiktok you'll find us as utugi angels community if you want to support us you can get to our website and see how you could support us we have our accounts there and also for anybody wishing to support us you could deposit to family bank limuru branch zero four seven zero zero zero zero three zero seven zero six and also you couldn't pass on zero seven two three two nine six eight four five and you'll find matha