Written by Rosemary Wachiye 2011-07-15 20:08:00 Read 179 Times |  |
The Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa (Sinoko) PEFA church Bishop Morris Wanjala Wekesa. [Photo/Rosemary Wachiye/WestFm]
As people in most parts of the country complain of the rise in food prices, there are people from the marginalized areas like the residents from Central Pokot who are in dire need for food and water.
In the year 2009, the nation was shocked by reports that residents from the region had turned to hunting rats for food for their families and the following year, 2010, a woman was reported to have slaughtered a dog to prepare a meal for her family.
The situation at the moment is at its worst in the drought stricken region that the availability of the food stuffs whose prices have skyrocketed in the region would be received as a blessing for the locals.
The locals in the region have no food and are lost for options as they look for every crude way to feed their families.
The Pentecostal Evangelistic Fellowship of Africa (Sinoko) PEFA church, Bungoma East District, aware of this situation, came to the rescue of a section of the locals as it donated food and non-food stuffs to the vulnerable people, in Orwa, Central Pokot District.
The church led by their Bishop Morris Wanjala Wekesa, has contributed food stuffs towards helping out the most marginalized people in the country.
Bishop Wekesa cautioned his colleagues in the Christian mission to serve God to stop the notion of putting money as a priority by depending of foreign aid from European countries before helping their country men who are suffering as he insisted the relief mission was solely funded by his church.
He added that by doing so they are shaming our country and more so denying the country’s blessing and giving it to the country where the funds come from.
“When we pray and tell God to bless the hands of those who have given we will be taking away our country’s blessing back to the country where it comes from,” said bishop Wekesa.
He also affirmed that by doing so the servants of God will be showing a bad example to their followers and members of their church because, “the Bible states that we should trust in God fro everything and not in mankind.”
“There are some men of God who request fro funds from a broad through the internet but after they get access to it they end up using it for their own selfish interest and never go out of their way assist the needy people,” said bishop Wekesa.
Wekesa also called upon the government to set aside 10 per cent of the tax collected to go towards helping marginalized groups in the country that are faced with hardships.
He suggested that the government should construct stores in such areas to store grains to be used during the long drought season.
In addition, he stated that the government should devise a way of storing maize and wheat stalks in such stores so that they could be used as food for their animals.
“Its upon the citizens to help their fellow Kenyans in such times but not just to sit back and expect grants and funds from abroad,” said bishop Wekesa.
The church took bags of maize flour, bags of maize grains, Irish potatoes, sugar, rice, cowpeas, unshelled groundnuts, beans, biscuits, juice, sugarcane, books, pens, school bags and pencils.
It is not the first time this church has contributed to the underprivileged people in the country, but it has made it a routine every December before Jamhuri Day to contribute and give donations to the needy people in the country.
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