Today we were in clinic. The clinic is on the grounds of Caritas where we daily invite about a hundred children who live on the streets of this small city, the capitol of this small, dry, hot & oddly-named country that is bordered by countries that are in turmoil.
Here they have a few hours for 2 meals, a rest, bath, health care, clothes and some education before they head out for the rest of the day & for the night.
We see 20-50 of these children, aged 5 to 15, daily in the clinic.
F is 13: he looks 12. He walked here from Somalia to avoid the violence. Someone had sliced at him with a knife, cutting him nearly ear-to-ear. He came to us for a dressing change the following day, he had been stitched at a local Hosp the night before: a very bad job of it, by the way. By God's grace both jugular & carotids wee missed. We took care of him & encouraged him that he was saved by The LORD's Love that day.
Please pray for the thousands of street children in this city: for His provision & His Grace. These children are treated as if they had no worth & they really have no resources other than small jobs, begging, charity & scrounging.
Here they have a few hours for 2 meals, a rest, bath, health care, clothes and some education before they head out for the rest of the day & for the night.
We see 20-50 of these children, aged 5 to 15, daily in the clinic.
F is 13: he looks 12. He walked here from Somalia to avoid the violence. Someone had sliced at him with a knife, cutting him nearly ear-to-ear. He came to us for a dressing change the following day, he had been stitched at a local Hosp the night before: a very bad job of it, by the way. By God's grace both jugular & carotids wee missed. We took care of him & encouraged him that he was saved by The LORD's Love that day.
Please pray for the thousands of street children in this city: for His provision & His Grace. These children are treated as if they had no worth & they really have no resources other than small jobs, begging, charity & scrounging.
