OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE NAKURU WIDOW'S

HOUSE IS ON 17TH JULY 2010

8TH APRIL, 2010 - THE FINAL LEG

The Widowed woman house in Nakuru, Kenya is almost complete. The Seeds family with the support of  friends has been constructing this house since September, 2009. We came to know about this lady and her six children through a preacher visiting London who was describing about poverty and she gave the woman as an illustration of how  bad poverty can be. (see more at the end of this story). The Seeds family lives in London and sometimes they tend to think like Londoners forgetting that the lady they are trying to help is from a very poor background. We cannot move her to another level within a day. Due to her background the lady is not exposed. She only sees people constructing houses but she has never been involved nor worked at a construction site. We decided to involve her right from day one by giving her about KShs. 2,000 every week to help her to cook for the workers.  This would make her feel that the project belongs to her and she would be prepared psychologically. It was not until they started fixing the window panes that she explained that she has never known in her life that they use mud (putty) to fix them. When the construction is almost over we discovered that the lady had never used flashing toilet and it would not be comfortable to her to use right from day one. We have decided to construct two toilets and two bathrooms outside. She has never used a shower.

Again she has never used charcoal and gas  in her cooking - this has forced us to construct a separate kitchen for her so that she can be using firewood before familiarising herself with the gas and charcoal. On the final leg we have now discovered that she has no household goods. We have to buy everything new for her. We are calling family, friends and well wishers to donate whatever they wish. We are meeting in April, 2010. The widow's contact in Kenya is Mrs. Lucy Wanjiru Maina on 0727307672 - the same number for M-Pesa.

THE CONSTRUCTION IS ALMOST COMPLETE - MONDAY 15TH MARCH 2010

The journey is almost complete

Help The Seeds settle this widowed lady

The construction started on 15th September 2009

The house construction now remains roofing and plastering and this will make a difference to Mrs. Lucy Wanjiru Maina (right) - a mother of six

It all started in a fellowship in London several years ago. A visiting preacher from Nakuru, Kenya was preaching in a Kenyan family house in London where they had lost their parent in Kenya. As the preacher was preaching she narrated the meaning of the word "poverty". "You people, you don't know what poverty is. When I talk about poverty you might not exactly understand but I can narrate what poverty is all about with an example of a widowed lady who was left by the husband with 6 children. The children do not go to school and the family is like nomads. They have been evicted from their rented houses for more than 9 times. They rent house, at the end of the month they cannot afford to pay the rent hence they are evicted. You are evicted until you don't know which estate you belong." the preacher explained. After the fellowship Pastor Jane Njiiri, the wife of Mr. Seed, enquired from the preacher about the woman and her where abouts. She contacted the lady and immediately she started to educate her children. It has been all along the desire of Pastor Njiiri and her family to build a home for this poor widow to make a difference in her life. Whenever Mr. Seed's family are in Kenya they always contact the lady who always join them in their family tour and she has become like a part of their family.

Pastor Njiiri thought of starting the project of buying a plot in Nakuru for the widow in June this year. She expressed her dream to a group of other women and one lady from Nottingham who heard about the dream was pleased and expressed her wish to join the dream. "If Mr. Seed's family can risk building a house for a widow whom they have no relation, I can risk donating my plot in Nakuru for the lady and then you do the building. Yes, I can donate my Isaac" (referring to the Isaac in the Bible) the lady explained. The lady, Mrs. Catherine Kairu well known as Mama Martin who lives in Nottingham kept her word. She had a plot in Pipeline Nakuru with a market value of over KShs. 500,000 Pastor Njiiri and Miss Catherine Kairu flew to Kenya in August this year. They transferred the plot to the lady and cleared all the outstanding fees on the Title Deeds. They stayed in Kenya for 3 weeks doing all the groundwork to start the construction. The construction started on Wednesday 2nd September, 2009. The big question was - what type of a house should we do for this lady. After several consultation Pastor Njiiri came up with good plan. A three-bedroom house for the family and two units of 1 bedroom for renting. This will be generating some income for the lady so that she can be self-dependant.

The construction of the house is now complete (see photo) awaiting the roofing, plastering. The construction also include a big water tank. After kick starting the project we are now appealing to well wishers and good Samaritans to help us with donations complete this project for this lady. You can donate one or two iron sheets (48 @ KShs. 750 each), windows (14 @ KShs. 3,500 each), steel doors (2 @ KShs. 6,000), wooden doors (14 @ KShs. 2,500), 33 bag of cement @ KShs. 850 each for plastering, labour @ about Kshs. 44,000. A well known lady living in Nakuru Mrs. Elizabeth Kihoro who came for artificial leg fixing in London has been overseeing the construction.

You can send your donation to Mr. Seed on 07951220695 or misterseed@hotmail.co.uk OR you can contact the lady overseeing the construction on 0710227033 (she is on M-Pesa), or the widow herself Mrs. Lucy Wanjiru Maina on 0727307672. The Seeds family dream is to construct and furnish the house for this lady. It is our intention to a make a difference to at least one widow in Kenya.

The construction started when the was water problem in Kenya and we were buying water for construction - photo taken on 26th October, 2009

UPDATE OF THE CONSTRUCTION AS OF SAT. 14TH NOV. 2009

The construction as of Saturday 14th November, 2009. On right is the Widow and one of her son.