Greetings from us here in Migori.

I wanted to thank you all for your commitment in praying for us, through your prayers we have seen the hand og God in protecting us, thank you.

I also wanted to give a brief report with the situation here on the ground, this will help you to know how to direct your prayers as of now.

People around migori town which is estimated at 55,000 have been locked in their homes and housed for over a month , these people the majority do not have jobs or gardens, they live on small jobs which pays a daily wage in return they use their wage to buy something to eat or live on of course there are some have small businessess ranging from roasting corn to stores they also eat from that source, now , immargine 6 weeks without them able to any thing, people within the town of migori are starving, this situation we wanted to see if we can do something to help.

Most of the people here depend on Ugali [ corn meal ] as their major food, we wanted to ask all our friends to partner with me in providing several bags of dried corn which we will help to grind and get corn floor, this will help them make Ugali [corn meal] and Uji [ porridge, or light gritt] for breakfast.

We can get maize, some here in Migori and the rest in Kissii and around ISEBANIA, the border town, as I write a bag of 90 kgs of dried maize cost $ 28.70 , this include transportation and grinding the same.

With the maize we will target 2 groups of people, those who dwell in Migori town and also those who are coming from different parts of Kenya who have been displaced.

For example, this morning we received 400 people from NAKURU and NAIVASHA, it was a scene you wish to forget quickly but you cannot, they were narrating how they saw their wives, husbands and children killed, as they were saying it tears were rolling their eyes, I personally was there, as I write am still crying, we saw a woman pulling out the head of his husband which was chopped off, telling us how people came and killed her husband by butchering him in the pressence of their two kids, she is carrying the head home for burrial.
They brought with them 12 orphans who lost both their parents, these people have nor eaten for days, people were wailing in Migori in a way that shocked everyone.
We have formed a committe to plan for other trucks to go back and bring a nother stranded goup which might arrive a day after tommorrow, our church member Charles Ogol who is also our development chairman is in this committe, we have just given them the only 10, 000 Kshs. which we had for fuelling the trucks.
If we had maize we would have given several bags out , but I know shall get some soon, I felt too bad that I could not help.

We are planning to help these 12 orphans by giving them education as soon as we bring other orphans.

The purpose of this email is to ask you to pray for our Country, if led to help then this is the time to help.

Thank you so much,


Yours serving our Master,

Bishop John Okinda.