How you can help

Please check out the ELI blog for how you can help during this time. There is great need for additional support due to prices having skyrocketed as a result of the unrest, as well as ELI having provided assistance to internally displaced peoples.

Update from Laban at Ilula

Things have gone bad ever since the outcome of the elections. There is tension all over. Houses
were burned even as close as 600 meters from the children's home. Gunshots from the security forces were heard trying to stop mobs that were causing all that was going on.

We have been trusting in God though the situation has caused fear and anxiety among the children as well as adults. There have been up to 200 people taking refuge at the children's
home. We have no security as the government cannot provide now. They concentrate mostly
on those in makeshift camps for those displace and urban centers to take care of property
from damaging and looting.

Thank you for your prayers!

Don Rogers and his family were here that time and they managed to get some organised flight to Nairobi. They are safe, planning to fly back to US on the 11th. They were able to purchase some food for Ilula and Kipkaren in Nairobi and sent it by plane to Eldoret. We received the food on the 5th with Kipkaren staff who drove through numerous mob roadblocks to Ilula.

Shops and banks have not opened yet. Schools and colleges have been pushed to reopen on the
14th& 15th Jan.

The Red Cross was here yesterday promising to bring food today for the displaced people
and include the children. We hope they will do something though we are told the organization is really stretched with the magnitude of the problem.

We will keep you updated of our situation. Keep praying for us for God's protection on us.

It's a miracle that no child nor adult became sick at all from the start of the unrest. [We would not have been able to get anyone to the hospitals.] Also, hospitals are busy with the wounded and medicine is scarce now.

The grace of the Lord has been sufficient for us. We had wonderful prayers and encouragement with staff yesterday and the Lord moved mightily to give us more courage and strength to go on trusting and believing in GOD'S MERCIES AND DELIVERANCE for his children people and our nation KENYA.

Please keep praying.

Everyone here greet you and appreciate your concern. Things are cooling down at least a bit.

News from Laban at Ilula

This is an excerpt from an e-mail from Laban. Please check out the ELI blog for more news from Don and Amy.

God has been with us keeping us safe from the insecurity around. Your prayers are the source of our courage and faith in God who will bring the calm and peace we so need in our country.

Violance is reducing in many parts of the country with so many people displaced. There is need
for humanitarian aid and resettlement. Our major prayer request is for our leaders in government and opposition to agree and communities to go back to normal life as before.

Shops and business are still at standstill. Food is scarcely available. The children, parents and my children are all here. We have been hoting upto 200 children and women from the community since the unrest, but most of them have gone back to their houses or to the makeshift camps.

We have faith God will bring all these to an end soon.

Jesus the saviour answers prayers.

God bless you all.

Laban