how can any child be deemed lost? :(

i want share something that happened in africa. i've never shared this publicly - but today i found an email i had sent to a friend a few months ago.

i was with lucy standing outside a restaurant in molo and this cute boy maybe 12 years old was acting a little funny and he was smiling so much. lucy attempted to engage him in a conversation, while i was standing there. she tried to get him to talk and quickly accessed that he was high on glue. what she said to me next was heartbreaking - "so sad, this one is beyond hope he has been sniffing glue". it wasn't that he couldn't be helped, it's just that there are so many children needing help, thousands who have not started down the glue sniffing path. most of them won't get help and the resources in hand can only help so many so they don't even consider helping the kids on glue, they are deemed lost.

how can any child be deemed lost? :(

lucy is one of the most compassionate people i have ever met and she and samuel have sold off most of their meager possessions and samuel said "we are willing to lose everything to help the children" so this is not a matter of them not caring, it's a matter of lacking resources and of being the people on the frontline having to make unbelievably hard decisions, which children to take in and which child will have a future.

some how we need to find a way to help these kids too. i think there is a future for me in this arena. i did some research on rehab for kids addicted to glue sniffing, it takes just 30 days to detox completely. the root cause is poverty (outside of developed countries) and this is not just an issue in Africa it's all over the world. but i know i'm called to africa, specifically molo kenya - so once we get things really stable at Chazon, sustainable funding and a consistent stream of international volunteering then maybe we add this outreach or start a new one.