Fayia was a non-believer for most of his life. When he started reading the Bible and experienced a new life in Christ.
“Only God kept me through the war in Liberia in my younger years,” Fayia reminisced. During this time, he fled to Sierra Leone for three years, his two sisters died from sickness, his only brother fell out of a palm tree and died, and his parents passed away. After the war, he moved in with an older man who took him in as a son.
Fayia is now around 70 years old and has never been married. He is no longer strong enough to farm or clear land with a machete to generate an income. He thanks God and CAM donors for the Help for the Elderly food parcels he receives. Fayia says the food parcel sustains his life so he can live for God.
Joseph also lived through many challenges in Liberia. He never knew his father, and his mother died in 2002. Joseph and his wife had two sons, but one of the boys died at two years old, and the other at three months old.
Farming was Joseph’s way of providing income until six years ago, when his eyes started failing. Now he struggles to walk and care for himself. Because of his eye problems, his wife left him, making it difficult for him to survive on his own. He has one sister who works hard to support her family and to help him financially.
Through the Help for the Elderly program, Joseph receives food parcels and says they are a true gift from God. The food helps add to the little rice he is able to buy in his village. He says, “I tell God thank you!”
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