 UPCOUNTRY
The capital city of Nairobi and the surrounding areas are much more advanced and have many services to offer their residents. As you travel outside the city and suburbs, you see that those living in the village, or upcountry, do not have the same luxuries and opportunities afforded to them. Even though there are more slum areas close by Nairobi, you see that there are a lot of non-governmental organizations reaching those places because of the attention it has gotten in the media. However, there are villages in Kenya that have been virtually unreached who would benefit from home being established in their area to help their children, unite the community, and spread the love of Jesus.
In the village, it is hard to find a job and many work at farming their own land, trying to receive a small wage from selling their produce and feed their family with the same food. Cars are not so prevalent, so if you want to go somewhere, you must walk long distances. There aren’t as many schools and where there are schools, the teachers are mostly untrained.
If a child living in the village has a special need or disability, it is likely they will not get an education and often are hidden away. A good portion of these children will die due to lack of proper medical care. Some of these children, from the more primitive tribes, will die when their families throw them out in the bush to be attacked by animals for that is better than having to raise a child with a disability. The ones that do not die will probably never reach their full potential and work menial jobs or do nothing at all.
There are many with the mindset that someone with a disability will never amount to anything and therefore they should not be invested in. The SKY mission hopes to change this mindset by creating leaders out of these children that would be forgotten and showing the community and the country that we cannot call anybody unworthy that the Lord has called worthy.
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