Kenya is situated on the eastern coast of Africa and is bordered by Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and the Indian Ocean. It is located on the equator, so it s very hot there all year round. My first impression of Africa was that the people are extremely poor. Basic necessities are really lacking there. Most of our church members live in rural areas where there is often no electricity or tap water.
People work hard all their lives just to provide food for themselves.
Some parents have to give their children away because they simply cannot feed them. Young girls around fifteen or sixteen years old sometimes marry much older men simply so they can eat. Children often go without food for a couple of days, and they are usually very skinny due to malnutrition. On our first day in Kenya, we rented a van to drive to our church, which was in the countryside about eight hours away. Before we started on our trip, we stopped by a grocery store to buy some mineral water.