Widow Care Center
What do widows do in countries where there is no social security and no pensions, and where the traditional family networks have broken down? If they do not surrender to the demands of male relatives (e.g., "levirate," widow inheritance, remarriage, household slavery, and often degrading and harmful traditional burial rites) and they are illiterate and untrained and without land, their options are few. Kenyan law grants widows the right to live on their late husbands’ property until they die, but poor women are often evicted by land-hungry relatives, who use culture to justify their actions, which leaves widows without any means to provide in their basic need
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“Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you.” James 1:27
Our Widow Care Center in Kenya provides a home to abandoned widows where they are helped to restore their dignity and self-worth through special programs and daily Bible studies. Many of these women testify how they were sitting in their huts, alone and desolate, some without food for days and with no hope of having a meal within the next few days. Now they have a safe place to stay, they have enough food every day and also medical care.
