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foreword

Charles Mulli

My heart is continually moved when I see how children and young mothers suffer due to a lack of nutritious food, shelter, medical care, and parental love. Their lives are characterized by insecurity, abandonment, and rejection. Orphans in particular are the most vulnerable and marginalized group in Kenya.

The plight of orphans and street children caught my attention when a group of street boys organized themselves to steal my car in Nairobi in April 1986. This incident caused me to re-evaluate how I was spending my life. Up until then I had been successful in business and thought that was how I would continue. But God used the event to work in my heart. Three years later, on November 17, 1989, God anointed me to be a father to the fatherless. Together with my wife, Esther, I began to reach out to children in Kenya and show them God’s love.

Hannah’s Hope is the true story of one such orphan girl, whose problem was reported to me by one of the senior officers at MCF. I organized a mission to rescue her from Kisumu near Lake Victoria, where she lived with her younger sister and her elderly, poor grandparents, who could not adequately care for their needs. Hannah and her sister were very little girls and in a state of abject poverty, and I felt it was my joy to welcome her and her sister into Mully Children’s Family.

Hannah’s story is like that of many other children (over 13,000) whom Esther and I have rescued and reintegrated into communities over the last 28 years. It is part of our ongoing mission to reach out to many others yet to join our “world’s largest” family. This story shows the need to help the millions of others suffering around the world. I thank the Lord for Paul Boge and his passion in writing my books Father to The Fatherless, Hope to the Hopeless, and The Biggest Family in the World and for helping to edit My Journey of Faith. Paul has now written this great story of a little girl who became a daughter to Esther and me. We have seen Hannah grow through childhood to adulthood, full of determination, humility, obedience, and an ever-increasing love for God and people.

I encourage you to read this story of a girl who rose up from hopelessness to hopefulness. I trust it will encourage you to evaluate your own life as well. Without God, all things we do become nothing. Proverbs 19:17 says, “One who is gracious to a poor man lends to the LORD, and He will repay him for his good deed.”

– Dr. Ev. Charles Mutua Mulli, PhD, HSC

Founder and CEO, Mully Children’s Family