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In Strength Not Our Own

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In Strength Not Our Own

Caring for Kenya's Children

Irene Howat, Georgie Orme


Pages: 224
Trim: Trade paperback
Isbn 13: 9781845503345
List Price: £7.99
Series: Biography
Imprint: Christian Focus
Category: Biography > Missionary

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Georgie Orme established a childcare centre in Kenya for the rehabilitation for children with mobility problems. Most of her original patients had suffered from polio and, left to their own devices, hauled themselves along the ground, seal-like - dragging their useless lower limbs behind them.
Seeking out anyone who would teach them anything, Georgie and her team stretched affected tendons through many hundreds of hours of pain-staking and painful physiotherapy until children's limbs were straight enough to be strapped into very basic home-produced splints.
Many children were encouraged to do the apparently impossible - they learned to walk. Daniel, also a polio victim, joined the team. A shoemaker, he went to South Korea for a short training programme in orthotics and prosthetics. He soon put his newfound skills into practice. Amazingly, the Centre at Kajiado started producing its own artificial limbs.
Children who were born without feet, or had traumatically lost their feet, were fitted with Kajiado-produced limbs and enabled to walk for the first time. The work had extended way beyond the original need Child Care Centre. God used a very ordinary Scottish missionary to do a most extraordinary work. Becoming mobile was not an end in itself, Maasai children were enabled to attend school, learn a trade and become independent. Many who saw Christian love in action became Christians.


About Irene Howat

Irene Howat is an award-winning author who has many titles, for adults and children, to her name. She is married to a retired minister and they have a grown up family. She is also a talented artist and now stays in Ayrshire, Scotland. She especially enjoys letters from children and replies to all of them!

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Reviews

"This is a most readable account of how an assuming Scottish girl became a vital part of God's plan for disadvantaged children in Kenya."

CLC World


Customer Reviews

A very honest, easy to read, acount of how God can use an ordinary individual to change hundreds of lives for His glory. Very encouraging for those thinking about missionary work, very informative for those wanting to know what missionaries really get up to and a really enjoyable read for everyone else.

Posted by Andrew Moody, missionary in Uganda at 11:02 on Wednesday 24 September 2008