E.T.L. simply stands for Educate the Orphans.
That's my call.
I started off as one kid.
I was quite happy to sponsor one child,
and then it became five, then it became ten.
We're now presently working with around 3,000 kids,
approximately 260 of them are sponsored kids.
All the rest of the work basically is done through prayer,
through faith and through generous people who give me donations.
Many, many, many orphans and the children from the poor families
are coming to me.
We are an E.T.L. family.
We don't believe in institutions.
I don't put them into children's homes or things like that.
The money that I got from the sponsors,
we pay school fees for the children.
We buy uniforms for them,
and more so we do feed them.
Yes.
So sponsorship allows me to do that.
It also allows the children to feel loved,
that they have people back home in the West who care about them.
We don't always succeed,
but we try to get letters and report forms back and forward.
So it is the people back home who give me their money
and the children here can become united.
They get to know each other.
It's not just me taking people's money and spending it
on an anonymous child.
It's a family, it's a relationship.
My name is Daddy Dacabara.
My name is James Burum.
I'm 15 years old.
I'm the prefect of language because I know English more than others.
I want to be a teacher.
Being here and seeing these children firsthand and in close quarters.
They're amazing kids.
They're so happy, yet they really have nothing.
They're so friendly.
They all want to give you high fives or shake your hand and welcome you.
And what I can't get my head round is that they feel so blessed at you being there.
So the £20 covers quite a lot.
But our promise is that every penny we get for the children goes to the children.
And that's what we teach the children.
We teach the children that mostly in our own schools we have built seven schools.
Just mud walls and iron roofs.
We're progressing, we're getting better.
They learn that Ngondi loves them.
That's why they're there.
Then about the hygiene.
Then they are educated so that in the future
they can have maybe self-employment or maybe to manage themselves in the future.
We make sure that they all know that this work is supplied by God.
Everything that they have here is supplied by God.
We try to teach them basic Christian love.
Jesus changes their lives.
That's why we have very important people from here to you.
Lakers, teachers, pastors, promise you.
We did quite a lot of work with the local communities too.
There is not enough food or enough rain to produce food.
So now farming is always within the area.
The most important thing is we make sure we buy food.
The second most important thing is water.
These are two basic human needs.
So we put in boreholes like the one we have down here.
Solar panels, water tanks, whatever we can do in that line.
It's very difficult working with people and telling them the love of God.
God's a great God and then watching them die of starvation.
So we have what we call a Relief Food Program.
Every now and again we get extra money that God gives us.
And if it's not earmarked for anything, we would buy Relief Food through our network of pastors.
We would bring the poorest, the oldest, the infirm to our centre here
and we would distribute some Relief Food to them.
We work together with them.
We would go and help them in the shambas or the old ladies
or the women who have children and husbands have run off or died.
We would build them houses as a community, not as individuals, not as white people, but as a community.
We have a Hito farm where we grow maize to feed the children.
But because it is small, it cannot produce enough to feed all our children.
When Kenya has droughts, we are not able to manage
because we rely on the small rain for that we have.
It looks very green here at the minute, because we've had three days real.
But normally this place and the places where we work is very, very hard.
So when there is a drought, we do pump water to the farm and it produces crops.
And the more so, God has put a lot of blessings.
Yes, God has blessed the farm because it is used to feed the needy children.
Health is very poor. Everybody is sick because there is no clean water.
Again, we are in the middle of a famine.
Many, many, many people are dying.
The Kenyan government has closed down many schools
and we are in on the edit here in this school day and day with people coming looking for sponsorship.
So for these kids to remain in school and have good health, they need to be fed.
So we need a lot enough money to feed them and also to make sure that they are in school.
We need to pay school fees.
What motivates me is when I come here and I see these people and I know God loves them.
I know in his eyes that every bit is important as the people back home or anywhere else in the world.
My faith, my belief is that we are all God's children.
What motivates me here is I see the desperate, desperate, desperate need and I want to help.
I want to actually show them the love of God, not just preach to them or preach out them.
I live with them. We sleep here with them, we eat here with them.
I want to show them the practical love of God, trying to bring a little bit of the Kingdom of Heaven down to them.
I'm motivated by God's love for these people. James 1, 27.
Religion that God our Father sees as pure and faultless is looking after the orphans of the widows and keeping yourself pure.
Looking after the orphans of the widows. You know what? If God sees that as pure and faultless, hey, that's good enough for me.
Still, ETO, as a need, we have not accomplished our vision. So we would like them to help us to extend our boundaries because the level of puberty in Nidiraka is wide.
Bobby has about 3,000 children, his children as he calls them, and out of those 3,000 children, there are approximately only about 270 who actually have sponsors.
So my message would be sponsor a child. You know, we think nothing of spending £20 on a Chinese or something, and yet that money means life to a child here, and education to a child, and new life for a child here.
We are changing these people's lives through God, but hey, there's a lot more to do. There's a lot, lot more to do.
I know who you are, I know who you are, little heart, little heart, little heart, I know who you are,
I know who you are, little heart, little heart, little heart, little heart, little heart.
Little heart, I know who you are, I know who you are.
