2 boys returned home!!!!!!

We recently helped 2 boys leave the streets and Maputo and return to their families!!! Here are their stories:

Oracinho

Oracinho has been living on the streets on and off again for almost a year. Oracinho is only 10 years old and still a little baby. Oracinho’s house is an hour outside the city, surrounded by farmland. Oracinho first came to the streets with some of his friends who wanted to see the big city but his friends returned home and he stayed. When we took Oracinho home, so many different neighbors and friends greeted him by shouting out his name, which made him feel welcome. Oracinho left home because he didn’t like his father’s rules and didn’t like getting spanked for disobeying.

Oracinho is so intelligent for his age. Oracinho is one of the few boys his age that knows the alphabet and writes his name. He has such great potential.

Please pray for Oracinho to stay home and realize that by his father giving him rules is a form of love. Pray that he goes back to school. Pray that he sets a good example for his others brothers and sisters.

I taught him how to take self pix

Me and Oracinho at the pool

He loves self pix now...

Pedro (Ernesto)

Little Pedro ran away from home over 3 years ago and has been living on the streets ever since. He recently decided he was ready to return home so we drove him home on Wednesday. His house is in an extremely remote village about 4 hours from the city. Upon arriving to Pedro’s house, Pedro was welcomed home by neighbors, cousins and many friends. His mom wasn’t at home but one of the neighbors called her in a franic telling her that she needed to hurry home because there was a surprise waiting for her. About 30 minutes later the mother arrived really frustrated with her friends because they wouldn’t tell her what was going on. And when she arrived Pedro was inside the house changing clothes, so all she saw was Luis (our director of masana) and I. She began to yell at her friends saying you guys shouldn’t do this to me..you guys scared…you guys made me run all this way just because a white stranger is at my house…in the middle of here sentence Pedro walked out and they made eye contact and she busted into tears. I cried and she cried. She hadn’t seen him is years and she was full of excitement. A lost for words. God had broght her son back home.

I was one of the most memorable moments of my life.

 

God will highlight a certain boy and give me a special bond with him. He'll be one of the boys that we trust a little bit more than the others. He'll be one that opens up to us and shares about his life on and off the streets. And these are usually the boys we see making the decision to return home. And that is what our being here is all about.