I was born to Ojambo Bendicto and his wife Agatha Makhoha, who already had seven children.  When I was four years old my father drowned in Lake Victoria.  My mother was left with eight children and no employment to care for us.  Life was hard so she left us with our older brother who was fifteen and a sister that was thirteen, and went to marry another man.  We never knew what it was like to have a nice meal, but we survived by working in people's gardens, taking care of someone's cows, and babysitting other children.  We survived on porridge during the day but at night we did not have anything for a meal. 

It was difficult attending school because we had no way to pay the school fees.  In 1993 a church in our community, the Lubanyi Baptist Church, partnered with Compassion International to release children from poverty in Jesus’s name, through providing Health and Education support.  I was picked by the Friends of Smithton Fellowship Church in Australia, and sponsored to acquire my formal Education from primary schooling through university education.  I presently hold a bachelor’s degree in social work and social administration.

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​Through Compassion International, in partnership with our church and their sponsorship programs, I happened to be a beneficiary that enabled me to know Jesus Christ and be nurtured to become a fulfilled Christian adult.  It is from that call that we are now in partnership with Bless Ministries Mobile USA, and reach out to the most vulnerable and deprived children in our churches and community.  We are enabling them know Jesus Christ through four areas of development in our church:  Spiritual Outcome, Education Outcome, Health Outcome, and Social Emotional Outcome.  These areas of development will help release them from poverty so they can grow up as fulfilled Christian adults.