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Nga is eleven. Although her family was poor, she was happy growing up. She and her friends loved drawing pictures in the dirt with sticks. They laughed and played. Sometimes they made mud houses. Or jumped rope.
Her happy memories ended as a first grader. Her parents pulled her out of the village school, emigrated, and settled in a large city in another country, where her dad found a better-paying job.
But the language difference and stress of “big city” living caused her parents to fight and finally divorce. Nga was glad when she and her mom moved back to their village. Then her mom remarried.
Over the next few months, her stepfather raped her multiple times. After two of the attacks, her stepfather threatened: “If you tell anyone, I’ll kill you and your mother.”
After the third attack, Nga finally told her mom what had happened. Hear her devastating account of her mom's response:
Her elderly, widowed great-aunt embraced the young girl and tried to ease her pain. And praise God, she also called the police, which led to the stepfather’s arrest. But the elderly aunt couldn’t give Nga a permanent home. Where was Nga to go?
You provided a place of safety for Nga to live. You gave her comfort, hugs, a regular schedule, good food, and friends to play with again. Soon, a Christian counselor whom God has used to bring inner healing to many traumatized children will meet with Nga.
When those Christian caregivers loved Nga, it was you who loved her. Your arms held her. Your love helped her.
Please consider prayerfully investing in Nga’s future — and the future of others like her who need love-filled protection — by giving your most generous, prayer-backed gift today?