On this Monday morning we woke up at 3 am with Nau Levu to prepare children’s breakfast from poor homes before they go to school. We also gave breakfast to young children who have not started school. We bought lettuce, 60 eggs, powdered juice, onions, 2 can of tomato sauce and also bought 60 burger buns from the bakery. Nau Levu woke up earlier at 2am to fry all eggs. I picked up the burger buns at 4am which was ordered the night before. It was a cold morning and we were both not feeling well because of the cold and we have been travelling and working a lot for the ministry. But this story is not about us but the Lord Jesus lover and the poverty stricken people in our beloved Fiji.. But we are thankful to God for giving us the energy to prepare meals for the poor from the money donated from our close friends. We are always so thankful with our friends who always give their gift of blessings of money in order for us to buy food for the poor. We always pray for Gods blessings for them.
We worked on the breakfast for 60 children, perhaps the biggest breakfast we had prepared. Eggs and onions were fried, juice mixed, buns buttered and the egg burgers were ready at 6am. We packed the carton of juice and egg buns in to the car and drove off in the cold Lautoka morning stopping at the settlement. where people have built shelter out of bad and old timber and tin to make houses as their homes. Homes are in very poor and bad state.
They are not livable but these people of the settlement have no choice. They are so poor and live in a forgotten state. They live in the rubbish dump where rubbish from both Lautoka City and Nadi are dumped. The settlement is infested with flies, rats, cockroaches and other pests. Rubbish is everywhere. It is depressing to see these living condition. No human should be allowed to live in these states. This morning the children have not really come out of their homes, some are still asleep. Soon the word went around, he is is here. They started coming around.
The older children brought their brothers and sisters along. They still look sleepy and many just came out with the worn out clothes they own. They were old clothes and all did not have shoe or even flip flops for their tiny beautiful feet. The one year and two-year-old are always very quiet but we can see their happy smiles when they receive their breakfast. They come out of sheds with longing eyes that they will receive some food. My grandchildren face flashed in my mind, these could easily be them.
Some could spot us from the broken walls of their homes. These are my grandchildren now and all those that help us in making these breakfasts. I wondered how many other children face these terrible situations in our beloved Fiji. Their older brothers and sister would hold their hands or shoulder lovingly to guide them to us for their meals as the dawn breaks. Their clothes are torn dirty and old, the result of clothes worn too may times and were better off in the very rubbish dump they live in.
Some would have been picked from the dumps behind their homes. We distributed all the food we had but some went without as we have ran short, and promising to return another day later in the week. We ask for your prayers for the poverty-stricken people in our beloved country, someone near your home need your love. God bless you all. Elia Vesikula. VOP. Voice of the Poor.
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