Hope Begins When A Child Belongs
One of the ways the Flower Mound Rotary Club is impacting the world is through the sponsorship of children in Africa. Rosemary is one of those children.
With 7 billion stories scattered over 7 groaning continents, it seemed likely that Rosemary and Nancy would pass quietly into the ranks of the unnoticed, statistics rather than flowers, two tiny sisters unattached to anyone willing to stand for them. Things had just never gone their way. At every turn, the wrong thing always happened to them. They had grown to accept this in the deep place where dreams used to bud.
Born in the highway town of Narok, Kenya to Ruth Wanjiru, Rosemary came first in 2007, followed 3 years later by Nancy. A marital separation happened early and the girls’ father never played a role in raising them. Close relatives say that by Rosemary’s third birthday, Ruth began to disappear nightly to get drunk, leaving her to care for herself and her baby sister Nancy. The night the terrible thing happened came soon after, leading to a domino effect of tragic choices by mom that would eventually lead her to take flight three years later.