Down to Her Last 60 Cents!

Grandma Air has been raising her grandson, Folk, ever since his father died and his mother abandoned him. “Folk was 5 years old when his mom left him with me. My love for him is beyond words. I would do anything for him,” declared Grandma.

“My Grandma is very kind, and she likes to cook for me,” said Folk about his grandmother.

Grandma had been providing for her grandson by working in a rice field. One day, she fell off a motorcycle and broke her arm. She couldn’t work for four months and ended up more than $1300 in debt. “I was so discouraged,” she recalled. “I wondered how I would pay my debt.”

Eventually Grandma returned to work in the fields but with limited mobility, she earned even less. One day they got down to their last 60 cents.

“I gave Folk the 60 cents because I was worried he would go hungry at school. I didn’t tell him it was all I had. Then I asked my sister for a bowl of food for us to eat that evening.”

“If I had known that it was Grandma’s last 60 cents, I would have returned it,” said Folk.   

When CBN’s Orphan’s Promise learned about the family, we helped Grandma Air set up two small businesses. First, we provided 400 mushroom pods to start a mushroom farm in a shed. Then we installed a fence and a chicken coop and gave grandma 50 chickens to raise and sell. We also trained her how to manage those businesses.

Also, on three separate occasions during the pandemic, we gave Grandma and Folk food packs filled with rice, fish, noodles and milk.

Grandma sells the mushrooms, eggs and chickens in their community. Their businesses are doing so well that in the past year, she’s been able to pay off almost 90 percent of her $1300 debt!

Today, she says she and her grandson no longer go hungry. “It feels so good to pay off my debt. I thank God for helping us through Orphan’s Promise,” said the grateful grandmother. 

“Thank you for our chicken and mushroom farms,” added Folk. "May God bless you!”