For those of you who don't know me I'm a sucker for animals and kids. Let's say I wanted to go fishing with three adults my age or with three 15 year old boys. I'd take the latter anytime. Kids are full of enthusiasm. Their ideas are fresh and inspiring. They're fun.
On the other hand when tragedy befalls kids I'm absolutely heartbroken. This is the case in a story out of Urbandale Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines, On a daily basis I'll read articles from the five Iowa towns in which we resided. No, I wasn't run out of town on a rail but when one is in the coaching racket moves are inevitable. The story you're about to read should give you thanks and create the need to help out.
Read the following paragraphs and tell me you don't want to help these kids.
A Des Moines family that escaped war-torn central Africa three years ago is again in search of salvation after two tragedies separated by months have left five children without their mother or father.
On Friday, 31-year-old Bazirake Kayira was killed in a single-vehicle accident on an icy road in Marshall County. Rescuers pulled him from his car submerged in a frigid creek, but he died from his injuries a short time later. His death comes four months after his wife, Zabayo Bigirimana, died while giving birth to a baby girl. Now, she and her four big brothers – ages 2, 6, 8 and 10 – are left without parents and in need of a community’s help to keep them all together.
“They’ve been crying all the time, saying ‘we lost mother. We lost father.’ It’s very, very hard to the kids,” said the family’s pastor, Eugene Kiruhara, of Shalom Covenant Church in Urbandale.
The children are now in the care of their grandparents – but that situation is tenuous. They immigrated to the United States themselves just a few years ago, don’t speak English and don’t have financial means. Bazirake was their support system as well, leaving them with little-to-nothing.
Along with the GoFundMe account, the church is also accepting monetary donations for the family as well. Checks can be sent to:
Shalom Covenant Church
7605 Aurora Avenue
Urbandale, Iowa 50322
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