“Our great prayer is for
children to get opportunity to
go to school, to save their
lives, and better their future.
To man belongs the plan of
the heart but from the Lord
comes the reply of the
tongue, lets commit our entire
plan unto the lord and it will
succeed.” 
- Mare Dushe
Mare Dushe. Her life. Our Mission.
Mare Dushe works for Partners for
Care Kenya in the town of Marsabit,
Kenya. A place no one wants to
live.  Desolation and despair are
about the only two things you will
find in Marsabit.  She went to school
in Nairobi.  Most would take that as
a chance to get out of the hell that is
Marsabit.  Not Mare. She went back
to serve her people. “Her people”
live in an area that is a “perfect
storm” for missions. Marsabit, in the
north of Kenya: Unending drought,
un-reached people groups, AIDS,
malaria, starvation, orphans,
violence, and an increasingly
growing Muslim influence. Most
would say there is no hope, but
Mare walks from house to house,
kilometer after kilometer, day after
day in the name of Hope.
Mare’s work probably won’t forever
change the face of Kenya or its
people. Her work is not flashy. She
cleans the feet of the hopeless.  She
Mare Dushe, a Partners for Care Kenya social worker, serves with grace and compassion in Marsabit, Kenya.
helps bring peace to someone who If you have low self-esteem, do not
has never know it, love to one who read Mare’s reports.  They would
has never seen it, and joy to one make Mother Teresa feel like she
who has never felt it.  Mare Dushe.  hadn’t done enough. To put it
To many, she is just one more simply, she is a servant of God.  She
meaningless human in a calls herself a “social worker,” but a
meaningless land.  “good and faithful servant” might be
more appropriate.  She pursues her
Partners for Care Kenya has work with nothing more than a
partnered with Mare to serve in the prayer, “Our God is a merciful and
most humble of ways.  She bathes loving God and answers prayers
the dying, feeds the hungry,  and whenever one humbles.”  That was
cleans and washes the feet of those a line in her report…right before she
with jiggers.  She prays for the lost.  described how people were burning
Her monthly reports on her service their dirty clothes because doing
are heartbreaking.  “The community laundry was impossible, there was
is bearing the death of its livestock no water.
and their hunger in this drought. 
Most resort to barely eating one We all are blessed to serve a great
meal a day.  Time for drought to and mighty God, but what a joy it is
end, and time to seek God,” she to serve a God who is wholly
writes in her September 2009 report.  distracted by the calls of the weak,
Every report Mare writes is full of the poor, and the people of
horrific suffering, yet exude grace Marsabit, Kenya. What a blessing it
and love.  is to serve the God of Mare Dushe.