As the last born in poverty stricken family of six children, Rose Bugusu grew up experiencing the worst form of poverty and suffering. In her formative age, she survived by working alongside her mother in farms. Bugusu’s heart learned and experienced a lot at the time she needed to join high school. She was not certain if there was a possibility for her to join high school since her sisters never joined high school and she knew this would still happen to her. Rose’s heart changed when one of her sisters who was just working as a house help in Nairobi said she would try to find a cheaper school for her to join high school. Everybody including Rose was shocked as house helps earned very little and the same sister was to help the parents as well. But She went ahead and invited Rose to Nairobi and was admitted in a day school which allowed her sister to pay school fees per month. What Rose was concentrating on was going to school and not even boarding a bus or having lunch.

When Rose went back home to visit her parents it was an experience as things were different in her world. She was going to school at the same time living in town and she saw life in rural areas very different. Despite the difficulties she was going through as walking to school every day without lunch and even not having school shoes, bag and even uniform, her heart broke! This was because of her friends who had no one to sacrifice and enable them to join secondary school. Most of her friends had already had kids whom they could not even take care of, others had already gotten married and even separated again and having problems to take care of their kids, it was so depressing. This changed Rose's heart and gave her a burden in her heart. Having accepted Christ in her life and not knowing what to become after school, Rose shared with her mom and told her one day she would come and help people back home. This was never realized until after 20 years, waiting upon the Lord in prayers and going through so many experiences in life, God prepared Rose and in 2004 she felt that God's timing ad come and thus started working out the journey of Tumaini Miles of Smiles Centre! Year 2005 Tumaini was born and praise be to God!

....CHANGING LIVES, CREATING SMILES & GIVING HOPE FOR THE GLORY OF GOD