nya.The best part of the day-long journey from Texas to Kenya was meeting her husband and daughter at the airport. Hugging them was like a big sigh of relief. Now that she’s back in Kenya, Wasike is responsible for imple- menting the Buckner Family Hope Center model of coaching families to self-sufficiency. “Greater than her compassion for people, is her passion to know,
encourage and allow people to change themselves through finding purpose in this life through Christ Jesus, personal drive and determi- nation,” says Phil Brinkmeyer, Buckner senior director of international operations. “Rose is driven by the cause of Christ as she helps others work toward their own drive. Anyone who meets Rose sees Christ through her sweet spirit, quiet resolve and her glimmering smile.” Wasike is so dedicated to helping Kenyan children she has taken
in a young boy who doesn’t have any living parents as one of her own. She refused the typical kinship stipend from Buckner; she simply
wanted the boy to have a safe, loving place to live. “As a person, Rose is very hard-working and pays attention to
details,” Masindano says. “She loves her job but she goes above and beyond her work, like the young man she took in. She was so attached to him.” Masindano says Wasike has free reign to develop the Family Hope Center model in Kenya, mostly because she has already been successful in implementing other programs like kinship/ foster care and an economic empowerment program known as community banking. “Even before Rose left for Baylor, one of her strengths was that she managed to bring families together,” Masindano says. “She developed programs that grew really fast, and we’ve had some graduates, meaning people who no longer need our support. Rose has been very, very instrumental in that.”
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