Kenyan Lady Moves American To Tears With Her Heartrending Speech In Memory Of blast Victims Of 1998.

 In 1998, seven months pregnant and bleeding profusely, Caroline Wavai was in a Kenyan hospital fighting for her life after she climbed over dead bodies through the bombed-out building next to the U.S. Embassy. On July 12th the marple resident shared her experiences through songs at 2 p.m. She performed at the Sword of the Spirit Church of Living God at 71 S. Union Ave. in Lansdowne as she crusades for peace throughout the world. She invited artists from all over the world that came to witness and sang songs of peace and praise. The event was attended by so many people from all nations.

Born and raised in Kenya, Wavai was working on the 19th floor of the Cooperative Building, next to the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, on Aug. 7, 1998, where she miraculously escaped death with her son Lucky. Lucky her son who was unborn then moved the crowd with his speech of how he got his name Lucky. He had been announced that he was not going to survive, but God has seen him through to this point that he is a student at the Newtown Marple high school. He has made it through treatment and the post trauma behind him.
On that day suicide bombers parked trucks loaded with explosives in front of the embassy and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The simultaneous explosion killed 213 in Kenya, including 12 Americans, and wounded 4,000, and killed 11 were killed and wounded 85 in Tanzania. The attacks were linked to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and al-Qaeda. “Our building stood next to the embassy,” Wavai explained. “Many of the people died. We never had anything like that. I had so many cuts on my body. There was a deep cut in my left eye. I almost lost one eye.”
On this Friday August 7th marks the 17th years since both Caroline and Lucky survived. They have lived in Philadelphia since 2004 and they still go through a lot of trauma. Wavai herself said she still suffers pain from the experience, with severe discomfort in her head and hand. “Glass keeps coming out of my body every now and then,” she said. “Because glass is clear, the machines cannot detect them.” Picking the pieces that were left she has chosen to advocate for peace for the whole world especially for Kenya her country that has suffered so much through terrorism. “It is my hope that nobody else would experience terrorist attack like I did with my son and that is why I am praying for peace because without peace hatred will never end. She pointed to the massacre in April in whom 147 people were killed after the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab militant group burst into a Garissa University College dormitory and shot students and took hostages. In 2013, Al-Shabaab attacked the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, overtaking it for four days, killing 67 people and injuring more than 175. The gunmen were also killed.

Using her song and story, Wavai is advocating for all to work towards peace, love and unity.

“Look at me after going through all this,” she said. “I’ve made peace within myself first. I made peace with my children and I’ve made peace with my community. I want peace to come all over the world.”