Charles Mully had one of the most difficult childhoods when he was left to die at the tender age of six years.
Until then, he had spent many nights on an empty stomach having been born in abject poverty.
Mully’s father was an alcoholic who could not hold onto jobs and the family survived on the little her mother could get from casual jobs.
In a past interview with The Gospel Herald, Mully recounted, “I was raised very poor; my father was an alcoholic who abused me and my brother. One day, I woke up and discovered my family had left. That was a very difficult time in my life.”
When he was abandoned, Mully depended on the goodwill of neighbours to survive and after as a teenager, he moved to Nairobi to fend for himself.
Being a minor, he was unable to secure employment and scavenged through dustbins for survival.
Determined to defy odds, he knocked on doors begging for any form of job.
His fortunes changed when he was given a domestic job by an Asian family who also provided him with basic needs.
“When I knocked on their home, a lady asked me what I wanted and I begged her to give me a job or at least food.
“She looked at my tattered self and was overcome with pity, she took me in and I started helping around the house,” Mully recalled the first time in life he got family life.
Seeing how disciplined and hardworking Mully was, the husband who was working then at a Kenyan agricultural cultivation and manufacturing company offered him a job at the company.
“I worked and climbed through the ranks and in a short time I had become a wealthy person,” he revealed of his journey.
Through prudent investments, Mully became one of the richest Kenyans amassing millions in cash and property.
“It never felt right. I never got used to the money. I was still haunted by the years I spent as a street kid with nothing to eat,” Mully recalled how he was unable to enjoy his riches.
With his wife, they decided to use all the money to help poor children by starting a children’s home.
“People thought I was crazy. It has not been an easy journey. My wife and I have experienced rejection and mockery from those around us. But God did not fail us,” he remarked on his decision to give away his wealth.
The Mully Children’s Family (MCF) was started in 1989 and over the years it has helped over 15,000 children through rescue, holistic rehabilitation and reintegration.
MCF is currently ranked the largest rehabilitation organisation in Africa and Mully and his life journey was captured in a documentary named Mully Movie.
