Supplies You Helped Provide in Darfur

Posted by christine, June 27, 2007

Thanks to your gracious donations through Mocha Club, we were recently able to send $115,000 to our partners in Sudan to purchase 5,300 blankets for the refugees there, along with tarps and medical supplies.

In the words of our local partner in Sudan…

“Trucks are continuing to pour into Northern Aweil from Darfur and drop off thousands of refugees in the community. The situation is very critical. Our wells are continually being used 24 hours a day and we are constantly repairing broken pumps that have simply been overworked. This proposal covers the need for blankets in the Jach area. When it rains, the temperature can dip 50 degrees or more, going from 130 to 80 degrees. This radical fluctuation, combined with malaria-carrying mosquitoes during the wet season is very hard on the young and old people in the community.”

Friends, thanks to YOU, we were able to provide the 5,300 blankets needed, and other supplies, too!
Just to give you an idea of how costly it is to fly in supplies to this remote region…

EMERGENCY BLANKET DISTRIBUTION TO JACH:

5,300 Blankets – $18,550

Flight to Jach – $16,500

Shipping from Nairobi to Loki – $1,650

TOTAL COST FOR RELIEF FLIGHT: $36,700

As you can see, your continued help is greatly needed…

>> See more recent photos from Jach, Sudan.

>> Find out how else you can help the refugees in Sudan.

Living Hope Community Update

Posted by christine,

The following is an update from Living Hope Community Centre near Cape Town, South Africa. Living Hope is helped by those of you supporting HIV/AIDS.

Red Hill Medical Outreach

The rain and blustery weather did not stop a 17-member Living Hope team who on April 27, Freedom Day, went to Red Hill, one of the most needy of the informal settlements in Cape Town, to give as much medical support help as they could to 200 people there.

Working from the Living Hope container clinic, they tested residents for the HIV virus, did pregnancy tests, and checked people for diabetes and high blood pressure. Some of the group also washed and examined the feet of residents to detect the early onset of diabetes.

Part of the day’s program included educational health talks to help people cope with a variety of diseases. There was also a special fun program for the children, and delicious and healthy snacks were served at lunch time. It is hoped this show of God’s love and compassion will strengthen Living Hope’s outreach in the area.

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Clinton’s Ministry

Every Wednesday afternoon Clinton Losper, Living Hope Life Skills worker, heads from his Muizenberg office to Capricorn to meet with 80 or more children there. This is what he waits for every week, his chance to touch the lives of children whose homes are broken and whose heroes are drug lords. His face wreathed in a smile Clinton says, “I am totally in love with this job.”

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Clinton’s life was almost destroyed by alcohol. When his parents’ marriage fell apart, he was crushed. God’s grace surrounded him however because he never became involved with the gangsters in his community. The biggest change however was when he turned everything over to Christ.Now Clinton sees this opportunity with Living Hope as his chance to be a role model to these under-privileged children to show them God’s love. He has the added joy now of teaching the Bible to 18 of those kids who have opened their hearts to Jesus Christ. He encourages each of them with those life-changing words from Jeremiah 29:11. “I know the plans I have for you,” God says.

Feeding the Community

Living Hope has sought to partner with community organizations to facilitate the feeding of people in Capricorn. A grateful group of women from the community thank the Lord for His provision before beginning the preparation.

Breakfast for Grace Orphanage Orphans

Posted by christine,

We thought we’d share some testimonies with you from the orphans you’re supporting at Grace Orphanage in Sunyani, Ghana. They are so thankful for your support. Even just the simple gift of food for breakfast means so much in their day-to-day…

“The money you have been given to me to buy food and the school has been a great moral help. It has been helping me to come to school all the time. My parents are poor and cannot give me food every morning, when I am going to school. But through this program I have been eating every morning when I come to school.” – Atta Kwame, Junior High, Odumasi Meth (J.H. 1)

“At first, I sometimes come to school with empty stomach to learn. But now because of the program African Leadership is running in my school, I eat every morning and I am happy to be in school.” – Asuman Patrick, Odumasi Meth Primary School (Primary 5).

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