We are so excited to share this news with you: the Boys’ Orphanage in Nyamlel, Sudan is finally complete! Mocha Club helped build the Girls’ Orphanage in 2007, and the boys were waiting for their home. Our partners in Sudan faced many challenges in getting the materials to Sudan to complete the home for the boys, but now it’s done!
A note from Kimberly Smith of Make Way Partners, the organization in Sudan that we have partnered with…
It is hard for me to believe that six summers have passed since mine and Milton’s eyes were first opened to one of the harshest realities of life: billions of dollars in profit reaped each year from the enslavement, forced prostitution and pornography of children. Facing this evil shook us so deeply that we simply could not do nothing. We wanted to go to the worst places in the world, where no other help was available to protect the most vulnerable children.
Beginning with a modest food and medical program for 153 orphans, while building schools to offer hope in the future, we thought we were doing great. That is, until we learned that in one single ten month period, we lost 278 orphans in our small community from wild dog or hyena attack! We were saving the children from slave raiders only so they could be devoured by wildlife!
But the obstacles seemed too formidable and many to overcome. For starters, Make Way Partners was a fledgling organization, our nearest supply chain for building materials was nearly 2,000 miles away with no roads or bridges to cover the terrain, bandits and militias would threaten us at every turn and most folks called us fools to attempt something that larger, older, more powerful organizations would not dare risk. Yet, there was God’s still small voice, “Move forward.”
We obeyed. You joined us. God honored our collective desire to be used. He provided protection even when our drivers were repeatedly held hostage. Never once did we pay a penny for ransom and never once did we lose so much as a nail to our captors. Prayer and standing firm, as He directed, released them every single time.
Now, we celebrate the miraculous deliverance of 500 orphans! Our 100 acres in Nyamlel is well developed with a church, medical clinic, security fence, schools and not one, but three safe homes for all the children.”
THANK YOU, MOCHA CLUB, FOR HELPING MAKE THIS POSSIBLE!
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Hi. COngratulations!
I was wondering… What language do the orphans speak? And which do you use to communicate with them?
Good luck!
Comment by Caco — December 8, 2009 @ 12:28 pm