The cutest way to start your Friday, yes?

We are so grateful for all the support given to our Orphan Care + Vulnerable Children project. It means we all get to continue seeing smiles on the beautiful faces of well fed, well taken care of, well educated children.

Food glorious food!

Though it looks pretty different than what Americans eat on a daily basis, this food is nutritious and provided multiple times a day to these kids thanks to those who support our Orphan Care + Vulnerable Children project.

The boys at the home in Nyamlel, Sudan wait in line for their afternoon meal. This home is able to provide food and many other necessities to over 400 boys and girls.

Your support of our Orphan Care + Vulnerable Children project ensures that this home continues to be a safe haven for many children.

Our home in Nyamlel, Sudan provides safety for over 400 boys and girls. These children are now protected from both the slave raiders and potential hyena attacks and are provided with complete care – food, education, spiritual direction, medical care, and vocational training.

You can support this home by joining with our Orphan Care + Vulnerable Children project.

We love our little friend Vincent, one of the kids that Mocha Club has helped build a safe home for in Nyamlel, Sudan.

That smile. Who can resist it?

You can support this home in Nyamlel by joining with our Orphan Care + Vulnerable Children project.

The Fly Me To The Show tour is probably coming to a city near you. Check the schedule, grab a ticket, throw on your Mocha Club swag, and have a great time!

Grab a picture with the band and send it to us- we love seeing pictures of our members with our artists. We’ll add it to the MC Artists + You facebook album!

Nothing starts a day off better than hearing laughter from a group of kids.

Support our Orphan Care + Vulnerable Children project and be a part of those smiles.

Or maybe you have seen it on our Facebook page.

Now a bit of an explanation.

Each of our members, like you, pick one of our five projects to support (Education, Clean Water, Child Mothers + Women at Risk, HIV/AIDS + Healthcare, Orphan Care + Vulnerable Children). And though you do get monthly updates, we wanted to give you a bit more.

We realized that sitting right here under our very noses were piles and piles of video tape from each of those projects. (Okay, not really piles. But files. Files and files.)

So we wanted to start showing you those files and files. From every project. From seven different countries in Africa. From summer and winter. Families. Kids. Schools. Wells. Clinics. Women. Men. All of it.

Every day, Monday through Friday, you can expect a ten second video from the Mocha Club vault. Watch it. Share it. Show the world where your $7 is going every month.

Here is Today’s 10 Seconds. Hope you enjoy these short clips of the projects that you are making possible.

Have you missed some of the videos from the last few months? Just check our Today’s 10 Seconds section of the blog.

We are caring for orphans everyday.

You can too. Join with our Orphan Care + Vulnerable Children project to help us meet the educational, medical, physical, and spiritual needs of these kids.

Janet and her grandchildren

Over the next few months, we’ll be introducing you to some of the individual families who are being helped by the Grace Orphan Project that MC supports in Sunyani, Ghana.

This is Janet and her 3 grandchildren: Samuel is 9-years-old, Solomon is 6-years-old, and a little girl who is 3-years-old.   Janet does not have any extended family to assist any way.  She also lives in a separate dwelling, not a compound, so she is absolutely alone.  This setup is very strenuous for this old woman who is fully responsible for the grandchildren. Two of the children are from her daughter who left the kids with her and seldom visits and is too poor to send any money. The other child is from her son who is now dead.  To earn money, Janet heats the palm nut and extracts oil for sale.

In this area of Ghana, most households live way below the poverty line and do not have access to social security, state welfare, or food stamps.  They do not have any medical insurance and are unable to cover any medical costs whatsoever (not even aspirin for headaches). They barely make it from day to day.  Subsistence farming is the main characteristic of each household.  Most of the households are comprised of a grandmother taking care of grandchildren who have either lost one or both parents and are therefore considered orphans.

As you can see, life there is quite different from here in the U.S. where there is federal or state assistance available for those living in poverty.

Through MC’s Orphan Care program, Janet’s grandchildren are provided with education, school uniforms, shoes, and school supplies.  Thank you for your sacrifice to help serve the children of Ghana.