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A day in the life of a “street-child”

The nights are often penetratingly cold in Nairobi and without blankets or any form of shelter, the cold rain and damp ground can make a night seem excruciatingly long. The three young boys huddle up on a piece of cardboard and cover themselves with a sack and a piece of plastic on top of their [ . . . ]

YOU GO TO JAIL

Yesterday after a long day of visiting children’s homes, I was heading back to my accommodation for the night. As we approached town, our car was abruptly stopped by a police officer who came out of the darkness. Seeing me in the car he accused me of making a traffic violation and demanded that I [ . . . ]

Interview with AfriCulture

Article can be found here Lift The Children is an humanitarian organization focused on helping abandoned African children by providing; a safe, nurturing and loving environment. The orphans are given shelter, food, education and proper healthcare. Lift The Children is committed to ensuring the children receive proper education, stating “Lift the Children makes a solemn [ . . . ]

NOW WE EAT WELL

Today we visited St. Dorcus Children’s home. We started supporting them two months ago and the effect has been rather dramatic. The whole disposition of the children is much brighter. They have been able to go from two meals a day to three and the meals have become more nutritious. They were also able to [ . . . ]

Thank You from Faith Children Home

We had a lovely note of appreciation and picture sent to us today from Faith Childrens Home: Dear Lift the Children, Greetings from the Children of Faith Children Home, Mombasa Kenya. We thank you for your monthly support in our project. Through your support we have been able to increase the number of orphan children [ . . . ]

CAN YOU SPARE A TOMATO

As we render assistance to the children’s homes of Africa we find that they often use our funding in order to buy food for the children. The most expensive food includes meat, fruits and vegetables. With the objective of helping them become self sustaining we have started teaching them methods whereby they can obtain these [ . . . ]

Champions of Africa

One of the joys of our work here in Arica is coming to know the wonderful men and women who care for these sweet children. I call them champions for that is truly what they are. In most cases they have devoted everything they have to the care of the children. They live in abject [ . . . ]

No Ball to Play

On my travels through Mozambique I came across a children’s home in a remote part of the country. The children were aged from 6 to 16. They seemed to be fairly well cared for but spent most of their time sitting around with not much to do. I noticed a basketball hoop that had been [ . . . ]

PATHWAY TO KIBERA

As part of one of our service trips we had determined to build a feeding center in the slum of Kibera. Unfortunately, the path to the center took us through raw sewage, mud and slime. We decided that we would construct a clean pathway for the use of all the public in the area. We [ . . . ]

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