Challenges in Zimbabwe Offer Opportunities

In Zimbabwe 34% of the population lives with AIDS. This impacts the family unit and increases the burden on relatives to try to care for orphaned children. Nearly every individual living in Zimbabwe has lost, or is losing, an immediate member of his or her family to HIV/AIDS. There is no place left to go. This overwhelming challenge offers the church (in North America and in Zimbabwe) an opportunity to be the hands of Jesus.

This month we reach out with God’s love to AIDS orphans in Zimbabwe by supporting five-day camps. Each camp offers children the opportunity to learn Biblically-based life skills. These training workshops are interspersed with counseling, singing praise songs, and sports. The Gospel is presented during morning and evening devotions. One week of camp, with food and accommodation for 80 children, costs $3,500.

As we look up to the One Who brings justice to orphans and listens to their cries, and reach out with the money God provides, we can make a difference…one child at a time.