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2008 Articles (26)

Mother and Baby Support Group
Through this project we support a total of 19 HIV-positive mothers and their babies.
Project Hope
Project Hope currently administers the following programmes: HIV/AIDS counseling Bible-based education that promotes lifestyle changes that help in HIV/AIDS infection prevention HIV/AIDS awareness seminars Counseling Conflict resolution Collecting and distributing highly nutrit
More on Steps to Education
Our Steps to Education project started in 2006. Steps to Education addresses the urgent need in our modern society to reinforce positive values in children, helping educators and parents to take education beyond just academics, providing moral and character-building material for their training.

2007 Articles (9)

Katakwi Flood Relief
When the floods struck in the north east of our country in 2007, hundreds of thousands of people were stranded without access to food, roads, or hope. We were contacted by a local charity organization that had previously helped fund our relief efforts to the needy.
Karimojong Widows
We took a 10-ton truck to Nakapiripirit-Namalu in Karamoja, where a friend ran a camp for some very needy widows and children.
Orphans from Lira and Katakwi
A local pastor, Peter Obua, was formerly a soldier when he found out he was HIV positive. He then had an amazing experience with Jesus, which changed his life.

2006 Articles (7)

Educational and Community Support, Enugu and Ufuma, Anambra State
In collaboration with volunteers from Family Care's Port Harcourt office, we again donated food, cloth­ing, and other items (which included much needed baby formula for the infants) to our partner orphan­ages: Guardian Angels Motherless Babies Home, Holy Child Motherless Babies Home, and DDL Orphana
Lagos Christmas Party for Underprivileged Children
Christmas started early this year for over 300 children from orphanages, remand (detention) homes, handicapped centres, and schools throughout Lagos State.
Ibadan Dental Project
We recently carried out another small-scale healthcare initiative in Ibadan, Oyo State.

2003 Articles (2)

Free Medical Project
Our latest free medical project took place in a village in the southeast of Nigeria where there are many intertribal conflicts and violent power struggles over the area's oil wealth.
Educational Aid for Nomadic Schools
Our destination was a nomadic settlement school in the Niger Republic, West Africa. As the settlement wasn't easily accessible by vehicle, the best way to get there was the same way the locals do—by camel. So off we went, with the school supplies and food supplements tied securely to each saddle.

2002 Articles (1)

Showers of Blessings
It had been an unusually cold and wet week. In fact, half of our team was stuck in Durban due to snow on the mountain pass between there and home. (Yes, this is Africa!