I WILL NOT STOP

This was the first line of a WhatsApp message we received from Oscar in Burundi. We have mentioned Oscar before. He is a Celebrating Children Workshop (CCW) graduate who is doing astounding work in Burundi. Patient Endurance marks his life in so many ways. Oscar has a denominational wide role overseeing the Sunday school and…

MERCY HAS HOPE

Boko Haram. Chibok girls. We know the names from the international news. Conflicts are forgotten by those of us living far away, but ongoing terrorism affects the vulnerable of all faiths.  Being in Northern Nigeria allowed us to ask more questions to help us understand the real impact. Who was being served by the participants…

Knowledge Is Power

In Arusha in February I was teaching the Healthcare module. Quite honestly I had already decided that in the big curriculum update we are in the middle of working on, we would ax some of this material. But I started to go through the basics of nutrition, going quickly through the major food groups, essential…

Hope is a Hospital

Many years ago I read an article that stuck with me. It stated that the greatest danger facing a woman in Afghanistan is to get pregnant. This fact shook me. Yet, our experience in East Africa confirms this, 87% of global maternal deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.   Edward, who oversees the Engikaret…

Hope For Sumaya

In the 1980’s there was a popular Paul Simon song, “Graceland” and from that song the Ugandan training location, Hopeland was named. At that stage, Uganda was recovering from a war that was devastating to the entire nation, after which came the HIV Aids epidemic, bringing with it even more destruction.  It was in this…