Foreign Aid

The Beauty of a Little Smile

April 16, 2010 South Africa

I don’t know how I managed to catch this little fella with anything other than a smile on that sweet little face. He was happily playing in the dirt the first time I noticed him. His joy was contagious. Sometimes seeing people who have so little and are so happy challenges me to the core. [...]

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I Have Three Gabillion Stories to Tell You

April 15, 2010 South Africa

Guys and gals! I mean it! I have three gabillion stories to tell you. We had our first shoe distribution today in a township not too far from the Muizenberg section of Cape Town called Overcome Heights. It’s a very poor area where some 6,000 people just showed up and built a settlement in three [...]

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YOU, yes YOU, can help in Haiti!

January 23, 2010 Uncategorized

Hi dear ones! I am excited to share with you about this opportunity, because I hope some of you folks in the North Carolina, or USA area will answer the call! Our dear friends Frank and Sharon Dees run a wonderful missions organisation back in NC called Youth On Mission (YOM)and they are organising trips [...]

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Hope for Haiti

January 17, 2010 Uncategorized

I thought I’d share this website with you in case you haven’t come across it yet. At the Hope For Haiti blogspot, there are lots of cool giveaways, you can win some great prizes, and each dollar you contribute goes toward relief efforts in Haiti AND counts as an entry for whatever prize you’re hoping to [...]

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Our Hearts are in Haiti

January 16, 2010 Stories
Haiti Donate Online

As I’m sure many of you have been feeling, my heart aches as I see all the destruction and devastation resulting from the earthquakes in Haiti. We don’t have TV at home, but when we’re at the gym I’ve been watching the news footage constantly, and it is such a strange and unsettling and surreal [...]

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Storytime: Arriving in Cape Town

September 24, 2009 South Africa
Asher wasn

Flying from Johannesburg to Cape Town was a peaceful two hours. Looking out the plane window, you first see the clay-red rooftops of the houses in Joburg fading into the distance, along with the tall shiny buildings of the city centre, the phone lines, and the blue of the backyard swimming pools. And then sometimes, [...]

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Atheist says "Africa Needs God."

March 2, 2009 The Good Word

As an atheist, I truly believe Africa needs God | Matthew Parris – Times Online . Missionaries, not aid money, are the solution to Africa’s biggest problem – the crushing passivity of the people’s mindset by Matthew Parris Before Christmas I returned, after 45 years, to the country that as a boy I knew as [...]

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