How you can tangibly help Swaziland

This is from Gary’s blog today… will you please fight with us, this community is living and breathing because you care… James 1:27 – we are living it!

I
have had many people ask me for specific ways in which they can
tangibly help in Nsoko, Swaziland, and many have sent money for clothes
(see my blog).

Here
is a list of what we need urgently and what will help us start
educating the children and producing our self-sustainability projects…

Most of Phase One is done – the church is planted, (see video),
the community center is built and paid for (we are feeding hundreds
everyday, doing workshops on AIDS and teacher-training five days a week
in the community center), the security fence is up, and the ground is
graded.

Our immediate needs are:

• Drilling of bore hole and pump – $7500 ($5000 raised; need $2000 more)
• Electricity for whole village – $2500 (ready to be installed)
• Pastor Gift’s house – $12,000 (He will be managing on site)
• Transport to get food and medical – $375 per month (to reach all 7 care points)
• Clinic built and furnished – $19,125 (doctor has donated all med equip)
• Church building, open steel plan – $7000 We have already out grown the center!
• Sewerage $588
• For $350 a month we can provide a package of Maize, Maltabella, (porridge), Beans, Oil, Sugar, Salt and Soap for 120 kids!

  Think
  about that: for $350 a month, 120 of our “Children of the Dirt” can eat
  nutritious food once each day – this has not happened in this area for
  a long time!

The
eight orphan homes where we will house six to eight double orphans (a
double orphan is where the mom and dad are both deceased and the child
has no other family at all) are ready to go up now as we have the
construction teams waiting. A church or a business could sponsor a home
for $22,589. We have the mothers ready to move in.

Then soon after, we have to start working on the market place in
front of the village. The locals can sell all of their goods to help
with the self-sustainability of the project. Then the vegetable
gardens, the essential oil fields, and the fish ponds will need to be
in place to produce income on a monthly basis. Each double orphan will
be in charge of her own 10 meters of garden. They can sell it, buy more
meters and become their own entrepreneur. We are helping orphans to
build life skills and deinstitutionalizing them!

Remember, you can come and see all of this happening right before your eyes on our vision trip this June!

If you want to make an online donation, please click on “Give to the Nsoko Project” or click “Support Me!” and get the mailing address to send a check. Make sure and note what you are wanting to give to.