...and not a bit wiser
Day to day thoughts of someone who is just passing through this world.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Concrete Dam in Mbeere, Kenia
Monday, February 04, 2013
A School in Lodja (DRC)
Society has been devastated. All the factories have closed down. Communication with the outside world is difficult. Once you leave the city limits the road ar impassable. Hordes of children wander from one extended family to the other. Parents often have alcohol problems and cannot give their children any kind of example.
Pierre-Albert and Beatrice Ngueliele oved from Bussels to Lodja a number of years ago. They went to do a classical missions ministry. However the problems they met changed their outlook. The market was empty of any vegatables und basic commodoties were head to get. People -Christians- sat around hoping that God was going to change things and through a miracle everything would change.
Pierre-Albert began to teach the people that if they didn't put seeds in the ground, there would be no harvest. God's provision was all around. People didn't respond too quickly to the message.
Although Nguelieles went to the Congo with lots of promises of support from people, this support never actually materialized. However they have built a primary school and been able to give around 200 children hope for the future.
HOPE has joined them and helped to provide new desks and benches and at Christmas we provide the pupils with new uniforms.
The first batch of pupils will leave the primary school soon and we want to build a secondary school. This will have three grades and two classes in each grade - the capacity for 180 - 240 children. We hope that we can help to really make a difference in Lodja and invite you to stand with us and support this worthy project.
Women carrying water cans to provide for their families |
Friday, February 01, 2013
Tailoring training in Pakistan
Trainee tailors and dressmakers in Pakistan |
News from Kenya
It is moving to know that the children are given breakfast at 6,30 am and during the day they also get lunch. Most of them wont have anything to eat later in the day.
Education is a key factor to bringing the children out of poverty.
We are so glad that we are able to partner with EDFRI International, who's headquarters are in Meru, Kenya.
Children get their new shoes |
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
East Africa
Christmas activity
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
PAKISTAN
The governor of Punjab, Pakistan, Salmaan Taseer, was assassinated by one of his own guards on January 4, 2011. Taseer had spoken out against the nation’s blasphemy laws and was a supporter of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman imprisoned for blasphemy and facing the death sentence.
Salmaan Taseer, governor of Pakistan’s most populous province, was gunned down by a member of his team of guards on January 4, 2011. His death comes three years after former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated. Taseer was considered “one of [Bhutto’s] most prominent supporters.”
Taseer’s killer said he committed this murder as “punishment for a blasphemer.”
The governor had spoken out about Pakistan’s vaguely worded blasphemy laws, calling them harsh and unfair. “These laws are used to victimize Christians and other groups,” Taseer said.
He was one of only a few officials in Pakistan who defended Asia Bibi, a Christian woman convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to death. Because of this support, “Taseer was threatened with fatwas demanding his death and fundamentalist parties mounted demonstrations against him.”
Taseer was not frightened by the protests and intimidation. “It was more important that he speak up for those who had long been suffering in silence.”
According to analysts, Taseer’s assassination has “plunged Pakistan into deeper instability…”
Taken from Praying through the Window