Overseas Aid
In February 2009, I travelled with a “Samaritans Purse International” team from the UK to Swaziland to distribute gifts donated to the “Operation Christmas Child” project.
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In August 2007, I travelled with a team from the UK to Brazil to visit the “University of Life” in Fortaleza on the North coast of Brazil. Many children in Brazil drop out of school at an early age and end up on the streets. The University of Life was formed in 1990 to help those living in a slum area of the beach resort town of Fortaleza on the North East coast of Brazil. At the University of Life children are given extra education and encouragement to make it through the state system, enabling them to have a better chance of obtaining a job.
As well as giving them a good education, the project operates with a Christian ethic, providing a loving and secure atmosphere in which to learn and flourish.
To help prevent the slum children becoming street children this project assists them with their state school homework and offers the children classes in sports, drama, music, English, typing, computing and Christianity. A nutritional meal, dental and medical assistance are also provided along with 'horizon broadening' excursions to the zoo and other areas.
To help prevent the slum children becoming street children this project assists them with their state school homework and offers the children classes in sports, drama, music, English, typing, computing and Christianity. A nutritional meal, dental and medical assistance are also provided along with 'horizon broadening' excursions to the zoo and other areas.
Brazil 2007
Swaziland 2009
- If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than
the million who will not survive this week.
- If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation, you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.
- If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest, torture, or
death, you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.
- If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.
- If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.
- If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not.
- If you can hold someone's hand, hug them or even touch them on the shoulder, you are blessed because you can offer a healing touch.
- If you can read this message, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Food for Thought...