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Community Support
December 31, 2010 No CommentsProgram Summary. Extended family members, not institutions, care for the vast majority of orphans. CSCM equips widows and extended family members to provide loving home environments for children who have lost their parents. Facts. CSCM works with Deaconess of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kenya to identity children in desperate need. Over 90% of orphans live with their extended family members. Hope for 2011. CSCM frequently identifies families, widows, and children in desperate need of assistance. Due to a sickness in the family or ...
Strengthening Families
December 17, 2010 No CommentsThe orphan care crisis in Africa is not going away. Extended families are and will continue to be on the front lines providing care for children who have lost their parents. As these families are members of Christian congregations all over Kenya, the church plays a powerful role in reaching out to orphans and other children in vulnerable situations. Many have responded to this call. Christians in the United States and around the world have extended hands of mercy in ...
Dago Medical Clinic
September 30, 2010 No CommentsEvery Tuesday, Deaconesses travel from around Western Kenya to attend tuesday Bible study at the Dago Resource Center. Their work is tough. They often experience the difficulty of dealing with children who have lost both parents and have nowhere to go. Without the necessary resources, the Deaconesses are unable to find help for many of these children. They come begging, but there is nothing to give them. Tuesday is a day to regroup and fellowship together after another difficult week. This ...
One Thousand Strong
November 26, 2009 No CommentsBevon and his little brother. The sun rises. A twelve-year-old boy sits up from the floor of his small one-room house and begins to get ready for school. Trying not to wake up his baby brother, he slips on his uniform and shoes. Grabbing his book-bag, he checks the status of the thin thread that is strung on the noticeable hole near the bottom to make sure his books do not slide out. His stomach growls, but today, like most ...
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