Boosting Confidence Through Learning

It took vision and commitment this past year to launch the Zambia Learning Centres, each one operating on church property and geared towards the kids our Zambia church partners already serve through community outreach.   The work was worth it! Already, the Learning Centres are fairly bursting at the seams with children and teens. From an eagerness for National Exam prep help, to computer skills, to music instruction, to nutrition & health information, and Bible quiz competitions, it is the keen interest from the kids themselves that is driving the demand for the academic, personal, and spiritual support these centres offer!  …

Hope Within a Dangerous Situation 

Taken in by an impoverished aunt after being abandoned by her parents who also left Trina’s siblings to various relatives, Trina* was a teenage girl living in a dangerous situation. If it were not for the watchful care of a classmate’s mom, she might still be living in an unhealthy and unsafe home environment.  Trina was exposed to the constant threat of abuse from a stream of older men who showed up where she lived every day to purchase (and drink) her aunt’s home-brewed beer.  Thankfully her classmate’s mom, Mary*, noticed and understood the danger Trina was in at her …