We heard about a team in Worcester doing their best to alleviate the suffering caused by lack of work and food during this time. We were glad to be able to give them a variety of essential items and foodstuffs, enabling them to make quite a few more parcels for families that side. They sent pictures of some of those that benefited!
When driving back from a major food parcel distribution, we noticed a group of men, women, and children standing on a little ridge on the side of the main road, holding up simple signs that tore at our hearts…
… “Out of Food” …”Please Help With Anything” …”Hungry”
A man whom we have been ministering to for several years contacted us asking for help for desperate families in his area -especially single moms, kids, and elderly. He himself was a convict years back, and now that he found Christ and new meaning, is doing all he can to lift up others. Thanks to sponsors both in funds and in kind, we could make up a comprehensive parcel for each family – something to help encourage and enable them to keep going till things improve.
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These sweet children from our weekly Sunday School (and other kids from the settlement) got a food parcel with basic foodstuffs and necessities, to try to ease their extreme plight during CoViD-19 Lockdown.* This was a much appreciated event, with the children very glad to see us and spend a little time together after weeks of no Sunday School. We miss them too, and are so grateful to have been able to show a little love and care, to help them make it through.
A children’s home in Khayelitsha – run by three-time CNN “Woman of the Year” winner Rosie Mashale and greatly battling during this time of CoViD-19 Lockdown – recieved fresh food to help feed the many hungry mouths! (over 150 children, plus those in the frail care centre.) They also make food parcels for desperate families in the local community; we are proud and thankful to be able to assist them!
For this distribution of parcels, we started by washing and sanitizing everyone’s hands, and each adult received a reusable cloth facemask! (handmade by Angela and Amy from our mission-) Each of the 133 parcels distributed contained an assortment of fresh fruits and vegetables, plus meat, rice, sauce, bread, stock cubes, energy bars, tissue paper rolls, and an inspirational Activated magazine.
We packed hundreds of aid parcels, consisting of assorted fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as meat, rice, stock cubes, tomato paste, sauce, energy bars, bread, rolls of tissue paper, and a homemade reusable cloth face mask! (and for the children, added in a yummy treat!)
