Miles In Missions

When Emma and I put together our 3-year plan for C.A.R.E. Africa we knew we wanted to find a way to help the orphans of Egbe. We didn’t want to start an orphanage, but we wanted to find a way to help. A home care program was what we envisioned would be the most effective. Empower an orphan through education and discipleship while educating the caretaker too. Again, this was a part of our three-year vision for C.A.R.E Africa…. until 3 boys came to work at Egbe Hospital.

13 year old Success and Wale came to sign up for temporary labor one Monday morning at Egbe Hospital. Lenny of course looked at them and told them they were too small. They begged him to let them work because they wanted to make money for school fees. They explained they were orphans living with their grandmothers. Lenny brought them to me to see what C.A.R.E. Africa could do. I sat the boys down to talk and they would barely speak or smile. I called Emma and he was able to pull out of them all of the trials they had been through over the years.

The following day we had the joy of meeting the grandmothers.  After hearing their stories of abandonment and poverty, my heart was broken. These elderly women had been raising these boys for years with absolutely nothing. How could we just stand by and continue to watch these grandmothers struggle and these boys beg for money so they could go to school? Emma and I were not ready to start the Home Care program but God evidentially was.

We currently have the boys enrolled in school. They are in school till 5pm everyday and then come on Saturdays for tutoring and Bible time with Katie,  then mentorship with Emma. Every week we are contacting the school to check on performance, grades and conduct. Bi-weekly we are making home visits and have a curriculum that includes everything from Hygiene to saving money.

We are excited that this week we have four more applicants, one of which is a beautiful Mu$im Fulani girl.  Emma and I both are enjoying  watching God drive this as it was not part of our agenda. This make it so much more sweeter. There are plenty of children in Egbe that need God’s love and protection. Will you help us help them?

To enroll a child in school and buy them a backpack, books and school supplies is $225 and then every term the cost is $95 for them to continue. Would you prayerfully consider sending an orphan in Egbe to school? Click on this link Egbe Education to send a child to school.