Making a difference

One of my work colleagues asked me "How can you make a difference in Africa?". There is a story where a boy came across a beach covered in dying starfish. He started to pick them up, throwing them back in the sea. His mother asked "how can you hope to make a difference here". The boy said "well, I made a difference to that one... and that one..."

"...whatever you did for one of the least of these, you did for me" Matt 25:40


If you want to make a difference consider coming to Uganda, the Dominican Republic or Sierra Leone, follow the link to Mission Direct.

Alice & John's story

It is now 10 days till I leave for Uganda. The charity I am working for (Mission Direct) is aiming to help to build school classrooms and dormitories for AIDS orphans. Let me tell you John & Alice's story..............

John & Alice were working on building their own lives and family when in 1989 their daughter Caroline asked if a friend whose parents had recently died of AIDS could come for Christmas. So Barabara and her 2 brothers arrived.... and stayed.... By 1992 Alice & John had 10 orphans and soon after there were 25 children living with them. Alice & John could not afford to educate all the children so they set up their own primary school and by the end of the first term were educating 120 children. The school now has 650 students - 200 resident. Alice and John need more accomodation to house and teach the children as they know of another 100 that would like to come but for which there is no space. Mission Direct want to build 4 more dormitories and 4 more classrooms in order to both accomadate more children and to eliviate some of the overcrowding.

The picture shows the classrooms already there - we hope to replicate this.