Our child spotlight today is 7-year-old Chisomo. One night, the police and social welfare came to the orphanage asking Blessings to go with them. A baby had been born in a graveyard. They all went to the graveyard and found the mother and the baby, Chisomo. The mother and her baby were taken to the […]
Our child spotlight for today is sweet Favor. Favor was brought to the orphanage by the chief of her village when she was only a year old. Her Mother is blind and was unable to care for her. Thankfully, Favor was able to find a home at the orphanage and people to take care of […]
Our child spotlight this week is 15-year-old, Misozi! Misozi is HIV Positive. She contracted HIV from her parents. Misozi’s parents died when she was 3 years old. After the death of her parents, Misozi went to live with her aunt. Her aunt was unable to take care of Misozi’s health needs, so at 4 years […]
It’s the most important time of the year! As the crops of maize, rice and beans are collected from fields in districts all around Salima, El-Shaddaih Orphanage must set out to collect enough of these dry goods to last for a year’s consumption. This initial investment allows us to buy in bulk, conserve financial resources […]
On March 20th, we published a post about Cyclone Freddy and the current needs of the orphanage. One of the major needs listed was $40,000 to build a new boy’s dorm. The current dorm had water damage, would flood when it stormed, and more room was needed to house all of the boys. OUR PRAYERS […]
The El-Shaddaih Orphanage has welcomed 4 new children into its arms. Blessings (the orphanage director) was contacted by social welfare of Salima and 4 children were brought to the orphanage. The children had been abandoned by their parents and without food for quite a few days. Although food is scarce everywhere in Malawi, these children […]
Cyclone Freddy, the longest lasting storm of its kind, made landfall for the second time in a two-week period in southeastern Africa. Today we read that it has claimed 400 precious lives in Malawi and more in Mozambique. The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers, friends and family search through the collapsed mud/brick […]
El-Shaddiah Orphanage Update I thought it was a good time to update you all on what is going on at the El-Shaddaih Orphanage in Malawi. Much like the USA is in turmoil, the country of Malawi is in turmoil too. A couple of things; Blessings called us a week ago and was more upset than […]
I just checked the weather in Malawi on my weather app. Trusty device. I can know how it feels 10,000 miles away in less than 5 seconds. 74 degrees, clear with periodic clouds, a steady breeze and no chance of rain. If one looked at the forecast today, they might say, “What beautiful weather, sounds […]
There is once again a need at the orphanage! There are actually so many needs, but we are going to talk about the one that is most currently pressing. Going back to our last post, we updated everyone on the floods that were devastating Malawai. The orphanage was not spared from the devastation of the […]
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