- Mandela Day
- Nelson Mandela’s birthday is celebrated every year throughout the country but last year it became an official United Nations Day.
- HIV programs
- A team of our volunteers travelled to Phalaborwa in Limpopo to conduct HIV/AIDS programs for rural schools, where they were very well received. We received thank you letters with the following comments:
“Our learners have received several workshops and lectures on the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
- Olives Rehabilitation Center
- Objectives of the Olives Rehabilitation Center
The Olives Rehabilitation Center is a compassionate Christian response program, which aims to assist children at risk from neglect, abuse, and malnutrition due to extreme poverty.
- Food Distribution Scheme, Nairobi
- Weekly Feeding Program highlights:
Food staples e.g. maize, rice and beans are regularly distributed by our Family Care Missions volunteers.
- Food Distribution
- Through sponsorship from the Lion’s Club, Durbanville, we received over ten tons of rice, samp (cornmeal mush), beans, and split peas to distribute. Volunteers helped unload this massive amount of food and piled it high on 16 palettes.
- "12 Foundation Stones" Training Courses
- Since the beginning of 2004, The Family International in Port Harcourt has been running the 12 Foundation Stones Bible study course.
- Life Caring Orphanage
- Recently we began working with the “Life Caring Orphanage”, which cares for orphans from babyhood until they are grown and able to care for themselves. We’ve recently delivered 13 brand new mattresses for the orphans and donated a freezer, and other food items.
- Clinic Update 2008
- Through the generous sponsorship of Small World and GOLF we have expanded the equipment at the Family Care Ikota Clinic in order to increase and improve the medical services provided for the community. We now have a complete dental unit, greatly increasing the dental procedures we’re now capable of.
- Mother and Baby Support Group Highlights
- Micro Businesses Bring Economic Empowerment
We received sponsorship to initiate micro businesses for the members of our Mother’s Club for HIV positive women and their babies. We supplied the women with products of their choice to the value of R1,000 each.
- Ikota Community Clinic
- Family project Family Care Association sponsored construction, equipping, and commencing operations of a model free/subsidized healthcare clinic in Ikota community in Lagos state. We are working toward a plan to replicate this initiative in all six geopolitical zones of the country.
- Christmas at an Orphanage
- During Christmas 2007, we participated in a Christmas program for an orphanage in Enugu State. The venue, food, and drinks we’re all donated by sponsors.
- Helping Hand, Cape Town - 2007 Statistics
- (Email: helpinghand@telkomsa.net; Tel: 072 4437846)
We were able to locally collect and distribute ZAR 3,191,584 worth of goods during 2007 (approximately 280,000 euros).
- Katakwi Flood Relief
- When the floods struck in the northeast region of our country in 2007, hundreds of thousands of people were stranded without access to food, roads, or hope. We were contacted by a local charity organization that had previously helped fund our relief efforts to the needy.
- Jesus' Birthday Party
- It was fun from beginning to end for 300 underprivileged children who attended our Fantasyland Christmas party.
- Hands-On Humanitarian Aid
- During our latest humanitarian aid trip to Ibadan, Oyo State, we distributed 70 bags of rice to several centers and underprivileged families, as well as some very out-of-the-way hostels for cancer patients.
- Educational and Community Support, Enugu and Ufuma, Anambra State
- In collaboration with volunteers from Family Care's Port Harcourt office, we again donated food, clothing, and other items (which included much needed baby formula for the infants) to our partner orphanages: Guardian Angels Motherless Babies Home, Holy Child Motherless Babies Home, and DDL
- Free Medical Project
- Our latest free medical project took place in a village in the southeast of Nigeria where there are many intertribal conflicts and violent power struggles over the area's oil wealth.
- Educational Aid for Nomadic Schools
- Our destination was a nomadic settlement school in the Niger Republic, West Africa. As the settlement wasn't easily accessible by vehicle, the best way to get there was the same way the locals do—by camel. So off we went, with the school supplies and food supplements tied securely to each saddle.
- Showers of Blessings
- It had been an unusually cold and wet week. In fact, half of our team was stuck in Durban due to snow on the mountain pass between there and home. (This is Africa!
