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The Family International South Africa

Combating Disease and Starvation
After spending 2004 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), carrying out humanitarian projects and sharing the message of God’s love in Jesus, escalating violence in the country’s ongoing civil war forced us out. Recently, four of us returned for six weeks.
All in a Day
Lesotho Academy of Arts is a school that we visit and help on our mission trips to Lesotho. When we arrived this month, the staff was quite discouraged. They had no gas for cooking, little paraffin for heating, no phone, almost no electricity, and no food!
Blankets and warm clothes for over 200 children
The winter had been particularly cold and we wanted to give all our Sunday school children something to keep them warm, many who attend barefoot and with ragged clothes. We identified the neediest children and gave out 15 warm, fleecy blankets. The next week we gave out fifty more, one to a family.
Aid to AIDS Sufferers
Over the past eight years we have had an ongoing project in the Khayelitsha Township. We worked with a community health worker named Mildred and an architect named Mr. Smart who had volunteered his services to help the poor of this community build better housing.