Hands On Africa

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• WATER SUPPLY: Drilling of 14 wells (bore holes) and installation of 9 water tanks catching water from roofs by adding gutters.

• Conducted successful leadership training at secondary high schools.

• WOMEN CONFERENCES: Regular opportunities to help Africa women to find their self worth in God  and teach them skills.

• PROJECT PATRICIA: They provide us with special washable sanitation kits for women in Africa. Already distributed 1557 kits.

• SCHOOLS: Supply desks, books, etc.

• LEADERSHIP TRAINING seminars in 7 local Secondary Schools and local Teachers Training College

• CONTAINERS: We have sent to date 5 containers to Africa and need to start collecting for a sixth one to be shipped to Kenya with more baseball uniforms, catchers gloves, balls, tees and bases.

• FOOD: Supply rice, beans, maize in times of special need.

• PRIMARY SCHOOLS: The school in Malawi is currently placed on hold waiting completion of our orphanage and the intake of more orphans. We are already cleared by the Malawi government and  our target date is currently September 2012, beginning of new school year.

• FARMING: In Malawi we took over the responsibility of the Grace Farming Development Program. We have a great bases to work from but need funding to can plant Soya in November 2011. This will create work opportunities for at least 50 families from the surrounding villages. Funding is also needed to treat the 7400 planted and 9000 Macadamia trees in our nursery to ensure healthy growth and protection from deceases.  We currently maintain a cow herd of 127 with 16 cows in an advanced stage of pregnancy. It is going to be a huge challenge but we hope that by next year we shall run the farm profitable. This if cause will depend much on the availability and sustainability of local markets.

EYE CLINICS

• Conducted 8 Eye Clinics to date supplying over 3000 eye glasses.
• We had the privilege of seeing more than 1500 people pray to receive either salvation or make a rededication to Christ through this very effective way of sharing the Gospel to people one on one.
• Next Eye Clinic planned for June of 2012. God willing, we shall try our best to see if we can combine this with a special clinic where patients cataracts  can be removed through surgery.

• Since 1998 we distributed thousands, of Bibles in Africa.
• In 2010 we distributed over 5000 Bibles in Kenya and Sierra Leone of which 1500 are Picture Bibles for the little ones.
• At Eye Clinics and Open Air rallies Bibles are given to those receiving Christ as their personal Savior. 
• At Standing Stones Church in Tinley Park, IL we have bins in the parking lot collecting paper for recycling. All  proceeds are used for Bibles in Africa.
• We received a special donation of 342 ESV Study Bibles which we distributed to our Seminary students in 2012.

• In September 2009 we officially open our first center for 26 widows in Kenya and has since completed it to can host up to 35 widows.
• The home currently have 16 widows and in 2011 we will add more. 
• We launched a BEADING PROJECT with our widows during 2010 and God willing we hope to sell these bracelets and necklaces in the USA to raise support for the widows and orphans in Africa. We need shops that would be willing to place a stand on their counters to help as selling these bead products. The widows get paid for each product manufactured giving them some means of income.
•  We taught them how to crochet, knit and paint and will continue to develop them spiritually and in various skills.
• We shipped soil into the yard and they started a garden and also a small chicken house where they keep some chickens.
• We started a church in the Widow Center for them which also include peoples of the surrounding area.
• In September 2011 we will start the building of a Widow Care Center in Sierra Leone.

• Baseball Little League in Kenya is on target and after taking 5 trips, with volunteers, to train local coaches, umpires and the more than 3000 kids, we had 4 mini tournaments which turned out a roaring success after only 15 months of exposure to the game.  This caused great excitement and rivalry is already at the order of the day on whose school team is going to be the best. SEE OUR BASEBALL PAGE FOR PICTURES.
• Main focus is to reach these kids, their families, and even the greater community with the love and message of Christ.
• Container arrive in July 2010, with baseball equipment and uniforms. Thank you to every one that have donated, received, packed or help loading the container.
• We hope in 2012 to start of our first league season. The challenge will be to find 8 companies who would be willing to sponsor a school (four teams per school) for the 2012 season at  a cost of $3000 per school per year.
• The major challenge to can start the league is finding $65000 to buy and develop the approximately 10 acres of  land on offer for a place to can play. You should be able to fit between 5 and 7 diamond fields. Currently only two of the 8 schools  have some inadequate space where games can be played.