Tangible Help for Nsoko, Swaziland

I have had many people ask me for specific ways in which they can tangibly help in Nsoko, Swaziland, and many have sent money for clothes (see Lisa’s blog).

Here is a list of what we need urgently and what will help us start educating the children and producing our self-sustainability projects…

Most of Phase One is done – the Church is planted, (see video), the community center is built and paid for (we are feeding hundreds everyday, doing workshops on AIDS and teacher-training five days a week in the community center), the security fence is up, and the ground is graded.

Our immediate needs are:

• Drilling of bore hole and pump – $7500 ($5000 raised; need $2000 more)
• Electricity for whole village – $2500 (ready to be installed)
• Pastor Gift’s house – $12,000 (He will be managing on site)
• Transport to get food and medical – $375 per month (to reach all 7 care points)
• Clinic built and furnished – $19,125 (doctor has donated all med equip)
• Church building, open steel plan – $7000 We have already out grown the center!
• Sewerage $588
• For $350 a month we can provide a package of Maize, Maltabella, (porridge), Beans, Oil, Sugar, Salt and Soap for 120 kids!

  Think about that: for $350 a month, 120 of our “Children of the Dirt” can eat nutritious food once each day – this has not happened in this area for a long time!

The eight orphan homes where we will house six to eight double orphans (a double orphan is where the mom and dad are both deceased and the child has no other family at all) are ready to go up now as we have the construction teams waiting. A church or a business could sponsor a home for $22,589. We have the mothers ready to move in.

Then soon after, we have to start working on the market place in front of the village. The locals can sell all of their goods to help with the self-sustainability of the project. Then the vegetable gardens, the essential oil fields, and the fish ponds will need to be in place to produce income on a monthly basis. Each double orphan will be in charge of her own 10 meters of garden. They can sell it, buy more meters and become their own entrepreneur. We are helping orphans to build life skills and deinstitutionalizing them!

Remember, you can come and see all of this happening right before your eyes on our vision trip this June!

If you want to make an online donation, please click on “Give to the Nsoko Project” on the right under My Links, or click “Support Me!” and get the mailing address to send a check. Make sure and note what you are wanting to give to.