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Almost all the orphanages we sustain suffer from over-crowding. Today we visited one such home that had 68 children. When I only saw 15 beds I asked how they managed. “We place 4 children in every bed and the rest sleep on the floor” That may seem harsh but the reality is that the alternative [ . . . ]

Walking through a slum named Kayoli we were going through a garbage dump and found an infant who had been discarded. As we picked him up it was apparent that he was in very poor shape. His face was shrivelled and his tiny hands were wrinkled. We quickly took him to the hospital to find [ . . . ]

On my first trip to Uganda, as I had never been there and didn’t know anybody in the country, I thought I would save time in locating the needy children by visiting the relief organizations in the country who were presently working with children. Surely they would know the worst areas of need. I found [ . . . ]

We had informed the villagers of Amaya, deep in the interior of Ethiopia, that we would visit their village. We were held up elsewhere throughout the day and determined that we might not have the time to visit them .  Despite the delay we felt impressed that we should still seek out the village. As [ . . . ]

Aids is a terrible plague which affects so many more than the participants. We have children under our care that are orphans due to the fact that both of the parents have succumbed to the infection. We have children who are born with the affliction having received it through a deceased parent.  In Ethiopia we [ . . . ]

On our first trip to Kenya, we arrived in the city of Nairobi. We were being toured around the city by the former Foreign Minister. I asked to go and visit Kibera which is the largest slum in east Africa with over 1,300,000 people living there. We were told that it was far too dangerous [ . . . ]