It was a cold dark night when the children of Fountain of Life were awakened to the sounds of heavy equipment. Banging on the door was a developer who had claim to the land and wanted to evict the children’s home. He chose the middle of the night to start his work to avoid the certain refusal of authorization by government officials. The children had only minutes to quickly flee from the buildings before the bulldozers came in and flattened the buildings and everything that was inside. Orphans in Africa have no voice and are often disregarded, ignored and taken advantage in such ways.

Now placed in the street in the middle of the night the mother frantically started looking for places for all the children to sleep .  The next morning they returned to see their home in ruin, mulched up into a pile of debris. Well wishers rallied around them and found a plot of land where they could start over. They quickly started building shelters out of tin and now continue caring for the 50 children under their care. We have been helping them for over a year now. Florence is a wonderful mother and caregiver.