The Program’s impact on the children we are able to help is quite significant for the basic reason that they are forgotten children trying to survive. In some ways we are continuing the role and responsibility of their deceased parents. We are picking up their lives and getting them moving again.
To a certain degree the impact is even greater because many of these children were impoverished even when their parents were alive. Now they live in a safe environment, have three warm, nutritious meals a day, medical help, spiritual opportunities and access to an education. All of these factors plus the love of other children and guidance of an adult housemother mean that the positive impact on their current and future lives is enormous.
The positive impact on the children extends beyond the children themselves. They become healthy, contributing adults freeing the government from the necessity of caring for them as an adult. By also becoming qualified to enter the workplace and contribute to society these children will be helping to build that society and their country. The future of all countries is their youth and the countries in Africa are no different. The children in this “Africa Orphan Program” are those youth who will be part of building tomorrow’s Africa.
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