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BACKGROUND Zambia - date:3/2/2001), leaving thousands of orphans without shelter, food and with their future and dreams shattered. Zambia has many orphans and it's capital city has many street children. For the above reason, we were moved with COMPASSION to help the needy children with an eternal perspective (where shall they spend their eternity without Jesus Christ? All human beings whether rich or poor have a need and that is SALVATION and for life here on earth (providing Life Skills).
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The HIV/AIDS epidemic has become a very serious health and
development problem in the whole world. HIV/AIDS has claimed
more lives than the first and the second World Wars, especially
in sub Sahara, Africa. The joint (UNAIDS) estimated the number
of HIV infections world wide at about 33.4 million by the end of
1998 of which 22.5 million were found in sub Sahara Africa
including Zambia. 13.9 million people have already died from the
disease. 590,000 infants now become infected each year and 90%
of these are the African children. 8.2 million children have
lost either one or both parents to HIV/AIDS (weekly Post
Newspaper,
We have seen children stripped off their future,
wounded by rejection, diseases, hunger, without any shelter,
cold in the night, sleeping in the trenches, in the drainage,
feeding from the trash canes and where they throw the garbage,
that is where the children go and pick up the trash, boil it and
survive on it. Our organization’s name come from Luke 10:25-37 -
Stripped, Wounded and left Half-Dead. We started "Samaritan
Community Orphanage" on the 3rd December 1999 with 7 orphans. At
that time, we turned down 15 orphans because we did not have
enough resources. We believe that we cannot build the future for
the orphans, but you can build the orphans for future.