The Face behind the Fundraising Event

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Our family have been committed to supporting a vocational school in Niger, Africa for a last few years.  Part of this commitment meant praying for the staff and students in the school and raising funds.  But a bigger part has been teaching our family the value of developing relationships, of taking initiative to continue to learn and to continue to seek God for guidance as to how and where this 'support' ought to be.

This year we are learning about the Hot Lunch Program the school has.  Here is some of the information beyond just "oh, they need money to pay for hot lunches for the girls"

Here is some information and photos I got from our partner missionaries who are part of the staff at this school in Africa.  I'm adding her comment about the effects of the current Ebola Crisis in this excerpt as well:

Fortunately ebola has not reached the borders of Niger although there have been cases in neighbouring Nigeria. We continue to pray for His mercy and protection.

Thanks so much for thinking about raising money for our vocational school.

We are starting up the school again for another cycle of three years starting this October. Our immediate need is funds for the hot lunch program where we serve an iron/protein rich meal to the students every weekday. As you know, our girls come from impoverished homes where three square meals a day are hard to come by. This makes good health a challenge especially given the fact that the girls are between the ages of 12 and 16 and are in their prime growing stage of life. We would be blessed if this is something that you feel led to consider funding.

We are still raising $7,000 for the hot lunch program and any amount donated would be appreciated.

The hot lunches are a protein rich sauce over a starch. Examples are: 
1) beef and vegetable sauce over rice 
2) tomato sardine sauce over pasta 
3) ground beef and veggie sauce on a baguette.







This is why we are fundraising

This is why we partner

And this is what "Hot Lunch" means in their context

I pray that we continue to engage in being an ACTIVE partner in whatever we engage to participate.

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