In our work, sometimes it’s difficult to find the balance between meeting spiritual need and meeting physical needs.  On the one hand, whatever we might do to make this life better for someone seems pointless if they end up spending eternity apart from God.  On the other hand, it also seems pointless to merely talk [...]

Every now and again we get a package from the USA for the children here. Sometimes school supplies, sometimes food, sometimes toothbrushes. We never know what might come next, but it is always such a blessing to the kids. Last week we got a box of Crocs. For kids who have walked around barefoot for [...]

Here is an informative excerpt from the article linked above: “One of the most destructive of the misconceptions that had thus far shaped policy on HIV/AIDS prevention and control was that only orphaned children were affected by the pandemic. This had fed the “powerful myth” that the majority of children who had lost a parent [...]

Click here for an interesting article about orphans of AIDS here in South Africa. It’s full of stuff we see every day. Thanks to Ben and Stacie Post for the link (and the encouragement!).

I know many of you who follow our blog have heard about us having monkeys in our house on various occasions. Monkeys are a pretty common sight in and around Durban. This boy “treed” one with his dogs, then killed it with a slingshot. He was on his way to cook and eat it. Monkey [...]

It has been amazing to see the diversity of people who have been touched by the plight of the orphans and vulnerable children who have been affected by the AIDS epidemic here in South Africa. Young Nikolas and Kate of Ontario, Canada put on an iced tea stand to raise money to help us reach [...]

Today I wanted to do a home visit with a boy on one of our soccer teams – his name is Khayaliso. The area where he lives is out in “the bush”, so I picked him up after school, along with a few other children whose home situations I wanted to check in with. As [...]

“South Africa has the highest number of HIV positive people infected with tuberculosis, representing one third of people globally who are co-infected with the diseases,” read the April 1 edition of The Mercury, Durban’s largest newspaper. While half of all South Africans are exposed to TB at some point in their lives, the vast majority [...]

Written on this 3rd grade blackboard at one of the schools we work at every week is a poem about children with HIV/AIDS. Recited by the children every day, it talks about how they should not tease or discriminate against children who are HIV+. This is a big issue at the school, where there are [...]

BBC article: Watching Mum Die of AIDS The article linked above, from the BBC, talks about a young girl whose mother died of AIDS. It is a situation repeated over and over again among the children we are working with here in Durban. Please pray that God would intervene and protect them.