God is Good! All the time, God is Good! So much has happened since our previous newsletter, that I simply had to send you this update!
Thanks to your prayers, I’m pleased to announce that Brook of Hope Home is now a fully registered Canadian charity with Canada Revenue Agency! While applying for this, we were told that it typically takes a year to achieve this, well in April 2024, only six short months since incorporation and only 4 months since applying, we got our CRA approval! Those of you who have already donated, will have gotten an official donation receipt. More exciting news about giving, later!
Excited to be able to attend school!
Busy with their schoolwork
At Brook of Hope Home, we know that education is a key component in breaking the poverty mindset. This is why so much of our efforts go to ensuring our kids not only attend school but are successful at school. We’re thrilled that six of the original eight street boys are still regularly attending classes at school.
Here are the girls lined up to get into the school building. In Zambia, a typical public-school classroom will have 120 students and one teacher! This is one reason we provide after-school tutoring.
Since some of our original group of street boys have moved out of the area, ten new street boys have been invited to participate in our program. Currently, they are being ministered and fed. Several of them have also indicated interest in returning to school in September.
Learning is best done when a child is fed. Here we have basic food staples being provided
The promise of a well-balanced meal is often the motivator to bring the street boys in off the streets
All 15 boys and girls from the Katondo slum area are now attending classes; however even more impressive, all our street boys and slum area children are getting special tutoring twice a week. We believe, this is critically important for their educational success by bringing the students up to their grade level and beyond.
A meal is provided, even if all we have to offer the children are bread rolls, juice and some popcorn.
Feeding their souls as well as their minds and stomachs is essential to what we do! Church attendance is a must!
Here is Peter leading a group in prayer and worship as he preaches to our kids
To make this happen, we’ve hired two qualified teachers to tutor the children each Thursday, locally in Mukukulu. On Saturdays, more tutoring is provided by Peter and yet another teacher at the BHZ facility, and when funds are sufficient, the children are treated with a meal.
We are very excited that we now have additional qualified teachers to help with the tutoring programs!
For security purposes, Brook of Hope Zambia had three guard dogs living on the property.
Unfortunately, Duchess (shown here) became sick, and sadly the vet could not help her.
She will be greatly missed.
Thanks to Peter’s connection with Operation Mobilization (OM), our Brook of Hope Zambia charity was thrilled this month to host several American visitors who were thoroughly impressed with the good works happening. Later this year, another OM-BHH collaboration is being planned. We’ll bring dentists and hygienist to Kabwe to give free dental care and education to our BHZ children and to OM’s Bethseda school for special needs children.
Shown here, one of our American visitors instructing at our center
Money is needed to build these dental beds
We’re also happy to announce that our website now facilitates regular monthly giving to Brook of Hope Home with a credit card.
While we still accept donations through e-transfers to brookofhopehome@gmail.com , the Canada Helps link makes monthly giving easy with immediate tax receipts.
Can we count on your continued prayer and financial support to help us transform the lives of these precious children towards a brighter future?
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Recently, Zambia has been under drought conditions which has had a severe impact on electricity generation. This means major loadshedding and lengthy power outages. Not only is operating lights, appliances, and phone charging reduced, but city water supply is drastically curtailed. This has meant our BHZ vegetable gardens have suffered significantly, and sadly our Zambian team are unable to provide heating needed to keep our baby chicks alive at night.
June’s weather is "African cold" and the mortality rate of the new chicks is much higher than normal due to lack of heat lamps being able to run through the day and night. While charcoal braziers are helping, they can only be used with supervision due to fire and carbon monoxide issues.
Please pray that the electrical power outages will come to an end.
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In loving service,
