Spreadin' the Love: Loving Swaziland

Hope and a future

By partnering with Children's Cup, our community has the opportunity to directly impact the lives of CarePoint kids. I am returning to Swaziland in September and hope to establish the beginning of a long, life-transforming relationship between the active, open-hearted families of our community and the needy, vulnerable children of Swaziland. Children's Cup lifts kids up out of desperation and utter poverty and gives them love, safety, hope and a future. By opening our hearts and lives to these children, we can be a part of building the safe havens, feeding the hungry, caring for the sick, and raising children who are wholly prepared for a better future. A little bit of love and support from each of us goes a long way when we all join together to make a difference.

Children's Cup International

Children's Cup's purpose is to take humanitarian and spiritual aid into the hard places where war, natural disasters and disease epidemics have devastated societies.
Children's Cup has its Africa offices in Swaziland, a beautiful country that is being ravaged by the terrors of having 43% of its population HIV-positive. This contributes to a sick and dying middle generation, leaving vulnerable children to care for themselves with no adults to keep them safe and healthy.
By building a network of CarePoints in densely populated urban areas, as well as in peri-urban and rural areas, Children’s Cup cares for thousands of Swazi children every day, giving them food, education, medical attention and spiritual training. The most vulnerable children are placed in safe homes with loving adult care-givers.
Children’s Cup has found a long-range development strategy that involves the community heavily. It is proving to be very successful in sparking genuine change in lives by empowering and enabling people to have the desire, skills and opportunity to rise out of poverty.
A CarePoint can be looked at as a school, a medical clinic, a cafeteria, and a meeting place. No matter what program is going on at a CarePoint, each is most definitely a safe haven for hundreds of orphans and vulnerable children that are in such desperate need of hope.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Loving Swaziland

I am staying very busy and not having much opportunity to post (or sleep), but I wanted to say I am having a fantastic time with the kids here, and the cooks are LOVING their scarves. When I say "Make, I have a present for you," they smile and clasp their hands over their hearts. Then I let them choose the scarves they want, and they hold them close like a treasure. I have some pictures, but so far no luck posting them from here. When I get back I'll share all my photos and videos with you.
Today we bathed the children at the care point in wash tubs and massaged their clean skin with cocoa butter lotion. They just loved the adoring attention. What a beautiful day.
And, to top it all of, there were monkeys swinging from the trees when we got back to the property where we're staying this afternoon. Wow.

1 comment:

Unknown said...: Mindy - so exciting to hear what you are up to. I have such a great picture of you and your team caring for those kids and pampering them, just as Christ would do. What a blesing and a sweet memory for you. Praying for you there, and for your family here at home!

Buffy; September 11, 2008 at 6:07 PM