Hi Pastor Scott!
Greetings my friend. Hope you are experiencing G and family.od's power in your ministry
We wanted to show God's love to people in this region by way of providing relief food. As you might be aware, we have had drought and famine here for quite sometime and many livestock have died.Many locals who were rich are suddenly poor because they have lost their cattles, carmels, donkeys, goats. We wrote a proposal and God worked a miracle that an agency has accepted our propossal--this means that in the next two days or so, we will have >1500 bags of maize (90kgs each), >1500 bags of rice (50 kgs each), >1500 bags of beans (90 kgs each), and 1600 litres of cooking oil. Jaco (missionary we work with) and I met with government leaders to plan for the distribution.
Out target groups are the women and the children who are extremely poor.
We always discourage relief food because it is not a long term solution--but now we have to intervene because the situation is disperate
As a long term solution, the agency has approved our proposal of 30 small water pumps for irrigation (they call them money maker pumps). We will liase with agricultural officers here to make sure that the people are actively involved in farming. I will offer my self as a plant pathologist to help with disease and pest control. Pray for the exercise of distribution asking the lord that this foodstuffs and pumps will reach only those that are in great need. Blessings
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