Madawaska Volleyball & All-Sport Camp

2009-10-18
Madawaska Coaches' Care 2009

During Madawaska Volleyball Camp this year, the coaches continued their awesome support for our two sponsored children at the Village of Hope in Zimbabwe. The coaches contributed close to $1500.00 to support these children. This means that Michelle Kahungwa in grade 6 and Brighton Muchenga in grade 4 will have continuing sponsorship as well as their families receiving much needed food and medical care. Thank you coaches!

As I led a Mission team in May, 2009 to the Village of Hope, I had the great privilege of visiting Michelle and Brighton and their families, presenting them with gift bags and quilts sewn by ladies in Canada. I was able to visit them in their Farm plot "homes". Let me describe their homes for you! Michelle and Brighton's families live in two small rooms with no bathroom, no kitchen and only a few sticks of furniture. There are no beds as they sleep on floor mats with very little bedding. They have no source of heat so they must somehow cope with the cold night temperatures (40F) that occur during a Zimbabwean winter. Michelles mother has AIDS and is in drastic need of medical care and anti-retroviral drugs. I am planning to use some of the funds generated by the Madawaska Coaches Care campaign to get her the needed medical care.