RECOVERY IN EAST AFRICA
In our special issue last weekend, we sent photos of the flooding in East Africa. Our friend Simon in Tanzania, who has built "Vision Complex" – an orphanage/school center for 50 AIDS orphans, sent us this photo of their former main road to their orphanage/school. 
It's now a pond for ducks and the only access is an even poorer road full of ruts. They lost their rice crop and the food for the orphans so we sent some money for maize to feed the orphans, but with the loss of their rice crop and seed, they lost $2,000 of income so they need $200 to buy new seed so they can re-plant. Our small non-profit, Agape Restoration Society Inc., has sent money for food, but we have limited income. Can you help us with this rice seed?
Please go to our giving page if you can help. The need is great, and we receive requests almost every day from others for assistance due to the flooding and for caring for AIDS orphans in East Africa. It's more than we can handle alone!
Another person in our 7 a.m. daily "Morning Prayers and Readings" is Maureen, who became an AIDS orphan in childhood: both of her parents died from AIDS. So her grandma, a widow herself, raised her. Maureen grew up, got married, had a baby girl, and then her grandma became disabled, so Maureen took her into their home. But her husband did not like this situation, so he abandoned the family.
This left Maureen to care for grandma and little Kayla, as well as running a stall in the market to support them. Then, after losing her one-room house in a slum fire 2 years ago and rebuilding, now she has lost her new house and stall in the slum market to the flood: see "KENYA FLOODS DEATH TOLL TOPS 200 AS CYCLONE APPROACHES" and KENYA FLOODS: NAIROBI HOMES DEMOLISHED AS CYCLONE HIDAYA APPROACHES."
They were able to sleep in her daughter's school for a few nights, but the schools have to reopen on Monday. So we helped her get some new blankets, plastic dishes and buckets, and rent for a one-room apartment. But now that she's lost her business too, she needs ongoing support for her family until she can get going again. Can you help Maureen, Kayla, and Grandma? Please go to our giving page if you can help.
A Personal Note: Please forgive me for being a day late with this issue: I went to the emergency room last Tuesday and stayed in the hospital until Friday to have an ablation on my heart. Now I'm feeling normal, not dizzy or winded like the past several weeks: praise the Lord!
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