Livestock for Orphaned Children in Congo

Her name is Nikki and she’s a 40 year old widow raising three biological children and four adopted children. By 19 years old, she’d had her three children and by 20, she was a widow! Matthew, Michael, Tashi, and Dezi came into her family when her brother and sister in law died, leaving the children in her care. With seven children to raise, Nikki was overjoyed to have been selected as an AFCA family. In 2016, the family received seeds, four sheep, a solar light, a water filter, and training.  When we visited this past week to do a check up on the animals and the children, the sheep were walking around, eating and looking healthy. A couple of them are clearly pregnant, which is only going to help the family do better, allowing them to sell some for much-needed funds and food. Nikki is so grateful for AFCA, because she knows that the children are able to get an education thanks to the sale of extra vegetables, corn, peanuts, and beans from the garden.

Everyone here at the American Foundation for Children with AIDS, and our partners in Africa, thank you for your continued support of this important project.  If you would like to learn even more about this project and others, please contact Tanya Weaver at tweaver@AFCAids.org. 

Norma sends appreciation to the American Foundation for Children with AIDS and all its donors for giving me the chance to be a beneficiary of this livestock project.  My family was living a difficult life because of the lack of money, not being able to send my children to school, no food and frequent diseases.  As soon as I entered the project, I received 4 sheep, tools, seeds and a water filter.  I started working according to the standards of the training I received from the project manager. Now my crops are sown and weeded.  I produce corn, peanuts and cowpea.

Because of this training and the vegetables from my garden, I am able give tithing to the church, we eat healthy, my children receive schooling and we receive medical care.  We have seeds for the next few seasons.  My income has allowed me to rent land that I continue to cultivate.  I also bought a bike which helps us in our business.  The water we drink from the filter has decreased our illnesses.  In any case, I say thank you to the AFCA because my family's life is gradually changing for the better.

Everyone here at the American Foundation for Children with AIDS, and our partners in Africa, thank you for your continued support of this important project.  If you would like to learn even more about this project and others, please contact Tanya Weaver at tweaver@AFCAids.org.