our h.o.p.e. school children

  • SHORTY & THUBA PRAYER NEEDS
  • Shorty and Thuba were sponsered to attend public school in jan 2008 and we received news this week they have dropped out of school and are now back living on the streets.THUBA ia 15 yrs  bright intelligent boy and SHORTY is  13yrs and has great potential to learn. they both have had little or no formal education and they need Christian mentors to build them up in prayer and encourage them to return to school.
  • there continues to be no news on these boys ,please continue to pray for them: updated 12/25/08
  • for the children of Hope school as they are on their long summer break , this is the time the children are at greater risk from abuse and neglect as they leave the city and return to rural homesteads

     

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h.o.p.e. school

ian and jenny stephens

As a Christian care point in the hilltop area of Mbabane (Swaziland’s capital), the area has a high crime rate, drug problem, alcoholism, incest and irresponsibility among the adult population. The children wander the streets dirty and hungary.

The school serves as a safe place, providing basic needs of education food and life skills and through faith offer hope for the future.

Swaziland does not have a free public school system and it is expensive to send a child to school.

Vision for the future

  • Start agriculture programs to grow crops and raise chickens and rabbits so the care point will become self sufficient in food needs, training the children to grow the crops and marketing any surplus food, to provide funds for the school. Approx 45 children are fed during the week and 80 at the weekends.

  • School sponsorship program for the children, hope school serves as a transition point between the streets and formal school and through god we want to see every child have the opportunity to attend formal school ,and reach their full potential.

  • To  train people in the local community to provide basic first aid needs for the children and each child receive a physical yearly to address long term needs of malnutrition, etc.