About Beacon of Hope
- A Tsunami every day
- A tidal wave strikes the continent of Africa every month, killing hundreds of
thousands of people. It's a tidal wave of disease- a disease known as HIV/AIDS-
and 7,000 Africans die of it every single day. Unlike the Asian tsunami, THIS
tidal wave is preventable. You and I, as God's children, can do something about it.
We can offer hope in a tangible way - by supporting a budding ministry near Nairobi,
Kenya called Beacon of Hope.
100% of the money raised by selling the FOCUS on AFRICA Cookbook will
be given to partner programs in Africa, including Beacon of Hope
- Beacon of Hope
- In 2001, one woman -Jane Wathome, captured God's vision to help the suffering
women and children affected by the plight of HIV/AIDS, in the Kware Slums.
Beacon of Hope's goal is to see these people lifted from their desperate levels of
poverty and safeguarded from the potential destruction of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Besides offering food, medical help and counselling, Beacon of Hope seeks to
empower these families to meet their own physical, emotional and economic needs.
Economic improvement is integral to the task of enabling women to become free of
dangerous and demeaning lifestyles.
Looms in small rented warehouse provide the key to BOH first economic success.
Women work tenaciously while their children attend an educational daycare. Marketing
the rugs and women's summer wraps have now made it possible for a down payment on an
8-acre plot of land with a house and useable outbuildings. The people who work and
live in this slum, dream of having their own medical clinic, more literacy and
vocational training (including a catering school with a restaurant), better
education for the children, as well as a Youth Resource Centre.
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