At least once a year a group of Living Compassion staff travels to Africa

At least once a year a group of Living Compassion staff travels to Africa to take the next steps in the Africa Vulnerable Children Project. It is always a life-changing experience.

Experiencing the African culture has transformed us. Even in the face of extremely difficult circumstances, the people we encounter have a joy and enthusiasm for life that is truly inspiring. 

On these trips we celebrate the things that have been accomplished since our previous trip and hold meetings to put the next phase of the projects in place.

May 2010

Another action-packed trip: working with the sewing team to see how to make use of industrial sewing machines, working on malaria prevention, investigating bringing Internet access to the property, and working on our communication project. The sewing team took on a baby blanket project. We sat down with the leadership team to take stock of the project and where we want it to go in the future.

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January 2010

As usual, there was a big batch of projects we wanted to look at this trip: prep work for bringing a strong medical team to Kantolomba, a new project for the sewing cooperative, taking stock of the building projects, looking at the status of girls and women in the community, and much more.

 
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November/December 2009

This was another short and action-packed trip. We set out to look at how to double the number of children in the program and how to set up a hammermill on the property to grind corn. The initial phase of construction for the hammermill building was begun. Plus, there were plenty of odds and ends to attend to.

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