Raising Up the Underprivileged

Our little patch of land in Malawi has become a full-blown educational facility! The two acres we bought from the chief of the village over a handshake deal a few years ago is now entirely surrounded by a masonry wall, which is saying something for a place where individual bricks are handmade from the clay in the ground. We also have four buildings, solar lights, and running water, including first-world flushing toilets! The ministry of education has visited our property and loves what we’re doing. Having the favor of tribal and local government means we are not only protected, but we also hope to be accredited in the near future.

Property development is exciting but not the point of our mission. The kids are. We have 125 children who come every day to the facility. There they get a hot breakfast, then forty of them stay for school while the rest (those who are too old for our classes) go on to public school. So far we offer preschool, Kindergarten, and first grade. We hope to add one higher grade level each year, as money and staffing allow. Now the kids only stay until about lunchtime then go home, where many of them won’t eat again until they join us the following morning. That alone makes our program not just important but life saving. Snoden and his wife Susan live in a house on the property with their three children, where they fill most of the jobs needed to run the entire school and feeding program.

We’re more than happy to report that 125 children are eating a nutritious meal every day and forty of them are being educated in a small classroom environment where they receive love and attention. We buy them clothes and take them to the clinic for medical care, and we offer relief for their families in cases of emergency. This is a considerable improvement for these kids, but we have aspirations to make their lives even better and to offer the same to others. In short, we don’t plan to stop expanding until every child in the village has access to excellent nutrition, education, and medical care. The end game is not just to feed kids but to raise them up to become godly, independent adults who can take care of themselves and others. 

This is no small goal, but because we believe it’s God’s desire, we’re dedicating ourselves to its full-time pursuit. We’re developing a comprehensive twenty-year plan that we hope to share along the way with you. We already have status as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in Malawi, and we recently applied to the United States government for official non-profit status here. We’ll be sharing our progress with you along the way and want to include you in it so you can celebrate the victories as they come. We trust there is nothing more important that you’ll ever be a part of. It’s amazing to consider that we’re only five years into this journey and so very much has happened to change the world for the better. Thank you for joining us in raising up some of God’s most precious and most underprivileged children.