Aside from teaching Bible at the primary school and discipling
teenage girls in the rural area, I have been taking trips twice a month to the
poorest part of Swaziland.
A place called Nsoko. By far this is the most difficult thing I do, physically
and mentally. Physically the drive is long and it's very hot. Nsoko is a barren
place where the rain falls sparsely. There has been an official drought there
for at least the last 4 years. When I go there, I am there to take pictures and
update AIM's supporters on what's happening there with 8 care points, a community
center, a clinic, and how the Pastor is doing. Mentally it is hard because the
desperation is so great there and I want to help them all, but can only help a
few. Prayer is needed for people to rise up and serve here in a full time
capacity.

 

The people in Nsoko are very kind and warm. As I drive up to
the community center they greet me with huge grins and a few have even come to
recognize and trust me enough to hug me hello (something that is rare here). I
have driven to all of the care points at one time or another and have visited
multiple homesteads. The conditions are heartbreaking, people are wasting away,
and most don't have the strength to get up from where they are sitting. The
children run around half naked without adult supervision. The Center provides
meals 6 days a week for the children and a safe place to play. Recently a
playground was constructed on site for the children with room for 50 kids to
play safely at a time. A field has been cleared for soccer games and nets have
been put up for netball games.

Most of the children are too poor to go to school and so
they have hours and hours to waste in the day, many end up falling into
dangerous activities and groups. This Center provides a place for safe
activities and even the women can come and learn sewing.

 

I added these pictures so you can pray for the people of
Nsoko, to put a face on these beautiful people ho have all but been forgotten by
their own. As of right now we don't have any full time staff living in the
area.

 

 

Pictured here is Pastor Gift, his wife Philile and his three children Nothando, Nduduzo and Okuhle, 

He is a wonderful Swazi man who has a huge heart
for the people, he has moved his family down to this desolate area giving up
many comforts, just to be close to the people.

 

 

Just some of the beautiful children in Nsoko