Photo Gallery - Christian Charities of Africa

Children at one of the churches we built.

Feeding the children porridge before they go home. Previously, they only had boiled roots and leaves to eat once a day. This porridge is much more nutritious and ensures they get more than one meal a day.

We bought a generator for the school so that they could have classes at night as well as daytime.

We bought 300 chicks and taught the people how to raise and sell the chickens for profit and to have food for the orphans.

We bought milk cows and taught the people how to raise and sell the livestock as well as how to supply the orphans with meat.

We provided a large bucket of corn for the Mashi tribe and for the senior citizens of each village. They will grind up the corn into flour. This is their ONLY source of food. Without it, they will starve.

We feed and tell the people of the Mashi tribe that God loves and will take care of them through Jesus.

We planted 2 acres of beans using a hoe. All this was done by hand.

We couldn't buy a basket ball rim or goal for a local boys orphanage so we had one made at a local machine shop. Previously, they used a round ball of string and a wicker basket nailed to a tree.

This is the first well we dug on our first trip to dig wells. Since we had no well drilling equipment, we dug it by hand which took over a month to finish. (continued on next photo)

As the well got deeper, it began to cave-in on the sides and was too dangerous to enter. The Lord told me to use culvert pipes like the ones used in the U.S. for drainage. (continued on next photo)

We had to dig it 30 ft deep to reach the water.

I asked the villagers about a place that sells culvert pipes and there was a place not far from the village that made them. This made the process so much safer and better. We learned a lot in the process and God gave us wisdom on how to get it done safely.

Africans, don't have pipes to deliver the water to their homes so they have to get their water from an open hole that's exposed to the elements and often shared with livestock and disease carrying wild animals.

The women in this village had to climb up a mountain and stay several hours to fill their buckets with water because the flow of the stream was so slow. This stream water is cleaner that most water holes but it is high in the mountain.

They have to carry it (up to 25 pounds) long distances to their homes.

This part of Africa only gets rain one month in the year so the water hole gets deeper, more difficult and dangerous to utilize during the long dry season.

In the cities of Moshi and Msituwatembo, we built a sewing center. We bought 15 sewing machines for both centers. We taught the young women how to sew. When they gradate we get them jobs sewing for local people.