Let's take a virtual mind-tour today. As you read this, think of what it would be like to be in the shoes of the poor at our port of call.
Today we will be going to Liberia on the Western shores of Africa. As you now it was at the epicenter of the 2014 Ebola outbreak. It was also the location of two brutal civil wars in the decades before that.
It is a country where we can make a big difference in people’s lives for not too large of investment.
our virtual tour will be via:
Which brings us to this AM. Bishop Nelson who we have worked with since the Ebola Crisis (and whom I learned of before the crisis via Pete at CYC) emailed the following this AM:
"As we reach the Christmas season in Liberia, the Christian Youth Corps - Africa celebrate the yearly youth camp right after the Christmas with street kids from market places, street kids from street corner and get-to the place gang.
Last Year 2014 the youth camp was celebrated with 118 Ebola victim orphans in Dolo Town, Maigibi County closed to the Robert International airport.
I teach finance, so let’s do the math.
158 children at camp. (98 from Orphanage + 10 Street Children + 50 from local churches)
4 days of camp
632 person camp days.
That is 54 cents per child per day.
No, it will not solve all the world’s problems. But it will give these children some structure, some learning, some food, and some hope. That seems like a good investment to me. Who agrees? Who is in?
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