Sunday, October 15, 2006

Amy from Mozambique

Every day; every minute we feel the energy of your prayers. Our new Creativity Center for the Support of Orphans is nearly open - it will be open this coming week for us to start teaching sewing, painting, embroidery and other craft to the orphans of the AIDS pandemic here in Chimoio. Most important, we are sewing anatomical dolls to bring better HIV/AIDS awareness and are having PHENOMENAL success with our AIDS training. Thank you God and thank you everyone at CFC.

This is not our first effort, but our third in the past two years. We started with $80 and a one-way ticket to the United States back in May of 2005. I had come here with an aid agency and saw they were not in the service of orphans. I also saw nobody seemed to be committed to survival training for children and those who are supporting children.

Children were dying from crazy things like running out in front of a car or playing too close to the fire. Things we all knew by the time we were 10 years old, not to do. Yet, there is no basic safety training here. I thought we could open an NGO completely committed to teaching children how to stay alive. To reach an age where they could change the world - if only because we kept them alive until adulthood with basic training that the rest of us received for free and took for granted.

So, here we are now, we have a preschool serving 26 children, another orphan center providing vocational skills training to 150 orphans and now we are opening our latest center for teaching orphans and activists which will serve more than 3000 orphans per year.

Thank you - each and every one of you for your prayers, for your support, for your belief and for being willing to take a chance on me and that I could bring forth what God asked me to do in October of 2003; to leave my life and my corporate job "to help the children of darkness"

Thank you from all of us here in Mozambique - in Chimoio, in Macate, and in Mudzingadze where we are making small changes one prayer, one step, one moment at a time.

Check out the latest photos here.

Amy Gillespie
Founder of AOSCI - AIDS Orphans Skills Centers, Inc.
Chimoio, Mozambique

posted by emccabemusic @ 9:04 PM