Willie Brown Elementary School Book Collection for Children of Zimbabwe
Walnut Ridge Baptist Church
Book Signing
Packing Books and Suppplies
For Children in Zimbabwee
Loading 2nd Container
Arrived in Zimbabwe
February 1010
Tariro Chabata
Encouraging girls
to Invest in Others
Loading up boxes
in Mansfield Texas
for shipment
to Zimbabwe
in February 2010
Sharing with an orphan how not to compromise
her purity
Winters are cold in Zimbabwe where many children live in ragged clothing andcould use
a pair of shoes.
250 pair were given to
the orphans at Chiguvare
School in Sanyati.
"When God"s children
are in need, you be the one to help them out"
~~~Romans 12:13
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Projects
July/August, 2010
MEDICAL MISSION TRIP !!!
Amazingly, a 40 foot container of medical supplies and the shipping cost has been donated to Beacon of Hope and Joy and Shepherd’s Ministries International. They are sending Ti Chabata, President of BOHJ, USA, to accompany a medical team sent by Shepherd’s Ministries International. They will do health screenings for the children sponsored by BOHJ and Shepherd’s Ministries International.
Meeting the health needs of the children was one of the important objectives of BOHJ. This is our first opportunity to do that. God has supplied in a big way.
Your donations really help. Donate now.
June, 2010
RECYCLE SCHOOL SUPPLIES !!!
Students and faculty from Mansfield Texas area schools and Riddell Elementary in Frisco are collecting their gently used school supplies to be sent to African students. Pencils, pens, notebook paper, crayons, rulers which might go in the wastebasket will be going to school children in Liberia and Zimbabwe who have rarely used a pencil or paper in their whole school experience.
Willie Brown, Pantego Christian, Kenneth Davis Elementary schools, Aso Low Intermediate, and Legacy High students and faculty are proudly choosing to share their last year’s paper and pencils, with students who have none of their own.
This is a unique program that we hope will spread in its outreach in the coming year. Want to help with this project by promoting it in your school next year? Let us know at www.beaconofhopeandjoy.org. Click here for contact information.
May, 2010
UNPACKING THE 2nd CONTAINER of books , school supplies, and clothing.
The container arrived and they are busy unpacking and organizing the boxes of books, school supplies and clothing at the BOHJ office for delivery to the Chiguvare and Sesami Primary Schools.
Stationery is being sold from original photographs of flowers by Ginny Hatt.
January, 2010
BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS !!!
Over 100 boxes of books were taken to the container. The children's books are for two new school libraries --- one at the Chiguvare Primary School in Sanyati and one at the Sesami Primary School in Gokwe. Also, books and study materials for the Christian Resource Library in downtown Harare. Many of the children have never held their own book. This library is established in conjunction with Shepherd's Ministries International.
Book donations were organized by the PTA of Willie Brown Elementary school of Walnut Ridge Baptist Church, and First United Methodist Church of Mansfield. The junior/ senior high girls from Walnut Ridge Baptist Church held a signing party, writing messages of hope to the children.
School supplies for over 500 students were packed.
Neighborhood groups, from Dallas to Houston, and the Wesley Mission Center donated many bags of clothing and new underwear. Some children shared their toys for the children who have no one to buy toys for them.
The Seeker's Sunday School class donated money to purchase ten 50 pound bags of rice and five 25 pounds bags of beans. BOHJ in Zimbabwe will distribute them to needy families.
The 3rd container will leave as soon as the $15,000 is collected to pay the cost of sending it.
August 2009
The First Container has arrived !
See pictures of supplies being unloaded !!! Click here
The distribution of 135 boxes packed with school supplies ,clothing and shoes, food, medicine, and books has begun!
Check back soon for more details!
September 2009
Another container is being packed for Christmas.
School supplies for 500 students, clothes for each, school and Christian books and curriculum for newly established libraries are being packed now so it can be sent to Africa in October.
April 2009
Hope Arrives Soon! A Container of Supplies is Sent !
So quickly prayers were answered! In April 2009 BOHJ sent 135 boxes packed with school supplies (paper, pens, chalk, crayolas), 150 school bags, clothing, shoes, blankets, food, and medicine. Supplies and donations of money to purchase more supplies were collected in only 2 weeks.
The First United Methodist Church of Mansfield Texas donated Christian education and grief materials, as well as clothing from the Wesley Mission Center. The Seeker's Sunday school class members donated funds to purchase school supplies and food. Donations of clothing, books, and loads of school supplies were given by employees from the Hudson Advisors Company of Dallas, TX. Shepherds International Ministries offered room for the boxes on their container going to Zimbabwe.
Thanks go to the volunteers who helped pack the 135 boxes and to those who transported the supplies to the docking location.
We can’t imagine how Big the Gratitude Celebration will be as the container of supplies are distributed to the orphaned children and their grandmothers.
March 2009
Celebration at Sanyati in Appreciation for All That Has Been Given.
March 3rd,2009 Joyce Muchechetere and the board of BOHJ traveled by truck to Sanayti to the Chiguvare elementary school.
All of the orphans came to school on Saturday with their grandmas, school teachers, parent board members from the school, education officers, and people from the surrounding area to show their appreciation for the help given to them.
They had a whole day event. The kids did skits, sang, and danced. A lunch from the little they have was shared.
The kids were gaven shoes and blankets in preparation for winter. The kids’ basic needs are so great: clothing, blankets, food, immunizations, school supplies ( pencils, pens, notebooks, reading books, etc.). YOUR DONATIONS MADE THIS POSSIBLE !!
Our Accomplishments in the past two years:
• The second shared container of books, school supplies, and clothing arrived.
• Distribution is beginning soon for two primary school libraries where there were only a handful of books before.
• Books have arrived to begin setting up a Christian Resource Library in downtown Harare.
• A 40 foot medical container will arrive in August. A medical team will be giving the first health screenings to the sponsored children,
• A 3rd container of books, school supplies, and clothing is being collected for shipping the first of the year.
• 33 urban students have received tuition and uniforms
• 8 students completed college and trade school degrees
• 300 elementary students receive tuition levies at Chiguvare elementary in Sanyati
• 175 elementary students receive tuition levies at Gokwe elementary
• 135 boxes containing various school supplies, 150 school bags, clothing, shoes, blankets, food, medicine, and teaching materials were shipped
• Two new programs : Mailbox Club International for Bible studies and True Love Waits International for teaching abstinence commitment are beginning. For more information, go here.
• Grief materials and workshops are expanding to over 300 young people
• Sewing machines and material for community self-help projects in the Sanyati area are being utilized
• 250 pairs of shoes were delivered to students who have no shoes in Sanyati
• 200 Samaritan purse Christmas boxes were delivered to children
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