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Orphan Child in Guatemala


The ABCs of Health

By Julie Cramer

Every day 11-year-old Kevin, weighing only 50 pounds, digs through a trash dump in Nueva Suyapa, one of Honduras’ most dangerous and impoverished communities, looking for food. His mother, two brothers, and sister rely on him to salvage something they can eat.

Very often, the food Kevin does find lacks the vital nutrition he and his siblings need to grow up healthy and strong. To Kevin, and the others like him all over the world, malnutrition can be life-threatening. Without access to proper nutrition, these children become susceptible to a host of health problems such as stunting and blindness, and due to a weakened immune system, infectious diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that cause the deaths of about 1 million children every year.

In June Orphan Outreach and WaYfm—a broadcast ministry out of Michigan—took action against malnutrition. Thanks to Aidmatrix, a national disaster relief organization, and a generous donation from Vitamin Angels, a nonprofit organization in Santa Barbara, California,WaYfm’s medical team distributed more than 2,500 bottles of mulit-vitamins in Nueva Suyapa and the surrounding communities. More than 1,700 children received a year’s supply of supplements.

“Our solutions help others to get the right aid to the right people. We’re proud to partner with Vitamin Angels and Orphan Outreach in their mission of supplying medical relief to those in need,” Governor Scott McCallum of the Aidmatrix Foundation said.

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Christian recording artist
Carmen D’Arcy travels
with Orphan Outreach
to Guatemala

Christian recording artist Carmen D’Arcy traveled on the Midday Connection mother/daughter trip as a worship leader for the team and the children they ministered to throughout the week. D'Arcy, a talented singer/songwriter, leads worship and directs the choir at the 6,000-member Grace Community Church near Indianapolis.

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A Place to Call Home

Each year the girls who live in Elwyn Parekh Home in Anand seem to say about their month-long vacation: “I do not want to go home for the holiday. I want to stay behind with Uncle and Aunty.” These 16 girls, ranging in age from 6 to 16 years, have been brought to the home primarily because of the extreme poverty conditions of their families.

In almost all the cases, the parents are daily wage workers who seek to work in farms and eke out a meager existence. For them it is a task to manage to put food on the table. Beyond this they cannot afford to even think about anything else. So in a culture and society that already has a negative bias to female children, there is no hope for the girls in such families to expect anything in life. It is this need that caused Samson and Rina Parekh to begin the Jeevan Anand Trust, which seeks to provide a home and future for girls who otherwise had none.

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Making A Difference

The best playground in Honduras and a lot more.

Thirty WaYfm listeners and staff traveled to Honduras in June and returned utterly changed by what God allowed them to be a part of in Tegucigalpa. The delivery and installation of a playground at a school in the slum of Nueva Suyapa was a huge undertaking for a 10 day mission trip but it was also just part of the blessing the team brought to the country.

In addition, a medical team saw more than 700 children and adults. Other parts of the team ministered in Christian day cares and schools teaching art classes, presenting puppet shows and sharing Christ’s joy through carnivals. The team passed out vitamins, bibles, craft supplies, backpacks and much needed clothes. Over 1,000 children received their very own lamb provided by Family Christian bookstores. Trip members were moved by all their experiences, especially the visit to the  Tegucigalpa dump where they ministered to over 100 children that live and work off the trash in the dump.
 
View videos and read more about this trip at the station’s trip blog at http://way.fm/connect/missions.

Mission Possible Kids Change the World

Mission Possible Kids Change
the World by Helping Others

An Orphan Outreach team recently distributed bandana “buddies” that had been created by children from Prosper United Methodist church in Prosper, Texas as part of our partnership with Mission Possible Kids.

Mission Possible Kids (MPKids) is a ministry dedicated to providing kids the opportunity to change the world by helping others because they are “Special Agents doing God’s work.”

In 2008, MPKids chapters throughout the US are creating bandana buddies and collecting Mission Backpacks to be distributed by Orphan Outreach teams around the world.
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