Rebuild The Orphanage
WHAT HAPPENED:
Our Christ centered orphanage, school and farm in Miango, Plateau State, Nigeria has been destroyed by Sunni Muslim Fulani herdsmen. The children were evacuated from the more rural Miango area to Jos City less than 24 hours before the deadly attack by the Fulani herdsmen. Hundreds of homes in the area were destroyed and many Christians were murdered.
Every orphanage building was burned, everything was lost. The children’s clothing, bedding, Bibles and schoolbooks were burned. The children escaped with only the clothing they were wearing. The water tanks have bullet holes, the well pumps were destroyed. Cattle were run through the orphanage farm to destroy it as well.
These orphans were traumatized watching their parents being murdered in previous attacks by Sunni Muslim terrorists such as the Boko Haram and Fulani Herdsmen in other areas. Many have wounds from previous attacks. They have been traumatized again by the destruction of their orphanage home.
WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR:
A vacant former day school in Jos City was rented for one year to temporarily house the 160 orphans. New bed frames and mattresses were purchased. Bales of used clothing were purchased. Playground equipment was installed. A new minibus was purchased. Temporary classrooms with no electricity were built with scrap wood on the land adjacent to the rented building.
The temporary facility is too small, it is overcrowded and in poor condition.
WHAT IS NEEDED:
Two acres of land for an orphanage has been found in Jos, a major city with a population of 900,000. The land, with some structures in place, is located next to government buildings and is safe from attack.
The cost of the land is $161,000. Another $75,000 is needed for additional structures to be completed over the next year.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Help provide a new home and Christian school in a safe location for orphans traumatized by Islamic terrorism.
Will you pray for the children and help us provide them a safe Christ centered home?
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Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27 NIV