In a matter of months, we may one acre land on a 10-year lease housing the Refugees!
We Need Your Help!
Pastor Jordan visiting the refugee for the first time and encouraging them.
In 2003, we got an SOS letter at Word of Faith Ministry facility in Miami. It was from Covenant Abdul from the Buduburam Refugee Camp in Ghana. He wrote on behalf of refugees from Sierra Leone who were displaced by war in their country but escaped to Ivory Coast and then to Ghana where they were finally resettled by the UNHCR.
The war left more than one million people dead, especially women and children with many more disabled in the eleven years of brutal killing.
As the mission director of the ministry, I scheduled an on-the-spot visit to the camp in Ghana. I discovered that the refugees lived in open field under the intense sun and rain, day and night. They later built a tent with tree stumps with the roof of women’s wrapper, tied to the tree as you can see in the photo. Pastor Abdul is to my left in the picture while I preached. This was taken in 2003.
Hunger, nakedness, malnutrition, kwashiorkor and other diseases, deaths characterized their lives in the camp, especially for the young, elderly and those vulnerable. The donation of relief materials of food items, clothes, books, toys, shoes, hygiene, etc, I took were grossly inadequate. I returned again and again with more materials and we became more involved, making them our mission project.
To further alleviate their plight, in 2005, we leased a one-acre of land close to the camp from the locals for equivalent of US$3,500 for 10 years. On it, we assisted to build a permanent block structure with zinc roof to replace the tent. It can accommodate over 200 people. We also rented rooms around for the elderly and those with families. I stayed in one of the rooms, a 3ft X 3ft room with Abdul, his wife, daughter and eleven others in the same room. It was a joy to identify with them, especially the children, many of whom were products of rape by guerrillas and rebel fighters and they did not know their father, only mothers who have lost their identity to war.
The lease of the one-acre land will expire in April 2015. Although, it was leased for US$3,500 in 2005 for ten years, we are to renew with US$7,000 only for five years. However, to buy the land permanently is US$10,000. We think it is better to buy the land out rightly and permanently.
The war left more than one million people dead, especially women and children with many more disabled in the eleven years of brutal killing.
As the mission director of the ministry, I scheduled an on-the-spot visit to the camp in Ghana. I discovered that the refugees lived in open field under the intense sun and rain, day and night. They later built a tent with tree stumps with the roof of women’s wrapper, tied to the tree as you can see in the photo. Pastor Abdul is to my left in the picture while I preached. This was taken in 2003.
Hunger, nakedness, malnutrition, kwashiorkor and other diseases, deaths characterized their lives in the camp, especially for the young, elderly and those vulnerable. The donation of relief materials of food items, clothes, books, toys, shoes, hygiene, etc, I took were grossly inadequate. I returned again and again with more materials and we became more involved, making them our mission project.
To further alleviate their plight, in 2005, we leased a one-acre of land close to the camp from the locals for equivalent of US$3,500 for 10 years. On it, we assisted to build a permanent block structure with zinc roof to replace the tent. It can accommodate over 200 people. We also rented rooms around for the elderly and those with families. I stayed in one of the rooms, a 3ft X 3ft room with Abdul, his wife, daughter and eleven others in the same room. It was a joy to identify with them, especially the children, many of whom were products of rape by guerrillas and rebel fighters and they did not know their father, only mothers who have lost their identity to war.
The lease of the one-acre land will expire in April 2015. Although, it was leased for US$3,500 in 2005 for ten years, we are to renew with US$7,000 only for five years. However, to buy the land permanently is US$10,000. We think it is better to buy the land out rightly and permanently.
I will be in Ghana with others December 18 - 27 for Christmas with Refugees (CwR) How I wish you could join us.
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"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." (Matt. 25:40) |
New Building under construction. Pastor Jordan and friends from MD.
Suggested Material DonationThe following materals can be donated for the Christmas with Refugee Project:
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