Dear Friends: We want to wish you a Merry Christmas 2013 and a Happy New Year 2014. Click below for a Christmas card from the children of Burundi. Enjoy their Kirundi, Suahili, French and English greetings… MERRY CHRISTMAS from all of us in Burundi!
Happy
Thanks to your support, we were able to help a young girl from Burundi to receive medical care for her legs. A few weeks ago, our team brought little Happy to Ngozi province in the north of Burundi to have a much needed operation. Several doctors came to Burundi from other countries to treat different […]
A Plan to Help the Burundi Widows
We have posted several times about the fire in the central market of Bujumbura, and how it has devastated the lives of the widows whom Touch the Nations supports. We’re excited to report from Suzanne in Burundi that a plan has been formed to help get the widows back on their feet: I came home […]
Burundi Fire Aftermath – We Need Your Help
We posted last week about a huge fire in the central market in Bujumbura which has devastated the country. Many of the widows we support had small businesses which were destroyed in the fire. In many cases, these women have bank loans that they cannot repay because their businesses burned, and now they have no way […]
Huge Fire in Burundi’s Largest Market has Devastating Results
During the early morning hours of Sunday, January 27, the central market in Burundi’s capital burned to the ground. The market was the epicenter of the nation’s economy, and it will take time to recover. Many of the widows who are supported through the ministry of Touch the Nations lost everything. From Suzanne in Burundi: […]
It was like I got another strategy to save the children from the street
In March we reported on Suzanne’s work helping widows and their children to get off the streets. This began last Christmas when she and the boys at the Home invited street women and children for a meal. She continued meeting several of the women and was deeply touched by their life stories. Here is an […]
Meet the Boys Part 7
Tyler: An orphan from both parents, he is almost 12 years old. He was recommended by a single mother who has taken him from the street a few days before. The woman asked me to let Tyler visit her sometimes because he has become a friend to her son, and I agreed. Three weeks ago, […]
Meet the Boys Part 6
Brody: His parents were killed during the civilian war and he was left by himself. He was less than 10 years old and became a street kid. One concerned man brought him to me and as he was so young, I put him in the home with the other young ones. After five months, he […]
Meet the Boys Part 5
Jose: When his parents died, he stayed with his grand-father who was a sorcerer. One day his grand-father tried to do things on Jose in order to sacrifice him to his idols but Jose refused and ran away. It was how he become a street child. We received him and he is very intelligent at […]
Meet the Boys Part 4
Mason: His mother had him alone and very young. She brought him very far from her own family into the countryside and left him there. She came back to her family acting like a young girl and got a husband like other girls. She became the mother of another boy who is at the home, […]