Education of the children at Khayelihle Children’s Village (KCV) has been a challenge recently. During the recent teacher’s strike private lessons were organised for the child...
Stories
Please find below a collection of our latest stories.
Nyarai's Story of Life at KCV
Developments in Sudan
Ros Stafford-Green joined Joseph Mawien and Steve Blacket on their return visit to Southern Sudan in January. Ros, who has a medical background has been involved in the development of the medi...
Volunteer Voice in Haiti
Alex Morse is a Church World Service Volunteer in the Dominican Republic and a former Global Mission Intern of Global Ministries. Alex has provided an update regarding the work being don...
Bright Solutions, Vietnam
Bright Solutions is being established as a GMP owned vocational training and consultancy company in Vietnam. It will offer training and services to assist people in developing their employment...
COCOA Projects in Vietnam
Food Aid
The Food Aid Program was established in 2009 to assist the poorest of the ethnic minority families to cope with the effects of the economic downt...
Water for Life
Since the drilling programme commenced in Zimbabwe three years ago fifty-two boreholes have been drilled. Of the 10 boreholes drilled and equipped with pumps in 2009 from COCOA donations (New ...
English Books for Londua
A request has come through from the teachers at Londua Training School for the following text books which are part of their Year 9/10 English Studies curriculum:
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Haiti Update
It is just over one month since the horrifying earthquake hit Haiti on January 12. In the capital Port-au-Prince and other parts of Haiti the victims commemorated the tragedy ...
Building Capacity and Sustainability in PNG
The churches that we are in partnership with in Papua New Guinea are all in settings where people survive on what they grow and sell. It is a subsistence economy and resources are t...
News from Fiji
Nancy, a young Hindu woman, had been attending the Lautoka Church of Christ on the western side of the main island of Fiji for several months last year. Following a wonderful seaso...
Victims of War
It is impossible to get accurate statistics in Sudan, but the number of fatalities after forty years of civil war is estimated as high as two million. Orphans and widows are everywh...
Khayelihle Kids
Zimbabwe House is now complete! Once it is furnished, more children will be added to the Khayelihle Children’s Village (KCV) family which currently numbers 89.
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New Projects in Vietnam
Fiona Briers, from Cross Culture Church of Christ in Melbourne, has been working in Ho Chi Minh City since July 2009. She is working towards providing educational training developme...
Another Ankoor Anecdote
In November 2009 a team from Bowral Church of Christ visited Ankoor Children's Home for the second time to assist in some practical ways around the campus.
Perspective on Mission
Why Long Term Mission?
With the current trend towards the popularity of short term missions not looking like slowing down anytime soon, the question has to be asked what effect if any this...
Assisting at Ashwood
I had the privilege of spending 10 days at Ashwood Mission Hospital, in the rural town of Daund, east of Mumbai. During my time at Ashwood, I was able to witness a number of ways in which Ashwood c...
House Churches in Vietnam
A few weeks ago the Ho Chi Minh City Church of Christ celebrated the baptism of nine young people. The church meets in an apartment. After the worship service they gathered at the local swimming po...