Africa 2020

The Team

As you know at this time of the year, we are usually preparing to send a team over to support our partner community in Mafambisa. This year was no exception that is until COVID-19 paralysed the world. Our team this year is:

John Dilley, Ben Dilley, Lucy Dilley, Paul Canty, Linda Canty, Sophie Child, Simon Mitchell, Carolyn Tebbutt, Jack Marron, Peter Giles, Alice Scott, Chris Parker.

As we have done in previous years, the team will introduce themselves over the next few days. We have also asked previous team members to share their stories and pictures, that we will also include on the blog through out the time that we would have been out in Africa. 

Mafambisa

Below you will find an update written for us about Mafambisa. As a team we have also had some video updates from Mafambisa, showing how they are coping with Lockdown; pictures of socially distanced chairs in a line for the children to sit on, whilst they wait for their food. But one thing they said really touched our hearts. The children of Mafambisa, know about the pandemic and obviously know why we cannot visit them this year. But the children of Mafambisa have said this because we are really vulnerable too and suffering at the moment- they understand the wider situation, and they are praying for us!

Prayer

We want to use the time that we would have been over there to really focus our prayers and thoughts on the community of Mafambisa. Please try to pray every day for the children, the Care Workers who cook for them and visit them in their homes, for the Care Givers who take the children into their homes (often Aunties, Grandmothers, sometimes older siblings, often only 15 or 16 years of age).