Hands on Africa

Vital Stats

Anneke D

Romeoville, IL

  • people helped1140
  • People Doing It 142

The Problem

We currently work in Kenya, Malawi, and Sierra Leone in Africa. There is so much poverty and sickness there and our organization was started after we felt a calling to help these people. Currently we have an orphanage, medical centre, maternity ward, widow centre, and Bible school in Kenya. We have an orphanage, small farm, small health clinic, and a Bible school in Malawi. We also are currently looking for funding to build an orphanage and medical centre in Sierra Leone too and have already bought three rice fields to be able to give food to the orphans and surrounding community where we will be building the orphanage. We hope to not only help these people for today, but teach them how to look after themselves in the future. We start education funds for our orphans as soon as we take them in so that they will have a chance to go to school once they are old enough. We have had some children graduate from high school since starting our mission work in Kenya 11 years ago. We have done all of this through donations only and hope to keep building up what we have already done so that we can help even more people.

Plan of Action

I would like to raise money to build an orphanage in Sierra Leone, as well as a small medical clinic. We also need continued support for our orphans, and if we receive enough money for them we might even be able to take more orphans in than we currently have.

Project Updates

This past Christmas we had a new program added called "Christmas Box of hope". For all of the orphans we currently have (which is 112 orphans)along with 28 other orphans from other organizations, we gave each of them a christmas box filled with a new set of clothes, shoes, a toothbrush, toothpaste, mosquito net, and other basic necessities. For nearly every single child this was their first Christmas gift they have ever received and they were overjoyed as they opened their boxes. We had wonderful sponsors, who we thank with all our heart for their contribution this Christmas. We appreciate their contributions and can assure them that their sacrifice brought great smiles and joy to these orphans.