(Photo: Working on the Girls’ Dormitory) The St. Peter Claver Society sends a heartfelt “thank you” to St. John the Beloved parishioners and friends for your generous donations to our annual July Special Collection. You made it possible to meet our goal of funding the construction of a simple open-air kitchen at the Cardinal Mazombwe Agricultural and Life Skills Training Center in Kazungula, Zambia. The kitchen will allow boarding students to prepare their meals. Your support is deeply appreciated. God bless you all.
2023 St. Peter Claver Society Requesting Donations to Build an Open Air Kitchen
St. Peter Claver’s Feast Day, September 9
Siblings Improving Daily Since Coming to St. Anthony Children’s Village
When St. Anthony Children’s Village was established in May 2003, the majority of the children were HIV infected, their mothers having died from AIDS. However, with the availability of ARVs (anti-retroviral drugs) for adults and children, more mothers are able to live and care for their children. Currently, St. Anthony’s has increased the number of vulnerable children it welcomes to include those who have been abandoned by their families, or whose mothers are incapable of caring for them, and especially those with special needs. St. Anthony’s provides both physical and emotional support to these children in a loving and caring community. As needed, the kids receive physiotherapy from a qualified physiotherapist. Caregivers continue with the exercises. The St. Peter Claver Society, which has supported St. Anthony’s since 2004, raised the necessary funds to purchase the physiotherapy equipment.
Siblings, James and Chikondi, are not orphans, but their extremely poor parents locked the children in a house without food. When James and Chikondi arrived at St. Anthony Children’s Village, they were severely malnourished; Chikonddi could not walk at all, and James was unable to walk straight. With physiotherapy and proper nutrition, they can now walk and are able to go to school. Donations are especially needed to deal with the impact of the pandemic.
Herbert
This handsome young boy was found near the Ndola Teaching Hospital where he had been abandoned by a relative, because his stepmother refused to accept him. Herbert has found a loving home at St. Anthony Children’s Village, Ndola, Zambia, which has been supported by the St. Peter Claver Society since 2004.