How Can You Help? -

Make a Future Possible for an Orphaned Child

Your gift will make a positive difference in the lives of African orphans and other vulnerable children (OVC). Your regular donation will help the orphans by providing housing, food, clothing, health-care, education, and loving caregivers. Even if you can donate only $5.00 a week, that would be $20 a month and would come to just $240 a year. To ensure that your generosity has the most impact, please consider pledging annually.

In fiscal year 2019, 95 percent of all SPCS expenditures went to program services to include food, medicine, education, bonuses for caregivers, building materials, labor and livestock. The SPCS has no paid staff, and its only expenses are the costs of advertising and payment to our sister organization in Zambia to monitor and evaluate the Lusaka projects; thus, donations go directly to its projects which are closely monitored and regularly visited by SPCS Committee members.

For more information, or to volunteer to assist the St. Peter Claver Society, contact St. John the Beloved Parish at 703-356-7916 or email amdgspcs@gmail.com

Consider how far your donation can go:

SPONSORING A CHILD for SIX MONTHS: $120

FUNDING HIGH SCHOOL OR SKILLS TRAINING: $200 – $300

- $70 per year will keep a girl or boy at St Anthony Children’s Village in elementary school
- $200 a year will keep an orphan in high school. $700 will pay for boarding school
- $80 will provide an infant with food, shelter, medical care for one month
- $45 will buy a piglet for the Cardinal Mazombwe Agricultural and Life Skills Centre
- $3,000 will pay for the tuition for a Mazombwe Centre college student
- $10 will buy a bag of Mealie Meal, a dietary staple in Zambia
  
  Mealie-meal is a relatively coarse flour (much coarser than cornflour or cornstarch) made from maize.
  
  One bag of Mealie Meal costs about $10