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FEBBY NGUNI THANKS GOD FOR THE MEAL PROGRAM AND THE CLINIC

Febby Nguni, a single orphan, is doing her 2nd grade at Wiphan’s Sinia center. Febby Nguni says that her father died when she was very young. Her father died of HIV/AIDS and her mother too is infected with the virus and is on ARVS. Febby says that before she came to Wiphan school, she had very POOR HEALTH. Her sick mother , concluded she too was infected before an HIV test was done but after the test was done, Febby tested negative. The Doctor told Febby’s mother that POOR-NUTRITION WAS THE MAJOR CAUSE OF FEBBY’S POOR HEALTH but Febby’s mother could do nothing about Febby’s poor-nutrition.

When Febby’s mother heard about Wiphan schools, she decided to have her daughter enrollled to Wiphan’s Sinia center. Last year, in January, 2008, Febby got enrolled into the first grade. Febby’s health was very bad. She had SCABIES OVER HER WHOLE BODY AND HER CONCENTRATION IN CLASS WAS POOR. Sister Mary took note of Febby and the challenges she had. Febby became a VERY SPECIAL CASE AND WAS GIVEN VERY SPECIAL ATTENTION BY Sister Mary. She helped the young gal by providing SOYA FOODS apart from medicines. The soya foods, the school meal-program and the medicines from Wiphan’s mobile clinic HAVE HELPED TRANSFORM FEBBY’S POOR-HEALTH INTO STRONG HEALTH AND FEBBY LOOKS VERY HEALTHY NOW. ALL THE SCABIES ARE GONE AND FEBBY IS ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST GALS IN HER CLASS.
Febby says that her coming to Wiphan has helped HEAL HER AND TRANSFORM HER LIFE A GREAT DEAL AND SHE IS VERY GRATEFUL TO GOD AND TO WIPHAN –USA. FEBBY SAYS THAT IF WIPHAN’S MOBILE CLINIC CAME ALONG TIME AGO, HER FATHER WOULD STILL BE ALIVE.
Febby says that before she and her mother came to Wiphan, they would sleep on AN EMPTY STOMACH most of the days but now she has enough food from school that carries her through the day and she and her mother really are grateful to God for the FREE MEDICATION, EDUCATION, MEALS, BOOKS AND PENCILS, SHOES AND JUST THE LOVE SHE RECEIVES FROM WIPHAN. FEBBY SAYS THAT SHE THANKS GOD FOR WIPHAN-USA. WIPHAN-USA, IS A GREAT BLESSING TO HER FROM GOD.

FARM-OWNER TAKES KAMBOBE TO SCHOOL INSTEAD OF POLICE-STATION

Kambobe Mesha, 13 years old, is doing grade 2 at Wiphan’s Sinia center. Kambobe says that his both parents died almost at the same time, when he was very young. Relations from both his mother’s and father’s side rejected him and never wanted to have anything to do with him. His grandmother, from his mother’s side (in her old age) decided to get him.
Kambobe’s grandmother, being too old had very little help to offer to Kambobe, apart from shelter. Kambobe testified in an interview that food at his grand mother’s house was very scarce and that they would go without food for several days and such a life became ‘hell’ for Kambobe.
Kambobe’s grand mother started asking him to get down town to beg for financial help but that yielded very little help and life for Kambobe kept getting harder and harder. Each time Kambobe returned home without nothing, his grandmother would even beat him up. Kambobe testifies that he and his grandmother slept on an EMPTY STOMACH most of the days. The young boy started wishing HE WAS NOT BORN. Because of hardships, hunger, rejection and unbearable challenges Kambobe faced at a very tender age, he attempted to commit suicide but God saved his life.

In 2006, Kambobe, joined friends who were RAT-HUNTERS. Kambobe’s friends were a little older than him and had been RAT-HUNTERS FOR SOME TIME. Usually, rats are found in the bush and especially in MAIZE AND GROUNDNUT FIELDS. Kambobe learned RAT-HUNTING SKILLS from his friends in the month of May,of 2006. Kambobe testifies that each time they hunted rats, he would take the rats he hunted to his grandmother. The grandmother would go around the Sinia compound begging for mealie-meal. Whenever the grandmother managed to find mealie-meal, she would make nshima, boil the rats in salt and they would eat and that would ‘make their day’. Because of difficulties in finding mealie- meal, Sometimes Kambobe and his grandmother would just eat boiled rats, drink water and that would be it for that day .
Friends to Kambobe forgot to tell him that RAT-HUNTING was not allowed during the rainy season (from November to April) because it is the time FARM-OWNERS till their fields and plant their crops – MAIZE, GROUND-NUTS, POTATOES, MILLET, SORGHUM, CASSAVA, PUMPKINS, ETC, ETC. Kambobe went on with RAT-HUNTING because that became means of SURVIVAL for him and the granny.

In November, 2006, the FARM-OWNER where Kambobe hunted rats from had his farm tilled and crops planted as usual. Kambobe tells his story that he did not stop hunting for rats even after he had seen that the farm-owner had planted crops in his farm. Kambobe BECAME A GREAT DISTURBANCE TO THE FARM-OWNER because the young boy would end up destroying beds and crops that were planted as he SOUGHT FOR RATS TO HUNT. The owner of the farm prayed to God and asked Him to EXPOSE the person who had become a DESTROYER of his farm.

In January of 2007, Kambobe was CAUGHT by the owner of the farm with a lot of HUNTED-RATS. THE OWNER OF THE FARM TOLD KAMBOBE THAT HE WOULD NOT TAKE HIM TO THE POLICE TO HAVE HIM BEATEN UP AND DESCIPLINED BUT WOULD HAVE HIM ENROLLED INTO SCHOOL BECAUSE SCHOOL WAS THE BEST THING KAMBOBE NEEDED. The farm-owner told Kambobe. For sure the farm-owner, brought Kambobe to Wiphan’s Sinia center and had him enrolled into the first grade, without the knowledge of the grand mother. The farm owner met with Kambobe’s granny after the enrolment.
Kambobe testifies that he and the grandmother REALLY THANK GOD FOR THE FARM-OWNER, WHO HELPED HIM FIND WIPHAN SCHOOL. KABOMBE SAYS THAT FROM THE TIME HE CAME TO WIPHAN SCHOOL, HIS LIFE TOOK A NEW TURN. THE YOUNG BOY ENJOYS SCHOOL AND HE IS VERY DETERMINED TO STUDY HARD AND BECOME A DOCTOR. KAMBOBE IS VERY GRATEFUL FOR THE MEAL PROGRAM AT SCHOOL AND THE BAG OF MEALIE MEAL HIS GRANNY RECIEVES FROM WIPHAN. HUNGER IS NOW A THING OF THE PAST AND HE AND THE GRANNY ARE VERY GRATEFUL FOR WIPHAN-USA FOR THEIR LOVE AND CARE.

Just a quick update on Sinia Center Campus…

Improvements to this campus are coming along nicely. The new addition is quickly going up, water is running and we have power as well!! Thank you to all who are helping make this possible! Check out the pictures below…

Progress of new addition.

Water at Sinia Campus

Notice anything different in this picture? We have lights!!

Kunda recently spoke with several students who are a part of our Child Sponsorship Program/a.k.a. “Pen Pal” program. During our July trip we had the opportunity to watch this program in action by delivering the first letters to the students from their USA pen pals. The impact was obvious…the children beamed with pride as they read their letters and held up the pictures of their USA families. There are still many Wiphan children who would love to have the friendship of a USA pen pal. To find out more about our child sponsorship program visit http://www.wiphan.org/fundraising/child-sponsorship.

Here are Kunda’s interviews…

Priscilla Katongo

Father to Priscilla is deceased. He passed on, on 02.08.2006. When Priscilla’s father died, her mother took custody of her and the rest of her siblings. Priscilla, testifies that as a family, they went through a lot of rejection after the death of her father. No one (both neighbors and relatives) wanted to associate with them because everyone believed they (as a family) were carrying their late father’s GHOST.
Wherever Priscilla went, friends would shun her and run away from her. Priscilla, was at a certain community school before she came to Wiphan and she left her first school because her classmates were running away from her because they believed she had a GHOST OF HER LATE FATHER. When the mother heard about Wiphan Care Ministries and discovered it was embracing widows and orphans, right away Priscilla’s mother brought her and enrolled her at Wiphan’s Sinia center.
Priscilla is very grateful to the Lord for the LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE she has found at Wiphan. Priscilla says that she feels very much at home being at Wiphan. After being prayed for, Priscilla no longer feels she has a ghost. She feels very FREE AND LIBERATED, spiritually and emotionally. Priscilla says that her mother has no job. She just does piece-works and earns very little money and because of that they have little food at home and Priscilla is very grateful to God for the meal-program that has been introduced for the kids at Wiphan schools and also the bag of mealie-meal her mother gets once a month from Wiphan, have been of great help to them as a family. Priscilla says that HUNGER , AT HOME, IS THE THING OF THE PAST. Priscilla now concentrates more in class than she did at her former school and she is very grateful to the Lord. Priscilla feels God loves her so much by being connected to her pen-pals in the States and she is extremely PROUD OF HER U.S.A PEN-PALS.
Priscilla says she loves and appreciates Wiphan-Usa a great deal because they have been a great blessing to her.

Davison Chanda

The father to Davison is deceased. He passed on approximately when Davison was 4 years old. Davison also testifies that he and his young sister, Memory Chanda (doing grade 1 at Wiphan’s Sinia center) suffered from REJECTION because people around them believed they carrying a ghost of their late father. Davison’s mother does piece-works on farms and goes away for long periods of time, hence they are left with the grand-mother to fend for them. Grandmother is too old to do a thing, therefore, there’s little or no food at all at home. Davison says that he has found a SWEET LOVING AND CARING FAMILY AT WIPHAN CARE MINISTRIES. Davison says that, he and his sister Memory, have found A WONDERFUL HOME AT WIPHAN.
The food they receive from Wiphan’s meal program has been of great help to them and has kept them nourished and helps him concentrate a lot in class. Davison says that his former school never provided food and so it was very hard for him to concentrate in class because they would go without food, at home, for 2 – 3 days but now it is easier for him to concentrate with the meal programme and that is also one of the reasons Davison is top in class. Davison is very grateful to God for the pen-pals he has in the USA.
Davison says that he is very determined to study extra hard, get educated and become a dignitary in society. Davison says that he is very grateful for the shoes, t-shirt, pencils, books and all the blessings he’s been receiving from Wiphan-Usa. He says he will hold Wiphan-Usa in GREAT AND HIGH ESTEEM ALL HIS LIFE, for all they have done for him. Davison says that, God bless Wiphan-Usa abundantly and richly, for being such a great channel of blessings to him and his young sister.

Tonnes and tonnes of love,
Kunda for wiphan

The following is from an email Kunda sent us about some of the children Wiphan is helping.  We wanted our Wiphan USA family to read her words unedited because we felt that it portrayed the stories in the best way but they do have sensitive content.  We pray that you are encouraged by the amazing things that God has done!!

From Kunda…

MICHEAL’S ESCAPE FROM WITCH-CRAFT
Micheal Ngandwe tells his story……….

Micheal Ngandwe, now doing grade seven at Wiphan Mapalo center, was born in 1994.  father died when he was 3 years old. Micheal is now kept by his widowed mother, aged 50 years.

Micheal testifies that when his father died, the young brother to his late father decided to get him so that he could raise him up. The most unfortunate thing was that Micheal’s uncle had a TERRIBLE AND EVIL AGENDA against Micheal. Micheal’s uncle used to be a WITCH and wanted to initiate Micheal into witchcraft. At age 9, Micheal started having very strange dreams. He would dream someone RIDING ON HIM and taking him to different homes and being used to kill people. Sometimes Micheal would dream he was in the graveyard doing witchcraft rituals with his uncle but he kept failing to understand what was really happening to him because he was too young to grasp a thing. Then suddenly Micheal fell very ill to a point of death. Micheal’s uncle cared less and never bothered to inform the mother. Later, concerned neighbors made efforts to inform the mother about Micheal’s illness. Micheal’s mother traveled and got her son from his deadly uncle.

Micheal’s mother, a believer in Christ, and a member of Wiphan church,  trusted God for the healing and deliverance of her son and with the help of other Wiphan church members, Micheal was prayed for and thank God that God touched and Healed Micheal miraculously.

A month later, Micheal’s mother decided to have her son enrolled at Wiphan school in Mapalo. Micheal testifies that Wiphan school has been a GREAT ‘HOME’ for him. Micheal says that his life has been blessed beyond what he can explain. He never knew how to read and write but now he knows. He says that he is very determined to study extra hard so that by the grace of God, he will become one of the DIGINITARIES in society who will bless his family and the nation of Zambia.

Few months later, Micheal’s uncle visited and made an OPEN CONFESSION. He confessed it was him who killed the father to Micheal so that he could initiate Micheal into the witchcraft he was involved in. Praise be to God that Micheal’s uncle was told the word of God and was helped to repent and later threw away the witch-craft he had.

MICHEAL SAYS HE WILL LIVE TO PRAISE AND HONOUR THE NAME OF THE LORD BECAUSE OF THE GREAT THINGS GOD HAS DONE FOR HIM AT WIPHAN – PRAISE BE TO GOD.

BRIDGET NDASHI TELLS HER STORY……………

Bridget, now doing grade seven at Wiphan, Mapalo center, was born in 1993. Her father died in 1998, when she was 5 years old. Relations from her late father’s side rejected them. Bridget and her mother had nowhere to turn to. When the mother to Bridget heard about Wiphan, she had her daughter  Bridget enrolled to Wiphan school, at Mapalo center.

Bridget testifies that life became extremely hard after the passing on of her father. Food in their home became scarce and HOPE to face TOMORROW
was all gone. At age 8, an evil man, (from the neighbouhood) took advantage of Bridget’s and her mother’s poverty and started to ABUSE the young gal. The first time Bridget was sexually abused, she was given money (very little money) AND  was warned not to mention it to her mother or anyone. a few days later, Bridget was found with a sexually transmitted disease and after being interogated by the mother she disclosed the evil that was happening to her. Thank God that the abuser was caught and jailed.

When the mother heard about Wiphan, she started bringing her daughter for prayers and later, had her enrolled into Wiphan school and Brigdet testifies that life took a NEW TURN from the time she enrolled at Wiphan school. She testifies that illiteracy has gone off her life and she is determined to study extra hard and become a nurse.

Bridget says that she enjoys learning, she enjoys the meals and she thanks God for the shoes they got last year. Bridget says that she never had shoes for many years and most of the time she had deep wounds becuase of hitting her feet against stones and sometimes becuase of stepping on sharp items. Bridget says she is very grateful to the Lord that WIPHAN EXISITS – PRAISE BE TO GOD.

GLORY AND HONOUR BE TO THE LORD, OUR GOD. GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE AND HE IS GREATLY TO BE PRAISED.  Many stories about the goodness of God to His people at Wiphan shall continue coming.

TONNES AND TONNES OF LOVE,

Kunda for Wiphan