Visiting the ABC Kids

In September of this year, we made our annual visit to Rwanda to visit our friends at Christ Gospel Fellowship Church (CGF) and to check up on all of the ABC kids. We were able to see 231 children in the program (all but three)!

Since the children are in school, it required a lot of traveling across Rwanda to visit some of them. Many are away at boarding schools so they were very excited to have visitors come to their schools. The majority of the children live in or near Kimironko, the community where CGF Church is located and the headquarters for ABC Rwanda.

Most of the sponsors sent letters, pictures, and small gifts, which were all hand-delivered to the children as we visited each of them. The children were very excited to receive the letters and gifts from their sponsors.

Overall, the children are doing very well. A few currently have Malaria but are receiving treatment for it. One of the children recently found out he was HIV+ and he had a very difficult time dealing with this news. We were able to see him the day after he was released from the hospital, but he was not doing very well.

Prayers are needed for all of the children in the program, especially those infected with HIV. These children are now receiving extra food from the ABC program since it was discovered that food along with the medication play a crucial part in the health of the infected children.

There are currently 81 children on the waiting list to be sponsored. If you are interested in sponsoring a child or would like to know more about this program that is not on the website (www.abcrwanda.org) , please send us an email at abc@calvarylahabra.org and we will gladly answer any of your questions. To see the children who need sponsors, click here.