Greetings!
"HOW ARE THE CHILDREN?" What if we were to use that single question as the criteria by which we measure the health of our communities?
"GOD, please change our lives." That is today's prayer of the HAPI Peace Pals program and the children of Mizak as they meet every week to share messages of peace, hope and possibility.
In the words of St Teresa Avila:
"Christ has no body now on earth but yours,
no hands but yours, no feet but yours,
Yours are the eyes through which is to look out
Christ's compassion to the world;
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good;
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless men now."
Since January 12, Peace Pals swelled from 100 children each week to 500.
Your donations have -
- distributed over $10,000 in food relief to their families
- created a 'Shalom Zone' where the children meet in a safe space
- provided two trauma-recovery camps
- purchased one festival tent
- established a fund for microloans to qualifying parents
