Sub-Saharan Africa Orphans Help Fund

Provide food, clothes, shoes, medicines, school fees and uniforms, and the gospel for Sub-Saharan African orphans to change their lives and Africa’s future.
With an estimated 50 million orphans, Sub-Saharan Africa bears the scars of human tragedy. While the AIDS epidemic has orphaned 15 million children in Africa since the 1970s*, HIV/AIDS drugs have made great strides in reducing deaths from the disease. This once-great killer disease has been brought under control, but war, famine, violence, disease, and family issues are currently decimating families. Many older children end up taking care of their younger siblings by themselves when all the adults in the family have died, leaving these young ones vulnerable to sexual abuse, violence, and human trafficking. A few orphans stay with relatives; however, these grandmothers, aunts, and uncles often do not have enough money for their own families and cannot support extra children.

In response, IMB has launched a fund to assist not only AIDS orphans but any orphans through our Baptist churches in Africa. Giving to this fund will help buy food and medications, pay school fees, and purchase clothing and school uniforms. IMB missionaries will personally distribute the funds to help orphans who are members of Baptist churches or who are members of the missionaries’ community. Your gift to the Sub-Saharan Africa Orphan Help Fund will help these children know that Jesus cares about their needs. Your partnership with local missionaries and Baptist churches will communicate that God wants to show them love through His body, the church. Give today to change these orphans’ lives and their country’s future.
With an estimated 50 million orphans, Sub-Saharan Africa bears the scars of human tragedy. While the AIDS epidemic has orphaned 15 million children in Africa since the 1970s*, HIV/AIDS drugs have made great strides in reducing deaths from the disease. This once-great killer disease has been brought under control, but war, famine, violence, disease, and family issues are currently decimating families. Many older children end up taking care of their younger siblings by themselves when all the adults in the family have died, leaving these young ones vulnerable to sexual abuse, violence, and human trafficking. A few orphans stay with relatives; however, these grandmothers, aunts, and uncles often do not have enough money for their own families and cannot support extra children.

In response, IMB has launched a fund to assist not only AIDS orphans but any orphans through our Baptist churches in Africa. Giving to this fund will help buy food and medications, pay school fees, and purchase clothing and school uniforms. IMB missionaries will personally distribute the funds to help orphans who are members of Baptist churches or who are members of the missionaries’ community. Your gift to the Sub-Saharan Africa Orphan Help Fund will help these children know that Jesus cares about their needs. Your partnership with local missionaries and Baptist churches will communicate that God wants to show them love through His body, the church. Give today to change these orphans’ lives and their country’s future.
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Elementary school fees: Zimbabwe
$5
pays for 1 term
School supply backpack: S. Africa
$10
provides for 1 student
Groceries: Durban, South Africa
$50
buys for 1 orphan
School fees: Nairobi, Kenya
$100
covers 1 high school student
School fees, uniform, food, medicines
$200
supports 1 orphan
School fees, uniform, food, medicines
$2000
supports 10 orphan

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Sub-Saharan African Peoples

From the jagged Atlas Mountains to the vast Sahara Desert and the wildlife of the Serengeti, Africa is unrivaled for natural beauty and the hospitality of her people. Most Sub-Saharan Africans live hand-to-mouth, surviving on what they can harvest and herd, but regardless of status or wealth, most Africans share a common bond in community, family, and tribe.

Home to 2,500 ethnic groups, the region once characterized by sweeping poverty is redefining itself with bustling economies and technological enterprise. Eleven of the twenty-five fastest-growing global cities are in Sub-Saharan Africa. Whether urban-or-village dwellers, though, many Africans still try to manipulate spiritual powers through charms, sacrifices, and divination. The hope of the gospel is desperately needed.

African believers are catching a vision for sharing their faith. Sub-Saharan Africa is poised to become a tremendous missionary-sending force. Ask God to fan the flames of evangelism and cover Africa with his glory.

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