“Sing to him, make music for him, recount all his wonders!” Today’s reading from Psalms 105 reminds me of the precious children living at St. John Bosco Rehabilitation Center in Kitale, Kenya, a home and education program for street children.
These boys are making use of the new lavatory Cross Catholic funded for Vilaj Espwa (Hope Village), a home for orphaned and vulnerable children in Haiti. The facility replaced pit latrines that were ready to retire.
Sister Fabiola Jolanta Lech, a midwife with the Missionary Sisters Servants of the Holy Spirit, provides health care for poor, rural Ethiopian families at the Cross Catholic Outreach-funded Minne Health Post. Recently, Sr. Fabiola wrote to us about how God is using her to make a difference:
At St. John Bosco Rehabilitation Center in Kitale, Kenya, 180 orphans and street children have the opportunity to receive a formal education in a loving Catholic environment. “Thanks to Cross Catholic Outreach’s support of St. John Bosco, these children become more mature.
This letter just arrived from our ministry partner Brother Beausang Catholic School in the desperately poor region of Embul-bul, Kenya. There, Cross Catholic Outreach provides education and daily meals to 800 impoverished students, as well as supplies teacher and staff salaries for compassionate and hardworking people like Esther Mwangi. She writes:
Our Projects Officer to Africa, Tara McKinney, just returned from visiting our Cross Catholic partners in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world and more than 70 percent of children under 7 have never had the opportunity to attend school.