Hope Zimbabwe

Children with HIV suffer with all kinds of stigmas and labels, for example…

• ‘Children of lesser Gods’
• ‘AIDS orphans’
• ‘Children on the brink’
• ‘Orphans and vulnerable children’

Champions for life continues to instil in their Champions that they are Children With Hope & Courage and that God hasn’t forgotten them, but rather knows their names and has chosen them to be His children. They work in many areas to meet all the needs of such children, aiming to:

1. Strengthen capacity of families
2. Mobilize and strengthen community and church responses
3. Ensure access to education, health care, and other services
4. Ensure government protection
5. Use advocacy and social mobilization

Please pray as 2011 begins:

• The Champions for life team will continue to give identity and confidence to their children.

• That through partnership with HealthServe Australia many of these children who cannot afford school fees will have opportunity to go to school and will be placed in a nurturing and encouraging learning environment, especially when they have missed several years of schooling due to poverty and illness.

• Champions for life will raise up leaders from its children to teach other children like them about how to rise above the stigma of having HIV.

• The consistent monthly seminars would continue in many centres over Zimbabwe and that passionate leaders and teachers would continue to volunteer their time to sew into these children’s lives.

• Champions for life will be a light to the nation and have powerful impact in bringing unity in the AIDS relief work done in the wider community.

02/12/2010 Please pray for:

• Champions for Life Christmas Celebration party on 11th December for 400 Champions at the Celebration Centre.

• ‘The program will start at 9am with praise and worship. Then about 10am will be word and drama and ministry, about 11am we will have a thank you and Celebration session where we thank people who have been involved in Champions- we will give prizes out to every FOC for notable aspects of their work in Champions. At 1230 we will have braai (BBQ) lunch outside- in Rimfire park and then games etc.

• Pray that many lives will be touched and that there will be overflowing JOY and DELIVERANCE at these meetings.

• Champions Tawanda and Tinashe and Lawrance who have been Champions involved in the dance and song at The National Gallery. The gallery is running art work done by young people living with HIV. The dance and song is on Monday, wednesday and friday at 6pm until end of next week. Please pray that these Champions will be a light for Jesus and have a wonderful time.

• Brother Gift is getting married!! We pray for a wonderful and blessed wedding and fruitful and happy marriage.

• Dr Reid who attends a HIV research meeting in Uganda next week. We pray for great new effective steps forward in the management of HIV/AIDS crisis.

• Sister Pauline Dube who runs a shelter program for some of the Champions. She is also coordinating the Champions for Life schooling program and ensuring that the sponsored children have all that is required to attend school and following up their progress.

Back to the Top