Changing Africa, One Village at a Time

By Marvin Olasky
Thursday, January 31, 2008

CHISAMBA, Zambia -- It's 7:15 Monday morning in a cement-block house near this country's major highway, the paved, two-lane Great North Road. Supervisor Peter Phiri, who helped to build that road during the 1990s, is speaking to 40 employees starting their workweek in a country where AIDS, unemployment and corruption are all rampant. They sit on planks held up by cement blocks in the building their own hands constructed.

Intense and energetic, Phiri tells them, It's up to you, up to me, to choose. Pray to God to give you a right choice. Remember that without Jesus, you can't accomplish anything." HIV statistics in Africa show that many have chosen wrongly. The well-documented failure of many government and big philanthropic projects shows that many would-be helpers have chosen wrongly.

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We visited a Village of Hope Orphanage near Chingola, and was very impressed with their homes. Much of what we are planning at House of Faith Orphanage in Silimbe, Zambia, is based on this model -though on a smaller scale at each site.