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A Hopeless Plight | 09-Jun-2006
Of the 5.5 million orphans in Africa; approximately 700,000 live iin Rwanda alone. The most densely populated country in Africa, Rwanda is smaller than the state of Maryland, carrying 1/8th of Africa’s enormous orphan population.
Six of ten Rwandan women are widows awaking every morning to the reality that they are the sole providers and protectors of their families. Providing essential needs of food, clothing, and education is complicated by her lack of education and resources. Faced with the choice to sell her body and drugs or to let her children starve, she finds no hope.
One27 is working as an ambassador of Christ, bringing the hope of The Gospel to these who are both physically and spiritually lost: one piece of bread, one article of clothing, one school scholarship, one Bible at a time.