Giving Hope and Rebuilding Lives

Dear Frens,

It is with much thanks to everyone for contributing so generously to help Sohpeak from my last email. Your time to tell friends about it, your prayers and the contributions that came in for this project.

The money is now in Cambodia with the Don Bosco sisters and we will be working with sisters there to ensure your contribution is maximised ad spent according to plan. Sisters will as usual acknowledge all monies received as soon as they can.

It is truely with God's grace that we not only managed to help repair Sohpeak's house but also help another family in a similar plight.

This family has 7 children. The mother works as construction worker, the father is sick with a lung problem.
Their house also floods when it rains. They recently borrowed 20$ to buy some sand, just simply sand, because when it rains, the inside of the house becomes completely muddy, just as you would be on a muddy road.

The Don Bosco Sisters have also said that the ground floor is built with red bricks without mortar and it's dark and black because of the smoke and soot form the kitchen. The roof is also leaking badly as it has many holes.

The father though sick, is eager to fix the house himself  if we supply him, the materials. Two weekends ago, our friend Audrey flew to Phom Penh, she visited the house and this is what she assessed:

1. ground floor is covered in sand. There is no concrete base under. All the furniture sits on sand.
2. Staircase going upstairs is narrow and unsteady.
3. walls dividing the rooms upstairs are breaking/ rotting away
4. exterior wooden walls of the upper house are very old. Possibly from 15 yrs ago when the house was first built.
5. furniture is old and rundown; the upper rooms have no furniture - clothes are hanged on a rope or pole; bedding is worn out.

Thank you to all for blessing these families with a warm and dry home to live in.

May the generosity of all who contributed to this project in any way be filled with the Lord's Spirit and may your hearts be filled with the same warmth of love from God as you have so kindly extended to our poorer brothers and sisters in Christ.

God Bless,
Mill