About ChristCares Ministry

HIV/AIDS is causing great devastation to the population of Malawi. The majority of HIV infections occurs among the youth. That is why it was imperative that a program be setup to help the youth of Malawi understand the infection and its prevention.

RECREATION AND EDUCATION PROGRAM (After School program)

The youth center provides a recreation and educational program to 40 children of ages between 13 and 21 years old of five different villages. Activities includes, tutoring, biblical teaching and sports. Beside that, kids are learning about HIV/AIDS. The intent is that these activities will offer alternative extra curricular as well as educational that will help them to stay focus and improve their academic performance. These 40 kids will set an example to live as role model to other kids from their respective villages. Our ministry is supporting 10 girls by providing them with a good Christian secondary education. The program of girl’s sponsorship will help poor families to send their daughters to school and be able to sustain themselves. This will help to increase percentage of girls attending high school. The education program will help to develop the community, as these kids become leaders in their communities.

HIV/AIDS SEMINAR FOR CHURCH LEADERS

Christ Cares Ministry has offered seminars on HIV/AIDS awareness to 20 leaders of ten different churches (denominations) from the same five surrounding villages for the period of two years. This brought awareness among the youth by teaching these leaders passed along this knowledge to their youth groups. We hope by the end of this program about two thousand youth of different churches will be knowledgeable about the disease. These leaders will be taught on how they can reach to the youth groups in their churches with reality of the main cause of HIV/AIDS virus. Our hope is that these seminars will as well help many people in the community who harbor false ideas and beliefs about the main cause of the HIV virus. These church leaders were taught to encourage their youths in their churches to go for voluntary counseling testing (V.C.T) at the missions hospital which is located in the same area.

EXPECTED OUTCOME:

• Change of academic performance with excellent grades for high school.

• Increased awareness of HIV/AIDS among the youth of five villages.

• Increase in the number of girls attending high school.

• Spiritual growth among the kids.