With COVID still preventing large fund-raising gatherings, we are very grateful to report that even so, we are continuing to make great progress at Grace Orphanage.

This is only possible through the continue and very generous support of our donors. – THANK YOU!

Although we have a staff member in each home as a house Mom (for the girls’ house) or Dad (for the boys’ house), our managing staff with their own families do not have living quarters on site. Our focus the last part of the year was to ensure that the dedicated staff members also have a safe place to call home. We are excited that with a very generous donation from Oceanside Church in Nanaimo, we were able to start our first staff home on site in August. This house is earmarked for David and his family, who run the orphanage and had faced major flooding this past year in their rental suite.

The soil at Grace Orphanage is excellent for growing just about anything. Under Hosea, the Orphanage Manager’s direction, in August the children harvested rice and in September the cabbage crop was ready for picking by Winama and Daniel. The Orphanage use as much as it can from the harvest and the surplus is sold to fund the next crop.

When Emedi was one year old, he was found in an abandoned building by a poor, elderly lady. She could not properly care for him.  An Auntie from Grace Orphanage saw him on the street with swollen tummy, hands, and feet. She told the staff at Grace Orphanage, who arranged for him to get medical help. He was immediately admitted to hospital in a state of severe malnutrition. Two weeks later, he is still struggling, but on a slow road to recovery. He will join the Grace family as soon as he is well enough to go home.

When the children at Grace Orphanage were asked what they wanted for Christmas, it was almost unanimous: clothes and underwear. Our donors stepped up and each child received a new outfit and two sets of underwear. Thank you to all who donated.