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"Plumpy Nut" - Peanut Nutrition Program for Kapanga DRC
by Rev. Rody Rowe
Samuteb Hospital in SW DRC was a thriving mission post for medical care as an expression of God’s love in Christ through our church until the1970’s. Then wave upon wave of armed conflict destroyed much of the infrastructure of the hospital and community as well as destroying the railroad and roads in and out. Isolated and gutted by war, it has continued to serve for the past 40 years as best it could the several hundred thousand people of this area.
In 2009, Jan and Kurt Kaiser (UM lay people from the East side) were in Lubumbashi to get the boys’ orphanage built when they were approached by our missionaries in Lubumbashi, the Hoovers, with encouragement of the local Bishop. They asked if the Kaisers might be willing to bring a medical team to Samuteb Hospital for care and training of staff and to begin to break down the isolation the community had experienced for so many years.
In 2010, the Kaisers returned with a team and spent two weeks in Kapanga doing medical care and trying out a new nutritional supplement made of peanut butter and vitamins called plumpy nut with severely undernourished children and their families. They came home with a new mission dream, to make a significant difference to the people of the Kapanga region by establishing an on-going long-term presence for medical care, training and the establishment of a self-sustaining nutrition program run by the people themselves.
Through performances of “Play Something I Can Dance To,” a one-man storytelling program by retired pastor, Rody Rowe, we have raised a little over half of the funds needed to run the first three years of this new mission program. This means that plans are now being made to return to Kapanga in July 2012 and begin this important work.
You can give to this new ministry using the "Go Button" below. After making your donation please email Barbara Dadd Shaffer at BarbDadd@aol.com. to designate your donation for the Peanut Nutrition Program.
You can also sponsor a storytelling evening that will involve your community in this exciting new venture in creating a new way, a different world, a fresh new hope for many people and literally saving and changing countless lives. Read Peanut Nutrition to view Rev. Rody Rowe's full account and to discover your opportunity to sponsor a storytelling evening.
WHAT “DOCTOR’S WITHOUT BORDERS” ARE SAYING:
Doctor’s Without Borders are calling this peanut butter-vitamin mix a miracle food. If you would like to learn more about this new miracle food at the heart of this project, here is a YouTube link to a fine piece done by 60-Minutes: Plumpy Nut.
by Rev. Rody Rowe
Samuteb Hospital in SW DRC was a thriving mission post for medical care as an expression of God’s love in Christ through our church until the1970’s. Then wave upon wave of armed conflict destroyed much of the infrastructure of the hospital and community as well as destroying the railroad and roads in and out. Isolated and gutted by war, it has continued to serve for the past 40 years as best it could the several hundred thousand people of this area.
In 2009, Jan and Kurt Kaiser (UM lay people from the East side) were in Lubumbashi to get the boys’ orphanage built when they were approached by our missionaries in Lubumbashi, the Hoovers, with encouragement of the local Bishop. They asked if the Kaisers might be willing to bring a medical team to Samuteb Hospital for care and training of staff and to begin to break down the isolation the community had experienced for so many years.
In 2010, the Kaisers returned with a team and spent two weeks in Kapanga doing medical care and trying out a new nutritional supplement made of peanut butter and vitamins called plumpy nut with severely undernourished children and their families. They came home with a new mission dream, to make a significant difference to the people of the Kapanga region by establishing an on-going long-term presence for medical care, training and the establishment of a self-sustaining nutrition program run by the people themselves.
Through performances of “Play Something I Can Dance To,” a one-man storytelling program by retired pastor, Rody Rowe, we have raised a little over half of the funds needed to run the first three years of this new mission program. This means that plans are now being made to return to Kapanga in July 2012 and begin this important work.
You can give to this new ministry using the "Go Button" below. After making your donation please email Barbara Dadd Shaffer at BarbDadd@aol.com. to designate your donation for the Peanut Nutrition Program.
You can also sponsor a storytelling evening that will involve your community in this exciting new venture in creating a new way, a different world, a fresh new hope for many people and literally saving and changing countless lives. Read Peanut Nutrition to view Rev. Rody Rowe's full account and to discover your opportunity to sponsor a storytelling evening.
WHAT “DOCTOR’S WITHOUT BORDERS” ARE SAYING:
Doctor’s Without Borders are calling this peanut butter-vitamin mix a miracle food. If you would like to learn more about this new miracle food at the heart of this project, here is a YouTube link to a fine piece done by 60-Minutes: Plumpy Nut.
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Current Total $247,754
December 31, 2010
Due to your extraordinary efforts we have surpassed our initial goal for the Jamaa Letu II Boys' Orphanage. Your generous support is greatly appreciated. Continued assistance is needed for amenities such as bunk beds and kitchen equipment.
Current Total $247,754
December 31, 2010
Due to your extraordinary efforts we have surpassed our initial goal for the Jamaa Letu II Boys' Orphanage. Your generous support is greatly appreciated. Continued assistance is needed for amenities such as bunk beds and kitchen equipment.
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