The Stories : Emergencies
A childhood torn apart
Civil war broke out in the Democratic Republic of Congo when Patrick was six. His mum died four years later, and his dad was shot by rebels when he was 15. Aged 16, he was forced to live on a barren lava plain with other fleeing the fighting.
Patrick says ‘I want peace – everyone is crying out for peace.I would like to tell your people that my future is uncertain and while I’m in this camp I cannot study. So please help my schooling –that would be great.’
Through our disaster response teams, we’re reaching out to Patrick with practical and spiritual support – and beyond to millions of other children whose lives have been torn apart by conflicts and disasters. After the Haiti earthquake thousands of children have been orphaned and hundreds of thousands left homeless.
Please pray with us, crying out with the people of the DRC to God for peace. Express your faith in action, and help children like Patrick to rise above a brutal childhood and desperate current circumstances.
€17 a month could pay for trauma counselling for four children
€17 a month could provide emergency household items, water containers and blankets for four children like Patrick
€17 a month could provide a household latrine for five children like Patrick every year
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Unspeakable horrors
Ahmed was three years old when he witnessed his father being killed and his village burned by the Janjaweed rebels in Darfur, western Sudan. For two years afterwards, Ahmed didn’t speak a single word.
Then, at the age of five, he started attending a children’s club run by Tearfund. Week after week, he went along with his mother, to learn about health and hygiene, through games and songs. Halfway through a session, Ahmed miraculously began to sing.
‘Our lives have been restored,’ says his mother. ‘I have hope for the future.’
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