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Officially, between 800,000 and 900,000 children have been orphaned by AIDS.

40 per cent of health infrastructure has been destroyed in Masisi, North Kivu in Eastern Congo.

Only 45 per cent of people have access to safe drinking water. In some rural areas, this is as low as three per cent.

Four out of ten children are not in school. 400,000 displaced children have no access to education.

Of 145,000 km of roads, no more than 2,500km are asphalt

While here in Kampala, Uganda, I have witnessed with my own ears through people, radio and media some of these things. It was not simple news to bear as my heart was seriously broken and tears running out of my eyes for the whole evening and night when I heard people from my own village and city of Bukavu telling how they have lost their relatives, tortured, staying without shelter and horrible conditions under which they are living now. Needless to mention the numerous cases of women raped.

United Nations recent report on Congo, has talked of over 4 millions people died since the outbreak of the war in 1996 up to now. Most of these people estimated to have died have been mainly women, children and the elderly.

When you look at the above horrible situations above, one could wonder if there is any hope of rescuing the lives of the thousands and thousands of orphans, poor, needy and afflicted people seeking for help. By faith I say there is still hope. Why? Because God has promised that He will never forsake the poor and needy; Isaiah 41:17-18: ”When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongues fail for thirst, I the Lord will hear them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water“. In addition to this the Lord has given His unfailing assurance to maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor; Psalm 140:12(KJV).

It is a blessing that our Lord Jesus came to bring everything clear to us. Despite having this ministry of help to vulnerable people one of the major ministries of my calling, in my own study of the word of God I have come to understand that ministering to the poor and needy is an assignment at least everyone who has pleasure in well-doing (needless to mention disciples of Christ) should carry on and when we seem to ignore it and get ”used“ to what governments system offers to us, the oppressor and ruler of this world takes over.

When I switched to Mark 10:21, I drew a very impacting teaching regarding this ministry to the poor and needy. In Ezekiel 16:49, God tenders His will to have forgiven Sodom at least if they strengthened the hand of the poor and needy.