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Speaking at a church conference last Saturday, legislator for Selebi Phikwe West said there is a need to cultivate a culture of sharing. The Sunday School conference was organised by the Apostolic Faith Mission Church and its theme was ‘Sharing wealth as a tool in hand to fight poverty’. The event was organised by the church youth from various parts of the country to extend a helping hand to orphans who received gifts such as clothes and money.
“The Apostolic Faith Mission Church is showing us that grace can be touched and felt through the gifts they are ready to give out today. They are here to show us that grace does not seek to bless itself but to reach out and bless others, sharing and giving a part or whole of itself to the other. Right here in our town, women face the daily challenges of single parenting and breast cancer, men and women face unemployment and the challenges of the extended family, young people and children become orphans and needy day after day, heightening the need for grace on a daily basis and occasions like this one need to be repeated over and over until the whole world rings with grace,” he said.
Kario told the conference that the Central Statistics Office in 2003 reported that there are approximately 78,000 orphans in the country with about 42,000 enrolled in the government’s Orphan Care programme.
“In Phikwe, the programme has under its care 744 orphans with 235 in Botshabelo North, 233 in the Kagiso area, 134 in Ikageleng and 87 in Rekakgona. The programme houses most of these orphans in government facilities, as well as completing housing projects for orphans whose parents left incomplete structures. Now as we speak, the government is busy building a house for this same purpose in Botshabelo,” he said.
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