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Here are the stories of some of the children being helped by FISCH. Children like Isaya, whose parents both died before he was twelve years old, who left school because he was unable to cope, and who ended up carrying luggage and working on a building site for a paltry living. Sleeping on the streets, he was occasionally arrested by the police and locked up for a few days each time. When a friend told him about FISCH he went along, initially attracted by the almost unbelievable promise of a free meal. Through FISCH he is now enrolled in a carpentry course. He dreams of running his own workshop and, one day, being reunited with his siblings and providing for them as well. Or take Emmanuel, a boy who doesn’t know how old he is. Although his parents are both alive he has lost contact with them and left home when life became too tough. He would wash second-hand shoes all day as a job, earning him slightly less than £1 for a day’s work. He would also collect and dispose of rubbish in the streets, earning a few more shillings. He hoped every day that he would be able to find someone to support him. FISCH answered that hope. Emmanuel started attending Saturday activities and received counselling and health training. He also enrolled in the carpentry course and hopes one day to set up his own workshop to earn a living. I doubt that many of us reading this have first-hand experience of this kind of poverty. The experiences of many children in Iringa are so far removed from our comfortable Western lives that we may as well be on a different planet. And yet, as Christians, we are instructed to care for those less fortunate than ourselves.
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