Children's News
Pastor Bouya 22 September 2005
He was dressed impressively in traditional Tuareg clothes and told us of the problems children in his country are experiencing. He and his congregation are eating only boiled salt water thickened with a little flour and a little rice. He told us that sometimes families go without food for three days at a time. Our children were ‘spellbound’ by all he told us and many were concerned enough to want to help.
In an e-mail to us Pastor Bouya said:- “Thank you for love and generousity of each sisters, brothers, children in your beautiful country. Thank you for your compassion to my Touareg people in our Desert. Thank you again for your continued interest for our famine relief project in Timbuktu-Mali (West Africa). your sincerely in Christ. Your servant Pastor Bouya. The man on a Mission for water pump. Jesus said: “I am the bread of life he that comes to me will not get hungry and he that believes me will never get thirsty” John 6: 35”
Due to the generosity of Yorkshire folk he has reached his target of £6,000 to provide the community with a diesel water pump and fuel for a year to help them irrigate a plot of land and grow food for next year. Here are some photographs of the land they were given and the crops that they have grown so far, just click on the blue hyperlinks to see them.
