About: Heart for Africa
“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress ...” James 1:27
Heart for Africa
Heart for Africa is a Christian humanitarian organization that serves in Swaziland, Malawi, and Kenya in Africa. Our HOPE teams work with children’s homes and organizations in these countries in each area of HOPE; Hunger, Orphans, Poverty, and Education. We work alongside our African partners to better support them and also the orphan-headed households in surrounding communities. We help them plant backyard gardens as well as community gardens. We bring clothing and shoes. We provide cows and water catchment containers. We develop small business opportunities for the struggling widows as well as help to provide AIDS education and basic academic education.
Hawaii’s Heart for Africa. Over 75 people from Hawaii have traveled to Swaziland, Malawi, or Kenya with Heart for Africa since 2005. They have planted close to 40,000 backyard, schoolyard, and orphanage gardens. Hawaii’s heart for Africa beats strong. It’s Aloha is felt literally halfway around the world as we seek to serve the orphaned child and give each one hope.
MidWeek Columnist and Oahu resident, Susan Page, is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of Heart for Africa and has written extensively about the AIDS crisis in sub-Saharan Africa in her columns. Find her commentaries and more information at pagecoffeeafrica.blogspot.com