This afternoon, Feb 24, we went to visit PACT, a project of YWAM that serves abandoned women and orphaned children infected with HIV and AIDS. The stories were heartbreaking. Monica is a little girl that just arrived at the home. Her mother just died from HIV and there are no known relatives. An infected mother and her mentally disabled daughter (also infected, through sexual abuse by a relative) live at the facility. Altogether there are ten children and six women living in two homes like a large extended family.
Intended to be more of a home than an orphanage, Wilson and his wife Elizabeth are the guardians of the ten children (not including two boys of their own.) In India, only Hindu’s are allowed to adopt children, Christians are only allowed guardianship. Nonetheless, Wilson hopes to house many more children. They have property and just received a $25,000 grant to build the first floor of a new facility.
They also have an in-home ministry to those infected with HIV. With a current staff of 18, they have ministered to thousands of people, with over 1,500 people giving their lives to the Lord and over 200 families now attending churches. They have lost 20 women to the virus. Kids with the HIV virus can live 15-20 years with current treatments and fortunately none of the children cared from by Wilson and his team have died yet.
To run their operations in the black would only require $2,500 each month. They need another $25,000 to have enough funds to finish the new building.
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