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African Food to Feed African Children

Feeding African Children with African Food We are excited about our new program Feeding African Children with African Food! We receive shipping containers each year from Meals from the Heartland and Convoy of Hope. The containers are sent to 11 feeding hubs across South Africa, Eswatini, and Lesotho. These hubs then distribute the meals to feeding centers in their area….

Boledia Creche Water and Sanitation

Boledia Creche Water and Sanitation Today’s Mission Moment comes to us from Salome. Boledia Creche has a water well sponsored by HyVee and the One Step Water Program. Blessman International also built an EnviroLoo waterless toilet for the daycare. Fresh vegetables from the vegetable garden form part of the children’s daily meals, because the daycare does not need to buy…

Kutulano Day Care Water and Sanitation

Kutulano Day Care Water and Sanitation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsLlTmoEXMs Ma’am Tinny from Kutulano Day Care thanks Blessman International for the well and Enviro Loo toilets. The children from this Daycare love to sing and dance! Tinny also ensures that the children are looked after on weekends and even takes the little ones to church on Sundays. The well has allowed the daycare…

Jennifer Mission Moment

Jennifer’s Mission Moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eItqGqtugY Today’s Mission Moment comes to us from Jennifer. The children at the daycares and Del Cramer Children’s Campus enjoyed playing and spending time with Jennifer! The community optical outreach helped many of the elderly get glasses, something that we take for granted in the United States.

April 2023 – Feeding Children

April 2023 – Feeding Children We are preparing to head back to the States after a productive three-month season here in South Africa.  This month I would like to focus on our child feeding program.  We first started feeding children 13 years ago with a generous grant from one our ministry partners.  The grant was $250,000, and it made it…

Mission Moment Sherwin

Mission Moment Sherwin Today’s Mission Moment comes to us from Sherwin. He spent a few weeks with us in South Africa, helping Johanney at our Mountain View Farm and also with the mission teams. Sherwin was a great help with the mission teams and got involved with each outreach. He was also a great help to Johanney at Mountain View…

Mission Moment – Dr Steven

Mission Moment – Dr Steven Today’s Mission Moment comes to us from Dr. Steven. The highlight for him on his mission trip to South Africa was, as he put it, “giving away stuff”. He enjoyed the community’s optical outreach, fitting glasses for the older members of the village. He also was a great help with the shoe outreach, he helped…

Johanney Thanks HyLine and Flying Dutchman

Johanney Thanks HyLine and Flying Dutchman Johanney the Mountain View Farm manager and his team moved the chickens to their new home at Del Cramer Children’s Campus. This will form part of a new project at Blessman International called An Egg a Day. We moved 350 laying hens donated by HyLine Poultry company to Del Cramer to begin our feasibility…

Molly’s Mission Moment

Molly’s Mission Moment Today’s Mission Moment comes to us from Molly! Molly shares the highs and lows from her week in South Africa. A high for Molly was an optical outreach we did in the community with older members of the village. A low for Molly was hearing the stories of the babies at the Ngwane Babyhouse. The children at…