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Putting Families First

Family trips are an awesome opportunity for parents, children, relatives and more to join together to serve those less fortunate, both domestic and abroad. Adventures is one of only a handful of organizations that offer family trips, and we solidly…

Serve Swaziland

The beautiful people of Swaziland has been hurt and tarnished thoughout the many years of its existance. The people are a beautiful people. They are thirsty for a filling and the satifying fruit of Christs spirit. This is a people…

Desperation to Hope

Swaziland: home of the world’s highest known HIV/AIDS prevalence rate. Swaziland: where in 2009 there were estimated about 180,000 people living with HIV Swaziland: with an estimated 7,000 deaths per year due to HIV Swaziland: a country with one of…

A Light In the Dark

Some time late in the night, two of the Real Life leaders were talking in the kitchen. They were a bit startled when out of the dark, a face appeared in the glass window. When they opened it, there was…

Giving Up Your Children

When I walked into the room, Pastor Gift was talking with a woman named Busisiwe. I had seen her down at the Nsoko Center an hour or so earlier, but she didn’t speak enough English to explain why she was…

Mother at Fourteen

What is your fourteen-year-old doing? No, I’m not on an anti-drug campaign, but I ask that question in light of how our fourteen-year-old friend, Abigail, spent her afternoon. The uncle that raped her is currently in jail for the offense,…

If Ears Could Hear

Welile is a single mother probably in her mid-twenties. As a believer for less than a year, her faith already far exceeds many others. Her five-year-old son, Siphiwo, was born deaf and mute. After a surgery at eighteen months to…

Sexual Abuse in Swaziland

SWAZILAND: Every third woman sexually abused as a child, says report Photo: IRIN An alarming number of girls in Swaziland have been abused MBABANE, 9 April 2008 (IRIN) – One in three Swazi women has suffered some form of sexual…