Today we had quite a hectic programme: we visited the remaining projects of the Good News Christian Education Mission (http://www.quartersforcalcutta.com/gncem.php) and I have to say what I saw overwhelmed me. In yesterday’s blog I responded to the question ‘is it any different to what I have experienced in Senegal’ and responded ‘No!’ I have to change my opinion as what I saw today was THE model of mission for youth and children and something I believe anyone involved in mission - that is anyone involved in the work of Christ - could and should learn from.
What makes it so different is that the project has evolved to support the needs of the entire spectrum of street children. So you start with babies at the day care centre, to which street mothers send their babies and toddlers to be washed, fed their clothes laundered and played with. You then go on to the local day schools like the one we visited yesterday, where they will be washed, fed, their clothes laundered and educated both in school smarts but also in the gospel. Alternatively - for children with only one parent - the child will go to a boarding school on the outskirts of the city where they will receive the best of care, the best of education, and the gospel up to the age of 16 and by this they will be given an amazing chance in life.
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