The following is an update from Living Hope Community Centre near Cape Town, South Africa, which is a facility Mocha Club helps support for those infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS. Living Hope hosted more than a dozen Christmas parties in December, with each event reflecting the unique personality of the community it honored. Guests… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: February 2009
In Africa, a little goes a long way, and it’s so easy to help. Just ask Jessica, who recently lead her church in a make change campaign. They printed out our “Spare Change to Make Change” labels, placed them on cups, and passed them out to the church to make collections. Throw in some information… Read more »
Here’s a story we wanted to share from Brad Phillips of Persecution Project, one of the organizations we’re partnered with in Sudan. Our MC Director and MC Sponsor Dave Barnes traveled to the village of War Lang, Sudan in December. One of the Greatest Gifts I’ve Ever Received… While we were in War Lang, a… Read more »
On November 19th, 2008, our team in Kibera, Kenya broke ground on our Job Creation project, the Emmanuel Vocational-Technical School. This is a unique school in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya which will provide job training to many youth in the area. 180 new high school students that may not be in school now… Read more »
Recently at the Mocha Club office in Nashville, TN, we welcomed a 7th grade class from the nearby Brentwood Academy who came to volunteer for the day. They did an awesome job helping stuff tshirt orders and other fun tasks! Here’s a poem that one of the students, Lexie Harvey, wrote after serving Africa with… Read more »