Relief Aid

     Relief is the alleviation of an immediate need in a given community. The need for relief depends on the severity of the crisis affecting a community. AfricaHope has been very involved in relief work, particularly in famine relief. Our program and staff have fed thousands of people during severe famines in Kenya, Malawi, and Zimbabwe.

     While community development is focused on the long-term removal of a cause of crisis, relief is the immediate help. AfricaHope seeks to do relief work in a way that encourages and facilitates community development. In the midst of a relief effort and immediately following it are the best times to help communities prepare for the next drought or famine. Other types of crises cause communities to look at how they can be a better community altogether.

     Our relief work comes out of our desire as a Christian organization to “do to others what you would have them do to you” (Matthew 7:12) and to be obedient to Isaiah 58:10, “If you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.”