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12 FRESHBROOK & GRANGE PARK
Couple to run orphanage in conflict zone

Despite warnings of impending civil war in the central African country of Burundi, and Ruth Wright
from Freshbrook will be leaving on 27 April to look after children in an orphanage and to run a nursery
school in the capital of Bujumbura. They need money for flights and living costs and are appealing for
help from readers.
Civil war broke out between be working under the umbrella of
Hutu and Tutsi peoples in neigh- African Revival Ministries, they
bouring Rwanda five years ago. do not have any financial backing
The TV pictures of the ensuing and have to pray that friends and
genocide shook the world. family will help them. They will
Over the last few months aid be in Burundi until December as
organisations report that there has house parents in an orphanage,
been rising tension between the then return in January to start a
same ethnic groups in Bu rundi and brand new orphanage.
there couldbe a repeat of the inter- _; At that point they will not only
tribal conflict, need living expenses, but they will
However Barrie and Ruth be- shipping over books, toys and
lieve they are doing the right thing. A games, and all the necessities of
"Having made three trips to =< .'° life including bedding, medical
Uganda and Rwanda with the tit they metChrissieChapmanwho supplies and pots and pans.
Swindon Family Church, on went to Burundi as a nurse to set With just six weeks to go, they
L LOOLSMARTJ church planting missions and up baby clinics in the early 1990s. do not have the money for the
teaching at a trade school, we feel She later started homes as children flights, but faith drives them on.
The smarter way to buy
drawn to working in Africa," said were orphaned from past tribal As they are moving into tempo-
Powertools & Accessories Barrie. "Not having our own chil- conflicts and as AIDS killed their rary accommodation, they can be
dren, we feel we can offer our- parents. contacted via The Link office and
SWINDON' selves to the orphanages. "We met Chrissie at a church messages will be passed on.
NEWEST "It is worrying, yes, were nerv- gathering last year. She knew noth- Barrie and Ruth initially need
ous about going, people say we ing about us, but she looked at us money whilst they establish them-
TOOL are crazy to sell everything, to pack and said, 'will you come and work selves in Burundi and later on will
up and go into a civil war situa- with us?' It's all developed from want donations of cash and mate-
SHOP tion. But we believe God will pro- that point. rials to set up the orphanage. They
tect us in something he wants us to "God had been speaking to us also need storage for collected
Comprehensive range of do." for some time. He was definitely items until the end of the year.
hand & power tools inc: Ruth explained that they had no asking us through Chrissie." To offer help of any kind, con-
intention of working in Africa un- Although Barrie and Ruth will tact The Link on 872282.
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