REF Community Uplifting Program (REFCUP)

Friday, April 6, 2012

PROCLAIMS CHRIST!

Yes, Christ nailed to the cross.

That is never truer than in the first week of this month, the week we call Holy Week, coming to its climax on Good Friday.

It is a climax which reveals the tragic flaw in humanity, but then is answered by invincible loving power of God on the third day.

Jesus is raised to life, the life that was His before He took human form.

And His being raised to that life opens the opportunity for humanity, whose nature He assumed in fullest measure, also to be raised into life with Him and the Heavenly Father.

Many of us can hardly bear now to listen to the news.

Day by day there are fresh miseries, disasters, and tragedies.

The day I write this article I am asking myself “how much longer must the Christian people of Pakistan suffered and suffering?”, “must the children of Renaissance Education Foundation (REF) starvation by the thousand?” (Starvation) Hunger mean not only in the meaning of foodless, there are so many other kind of Hungers indeed too “must those who are unemployed, those who depend on benefit allowances, those who can’t afford the deposit for a house for their new family, students who dependent on their parents for their educational needs, the Children who are fatherless (Orphans) looking forward to the Love of their father and all needs of for their helpless life, the Students who will complete their College, University course needs jobs to start their new life.

He invited His readers to assess themselves. “Few of you are men of wisdom; few are powerful or highly born.”

The purpose of Lent has been to make room, in our time, our thoughts, our relationships, our behavior, among our disappointments, fears, temptations, concerns for the world around us and loves for those dear to us, for Jesus, the living Jesus, to make us, each one, even more a place of his living in dwelling.

So shall our repentance for the world which is our earthly home be more profound.

And so at Easter all our grateful thankfulness for Jesus unfailing abiding in our hearts may be a fountain of irrepressible joy.

Let’s pray for all these who needs our attention and love for their better life as we all need the supernatural love and attention of our raised Jesus Christ and celebrate upcoming Easter with Renaissance education Foundation (REF)

Christ is raised, He is raised indeed. Alleluia. Happy Easter to all of you Friends, well-wishers, Supports, Donors and all those who continued praying for REF and its community.Be blessed with www.reduf.org

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Community Uplifting Through Education (CUTE)

LAHORE: Meet Josephine, a 34-year-old divorced mother of two. She runs an orphanage outside Lahore, where she gives shelter to children and has become a savior to those bonded by labour. “I visit brick kiln factories, where single parents and the elders of orphans make these little ones work to pay the debt they have taken,” says Josephine Her task is not an easy one, as she has to convince the guardians that they are better off with her. “I am currently pursuing a mother of five to give her children to me because her husband died and now she has to work day and night along with her children to pay his debt.” Brick kiln owners are the main hurdle and have threatened her. “They say if I can pay their loan, I can take the children, otherwise they will work till the loan is paid.” In Pakistan, although illegal, slavery in brick kiln factories is common knowledge and it originates from a vicious circle of debt which sucks in labourers. Josephine has surveyed these factories for a year and has been able to convince almost 20 families to give their children to her. She only helps the Christian minority currently because she feels they are more marginalised. “Most of the workers at these places are of Christian faith, and that is why I contact the local pastor of the area and take him along too, to get easy access.” Trained to be a nun but not allowed by her parents to leave the country, Josephine now uses what she has learnt to mother the orphans. She has rented an upper portion of a house, 20 kilometers outside Lahore, for Rs5, 000 per month, where she lives with her own two offspring plus another 10 boys and 7 girls. “I do not have any funding source. I teach at a local private school, and with whatever money I get, I try to give these children their lives back.” Along with this, she receives help from her brothers and the school principle where she is employed, but things are still hard. “Thankfully the principle has acknowledged my efforts, and has waived off fee for these children.” Surprisingly, ever since she started the orphanage, she has been asked by a number of parents to take their children away. “People are so poor in these villages that they want to get rid of the children even they are not in debt.” But she rejects them saying that she doesn’t want those who are orphans to feel different while living with such children who have parents. The children in Josephine’s care were not allowed to go to school due to their slavery status, Now they have learnt how to read and write. Published in The Express Tribune, January 23rd, 2012.