In August 2008 Johan Evenblij and Adri Tijman visited Mushozi Village in the extreme North-Western area of Tanzania, bordering Uganda. Our aim was to find out what we could do to soften the needs of orphans and HIV/AIDS victims in that village. Imagine: 4200 people are living there, 675 out of them are orphans! There is only one orphanage in the wide surroundings, giving shelter to fifteen children. There is no regular food supply; sometimes there is nothing at all. Then board members from the orphanage go door to door to tell the villagers the orphans have no food. Out of their poverty the villagers give a handful of rice, casave or yam. Oh, yes, they eat chicken . . . twice a year, at Christmas and Easter! Cleopa's family and the children are under roof in two huts, made of bamboo, straw and mud. See the living conditions yourself!

This photo album is meant to give you an impression of Hoenderloo, the surrounding woods and our home in the snow.

In this hilly and isolated region - may be the size of 2 - 3x The Netherlands - we support pastors in 2 Remote Areas: Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. In AP we support 23 pastors, and are building churches for all of them. 9 churches have been completed by now, and we are working on the rest. In Orissa it is more or less the same: we will build 25 churches over there, and we will start building in 2008.

Indravati Colony is a leprosy camp in Nabarangpur, Orissa, India. We take care of all the 53 lepers, living in that town of 30.000 inhabitants. Until now the lepers are spread over two camps, but - depending on government approval - in 2008 we will extend Indravati Colony with new houses, and the other camp - called leprosy hospital - will be integrated.

TMF Children's home is located in Kannurupalem, Andhra Pradesh, India. There are 40 home children for whom we take care of, aged 5 - 14 years. We run private schools for our home children and te village children (nursery up to high school), and offer - next to Telugu - Hindi and English from class one onwards. Our school is the only one in 25 km periphery with Government recognition. We have 140 students in total. Furthermore, we run a sewing school (11 machines), provide regularly milk to 130 undernourished children, pay small pensions to widows and widowers and provide food twice a month for the ultimate poor.

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