4. •Population 1 million
• Challenge Ministries
•Average Age 18
• Challenge
Ministries
•Pop Growth Rate -0.41%
•Life Expectancy 32
•Highest AIDS Rate in the world 43%
•Living Below Poverty Line 70%
• This nation will cease to exist by 2050
Swaziland Statistics
5. Swaziland: HIV Schools hardest Swaziland: A
patients ‘eat hit by Swazi debt kingdom in crisis
dung to make crisis
drugs work’
“The UN Global Many schools forced A generation of
Fund has no to close due to orphans - 15 year
more money” teachers not paid. olds are responsible
for homes.
6. Education and Life Skills Medical Care
The Children’s Homes Bulembu’s Transformation
Good afternoon, Bulembu and Challenge Ministries Swaziland have a unique relationship that is producing hope for a nation and life for a town called Bulembu …
... Our Vision is to restore Bulembu, a derelict mining town, into a vibrant self-sustaining community by the year 2020 and to nurture a new generation of leaders. Take a look at this short clip that communicates the desperate situation facing the Swazi people but the hope that Bulembu offers ...
Swaziland is faced with a dreadful plight – a child population with no hope, no parental care and living on less than a dollar a day …
... Even local and international press report this as a desperate situation – a nation in crisis with no effective leadership and the HIV/AIDS pandemic destroying the social and commercial heart of the nation ...
… But there is hope – through the community care that Challenge Ministries is delivering: from the education of 500 young people; to the unique model of a town’s rehabilitation, through our self-sustainable business programmes in Bulembu – a story of successful transformation is emerging ...
… Community care comes at a price. It costs to take a school from dereliction where cows once lived to a vibrant place of education! …
… in Bulembu, we are financing Community care, by establishing sustainable community enterprise, successfully transforming the Bulembu community …
… The plan is to achieve sustainability through a balanced programme of growth in community care…
... A Sustainable environment can support more orphaned and vulnerable children ...
... Bulembu by 2020 can sustain 1000 children through this kind of transformation and impact the nation of Swaziland ...
Currently the income from our business program is below our operating costs. So as a temporary measure to supplement income, to ease the burden on the businesses and help us achieve our goal of sustainability by 2020, we are also using a child sponsorship programme …
Eventually our 5 established and successful businesses will finance the community care. Currently Timber …
... Through clearing, developing and harvesting plantation trees produces a solid - £231,000 ...
A dairy of 80 cows …
... being milked in what was the old Golf Clubhouse, provides milk to our 350 children and generates a cool £16,000 ...
… our honey production …
... Building hives on cleared land provides a sweet £14,000 ...
… the Bulembu Country Lodge and Conference Centre …
... we transformed, with the help of the architect Murray Bell of TBN, into a Conference and Hospitality Training Centre that opened last year. 50 students have already graduated, with 70% now in full-time employment in leading Swazi hotels – delivering £30,000 ...
… our bakery …
... Rising from ashes of the old butchery providing a variety of goods, one of which is a tasty £4000 ...
… and finally, our water business …
... Quenching the thirst of a growing cliental and running at a fresh £54,000 ....
… This unique Bulembu story is happening; our community enterprise is covering almost 50% of our community care needs and also has a hidden social value, in training and job creation providing an income for over 500 Swazi families – re-birth has begun – this is transformation in action …
... I hope you have enjoyed the Bulembu story, please visit me on the stand, there are some exciting opportunities, thank you.
