On Tuesday we visited the Matero Community Resource Center. Matero is one of our 19 CRCs all over Lusaka.
Greer talked all about how the CRCs have become a very strategic point in our ministry. It provides a safe place for a kid to come at anytime of the day. Members of our Zambian staff live at each CRC so they have someone at the CRC and walk right out their door into the communities where the children live.
In 2009, we decided that we could build bunk beds for each CRC and children in great need could live with us. Often we come across children who need to be rescued immediately or they will likely not survive. We have more than 60 kids who live in CRCs around Lusaka.
Gloria lives at the Matero CRC. Her life has been radically changed since moving into the CRC. Last year she was near death when she came to Camp LIFE, but getting three meals a day at the CRC has drastically improved her health.