Can you imagine this—$9.50 for a gallon of gasoline when your average income is under $2.00 per day? Actually, this is very real!

Real life that is, if you are living in Zambia, Africa. As a result, a good percentage of the population must walk everywhere they go! This was just one of the eye-opening things our WELS Humanitarian Aid Committee learned on our recent trip to Zambia and Malawi, Africa.

Our committee’s chairman, Rev. David Valleskey, stated that the purpose of the trip was threefold: 1) to evaluate how the WELS humanitarian efforts are working, 2) to determine what needs to change, and 3) to find new opportunities for utilizing humanitarian aid to build bridges for the gospel. He said “The committee is funded entirely by special gifts from WELS members, so we want these gifts to be used in the best possible way; we want people’s gifts to have an impact.”

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