Blantyre North Relief Project

From only five orphans in 1985 to 700 in 2005 (in the ’90s there was an explosion of orphans” due to the AIDS epidemic in Africa).

The Sindima family has been supporting orphans in many ways: food, clothing, blankets, shelter (building brick homes), school uniforms and materials, tuition and fees for high school, vocational training, and college.

Sindima Memorial Institute of
Arts and Technology

Now our family is building a school for 2,500 students to train in various skills, careers, and professions: accounting, architecture, business management, computer system technology, engineering, graphics, nursing, medicine, automotive technology,woodwork technology, among other programs.

They work throughout the local communities and the Presbytery to elicited the support for the projects.

Read more about this project, Harvey and his wife, Gertrude.


Blantyre North Relief Project Information

Where is Malawi?

BNRP / Sindima Memorial Institute of Arts and Technology Brochures:
Overview
Detailed Version
Missions: Hard at Work and Working

Rev. Dr. Harvey J. Sindima
Hamilton, NY — Malawi, Africa
Thank you in advance for supporting my family's efforts to make a difference in the life of orphans: to give them joy, hope, security so that they can smile.
The smile of a child is priceless.

Now, may the One "by the power at work within us is able to accomplish far more than we all can ask or imagine" bless you exceedingly now and in the New Year, and to God "be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations for ever and ever. Amen" (Ephesians 3:20).
Book proceeds will directly benefit the orphans through the Blantyre North Relief Project.

Released February, 2008
Reclaiming Christianity in the 21st Century:
Building a Spiritual Powerhouse

About the Book

Dr. Sindima makes a detailed analyses of the causes of the current status of Christianity: declining membership, dying churches, biblical and theological illiteracy, poor Christian education, weak faith and commitment, non-biblical centred preaching, professionalisation of the clergy, ineffective leadership, secularisation and privatisation of religion. Dr. Sindima explores and examines the root causes of these problems in the twentieth century and beyond. To address these problems, Dr. Sindima develops biblical principles for a dynamic and vital faith that will reclaim Christianity from marginalisation and the slow death of churches. Drawing from the book of Acts, Dr. Sindima provides a model for churches to move beyond maintainship. “Anything that is stable,” he writes, “is not growing, therefore dying a slow death. The law of life is growth” (p. 27).

Dr. Sindima discusses extensively faith development and leadership. “There cannot be a dynamic church without a dynamic preacher and a dynamic lay leadership”, maintains Dr. Sindima (p. 7). In this book leaders will examine their leadership style as they reflect on the Moses model and Jesus leadership style.

This is a must read book for every Christian who cares about the future of Christianity!

“This book is for everyone seeking to grow in faith, or to develop a dynamic and vital church, a spiritual powerhouse. This book is for lay people and clergy who are serious about the future of Christianity. As a teacher and a scholar I have also included a lot of material for the life of the mind so that students and scholars will find the book intellectually stimulating and faith-inspiring”, from the introduction.
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The book is available for $15.00 Order Form
Progress Updates

A New Feeding Centre: (select picture above to enlarge)

November last year, I set out to visit our orphans village by village, from home to home. I was also bringing them food and clothing too. While I was on this visit, I was deeply sadden to find children in the area very thin because lack of food. Most of those children looked like they would not make it; that they would die if they did not get food within a short time. These were not our orphans, but children of young mothers, most of them widows, or of very poor parents. I was so disturbed by what I saw that I came back to my home hoping to talk to my brother to see what we could do. When he called, I told what I had seen and how sad I was. I told him that we needed to do something right away, if we didn’t want to be ashamed before God. I told him that it was a priority for us. Of course, his concern was money, given the many other things we are doing. We both felt we did not have a choice, but to engage in this work. Within days we were ready to begin saving lives. We started with 100 children ages 1–5, serving breakfast around 9:00 and lunch around 2:00. Within one month, only 2 children were borderline, but every child weighed within normal range.

Distribution of Mosquito Nets for Malaria Prevention: (select picture above to enlarge)

The death of a child from malaria, prompted BNRP to acquire and distribute mosquito nets to all of the area children. Blankets were also distributed at this time to children in need.

School Construction: (select picture above to enlarge)

The Sindima Memorial Institute of Arts and Technology academic buildings are currently under constructions. The workers are now plastering the inside rooms.

Safe Water / Well Project: (select picture above to enlarge)

Since February 2008, BNRP had three wells sunk in three different villages. These wells have relieved women and girls from walking more than a mile each way to fetch water from one of the wells BNRP sank a few years ago. Before the new wells, women and girls walked the long distance with five to six-gallon buckets on their heads, several times a day for cooking, cleaning/washing, and bathing. The women would start fetching water as early 5 a.m. and some even earlier. This safe water project was made possible by funds from the Patnership Committee of Cayuga-Syracuse Presbytery, New York, working together with the Partnership Committee of the Pyongyang Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church of South Korea. A fourth well will be sunk in April 2008 by BNRP alone. BNRP will continue sinking wells as is able, or as donors are found. Contibute to the BNRP safe water project to help the women of Malawi from walking long distance for water.

Annual Corn & Fertilezer Distribution: (select picture above to enlarge)

Each year BNRP distributes corn seed and fertilizer to over 200 families (mostly orphans and elderly). It is a tradition that children must have their small plot of land, or a garden to learn how to farm. While BNRP gives out food to orphans, it gives them seed and fertilizer for them to learn the importance of farming.
About: Rev. Dr. Harvey J. Sindima
Rev. Dr. Sindima is a graduate of Church of Central Africa Presbyterian College, New College, Faculty of Divinity, Edinburgh University, Interdenominational Theological Center, and Princeton Theological Seminary.

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