Day 23 - Welcome to Eswatini
Eswatini is one of eight countries that Hands at Work is serving in across Africa. Eswatini has a population of 1,508,720 people, with 30% of the population living in extreme poverty. Ranking 142 out of 187 on the Human Development Index, there are 5,600 children living with HIV/AIDS and 70,000 children who have been orphaned because of this life-threatening illness. – Sources: UNAID, UNDP, World Poverty Clock
As we start the week, please join us in praying for the country of Eswatini:
• “Please pray in regards unemployment. There are many stories where the husband went to South Africa to look for odd jobs but then never come back home. And now the grandmother or the wife has to get odd jobs, which is rare and if they do, it’s not enough to generate income for the family. We find a lot of under-fives children who are left behind with grandmothers because their mothers went to South Africa to look for a way but they don’t come back.
• Please pray in regards to school fees, which are very high in Eswatini. Some of our youth, they end up not finishing high school and then they go and work in the farms, next to the border of Mozambique.” – Pinky, Regional Support Team Leader
To learn more about Eswatini, the communities that we serve and about our Service Centres (local Hands at Work teams), please visit: https://www.handsatwork.org/eswatini-links