Africa
Where Kershaw’s Challenge first began.
Arise africa
Our 2025 Project with Arise Africa is the completion of the McDonald Brown School + support the feeding program.
Our friendship with Arise Africa pre-dates Kershaw’s Challenge. Arise Africa’s mission is to serve the children of Zambia who are suffering from economic, physical and spiritual poverty. We achieve this through a Christ-centered approach involving full-time care, education, discipleship, and feeding programs. In 2025, Kershaw’s Challenge will see the completion of the McDonald Brown School! This includes four more classrooms and walkways. Additionally, KC will support the feeding program providing an additional meal for 350 kids each day.
Action in africa
Our 2025 Project with Action in Africa is to sponsor the Nutrition Program.
AIA functions out of a Community Center, where they operate all of their programs, including educational services, after school programs, secondary and university scholarship programs and a women-to-women program. 2025 funds will go towards sponsoring the Nutrition Program including serving breakfast to 1,160 students 5 days a week, installing new stoves at 5 partner schools, and a hot meal for over 150 students every afternoon. This will also provide breakfast for over 50 mothers in the women to women support group, and daily lunch for 25 full time employees. Additionally, it will provide clean water for the entire community.
BEB
Our 2025 project is to help with the expansion of Implementation of the Children First Software in Zambia.
It has been an honor to partner with Both Ends Believing (BEB) for multiple seasons! BEB works to radically fix and change the global child welfare system – working in Africa and Latin America to identify and profile every child living in institutions and orphanages. The Children First Software creates profiles for children living in institutions. We can’t help these children if we don’t know who they are -- this is a massive component in putting them back with a family.
International Justice Mission
Our 2025 project with IJM is to continue to fund rescue missions in Ghana.
International Justice Mission is a global organization that protects people in poverty from violence. They partner with local authorities in 33 programs offices in 19 countries to combat trafficking and slavery, violence against women and children and police abuse of power. In 2025, KC will provide for continued work of rescuing children trapped in forced labor on Lake Volta.