Covenant Child Development Centers
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Protecting children at risk through education, nutrition, and safe places • Preventing trafficking, child labor, and abuse • Now Helping over 400 families
Charan Teja and his sister Priyanka come from the Yanadula community, which is considered as low social class or untouchable in India. Bharanthi came to us for help and we took Charan and Priyanka into CCDC and admitted them into a good private English school. Over the last three years, God has shown grace to Charan and Priyanka as they travel 8 km by school bus traveling every day to reach their school. Bharathi is very happy that her children are going to school, but worries about her husband.
A Father who could turn an ordinary day into a day that would change not only her life, but save the life of another. Jayamma’s day must have started out like any other ordinary day. That early morning, Jayamma found a 17 day old innocent baby boy laying on a heap of discarded rubbish. Little did she know that while raising her new found baby boy, another precious little girl miles away was being neglected due to dying parents.
It has been a great joy for me to be part of the transformative work happening in rural Andhra Pradesh. When I stop and think about what CCDC is doing and the generational impact on that it will have on poverty, trafficking, child labor, and just the well being of the people involved, it overwhelms me! For those that don’t know me or my story, I want to share a little about how I got here and why I am working with CCDC. I would much prefer being behind the camera, but this is a small step in sharing the story of CCDC through sharing how it is woven with my story.
When you started school, did your parents have to choose between a free school with no building, books, or teachers or a well-run private school that could give you a chance at life, but cost more than their monthly wages to attend? In rural Indian villages, government-run schools are available to all, with the hope that most will reach literacy before leaving school for good to go help the family, usually about age eight or nine. Covenant Child Development Centers (CCDC) provides educational assistance, a meal, emotional support and guidance to 25 select families in a village. This ministry is run through the local village church and is meant to lift up the village in the long-term future.