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Project Managers, Robert and Kay Robb |
Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
Missionary Student Exchange Program
Project Managers: Robert and Kay Robb
Since 1995, Robert and Kay Robb, long-time
missionaries to Brazil, have dedicated their time to the
Missionary Student Exchange Program, and have received over
30 young people of different nationalities from ages 12-26,
with a staff ranging from two to six adults. MSEP activities
include:
- collecting and distributing basic
needs to the poor
- a singing group that performs for various community
projects
- visiting residents of institutions for the elderly
and orphanages
- visiting the elderly
- instruction in pre-kindergarten through 2nd grade
teaching
- maintenance and improvement of the property used
as their training center
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We continue to increase the number of Cesta Basicas (food
packages) that we distribute to the poor each month. |
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Another project was visiting Sao Lazaro, a home for the
elderly. Here four of our boys spent approximately 64 man
hours helping to replace the leaky roof on their home before
the seasonal rains began. |
Our
"Mãos de Amor" program
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We continue to increase the number of Cesta Basicas (food packages)
that we distribute to the poor each month.
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Our "Mãos de Amor" food distribution program gets
our local sponsors personally involved in their community, while also
feeding the poor. Our"Cesta Basica" packages include all the
basic food items an average family needs for a month, each weighing
33 lbs. We invite sponsors to go along with us to distribute the food,
so they see firsthand the effect of their donations.
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We currently distribute 1 ½ tons of food, in
the form of Cesta Basicas, to orphanages and institutions assisted
by the Vida Jovem Project.
We have chosen to help mainly orphanages, as most
are understaffed and poorly supplied. Most of the 600 children
in the 9 facilities that we help would otherwise not even receive
a minimum normal diet required for physical and emotional growth,
development, and well-being.
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Visiting
Orphanages
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Through our music we have been received by young and old, rich
and poor, including these orphans in an orphanage that we regularly
visit.
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We reach out to these kids through music, skits, stories, videos
and games, to transmit to the children good manners, hygiene,
morals and co-operative behavior.
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Performing at an orphanage where we dressed as clowns, and formed
balloons into animal shapes for each child.
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Jonathan Salva is a professional balloon sculpturist who has taught
several of the younger missionaries his talent.
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Fun and laughter is often in short supply at these orphanages.
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Not to mention enough loving arms to go around each child.
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Training
Center improvements
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David and Peter helping to build a new home for the elderly
in Salvador, Bahia in the north of Brazil.
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The wheelbarrows were donated by a local hardware store
and one of our sponsors.
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Another project was visiting Sao Lazaro, a home for the
elderly. Here four of our boys spent approximately 64 man
hours helping to replace the leaky roof on their home before
the seasonal rains began.
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Our 12-year-old son visiting a man who generously donated
the wood needed to make benches for the KM
21 project (also an FCF umbrella project). The wood
was delivered to our home where we were able to make over
20 benches for the children and adults who attend the activities
and weekly Bible studies. Several young men were able to
participate in a carpentry class as well.
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Clowning Around for Charity
We got together a selection of teens and adults
from our weekly Bible study groups who all dressed as clowns and
other characters to hold an event at the orphanage for children
with cancer (NACCI - Nucleo de Apoio ao Combate de Cancer Infantil,
an institution that we regularly help with Cesta Basicas. Each
of these teens and adults brought an assortment of toys, board
games, and other items to give to the children. We clowns played
games and danced with the kids, our Christmas show troupe also
put on a show for them, complete with singing, dancing, and all.
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