#1. BUILD THE FOUNDATION:
"You can do something. You can't do everything, but that's not an excuse to do nothing!" So far, people have given almost nothing for Vision Complex's ARC (Agape Restoration Community) project in Tanzania. ARS, small non-profit, has given over $10,000 to start laying the foundation for the ARC, but now they're almost broke. So ARS sent $100 for them to raise and sell chickens and eggs. We need your help! Can you donate some chicken feed? Please go to https://Agape-Restoration-Society.org/Vision-Complex and do what you can!
The volunteers at Vision Complex have made this huge pile of bricks to build the ARC. They have plenty of good clay soil to mix with water, place in forms, and bake them into bricks.
Here's some of the cement, reinforcing rods, and boards we've provided to use for the foundation. They will need more, but these are a start so you can see that they're pushing ahead with this project.
After starting to clear the land for the foundation, they realized that this pile of huge rocks was too big to break up by hand, so they moved the staked-out ground and cleared some more land.
THE PUMP IS WORKING! ARS provided Vision Complex with funds to buy the pump and two 1,000-liter storage tanks. Simon sent us these photos: here's the pump at the store where they bought it. The pump is now inside the well and brings the water up and into the storage tanks. There is a switch in each tank that turns on the pump when the water level is low, which prevents the pump from running constantly and burning out the motor.
You can see in this photo the small pipe that runs from the well to the top of a 1,000-liter tank that's sitting on a stand so that people can put a bucket under the faucet and turn it on to take the water where it's needed. This process provides the people at Vision Complex with enough water for drinking, washing, cooking, and watering their gardens.
to make bricks from clay that Vision Complex can sell to pay for medical care for the kids who have Sickle Cell Anemia and need life-saving blood transfusions every month. On September 1, Simon must take ten of these kids to the hospital for blood transfusions, which will cost $270. Would you 
The bore-hole well at Vision Complex was only 20 feet deep, so during the rainy seasons it contained enough water, but during the dry seasons there was very little water or the water completely dries up. Buying bottled water is expensive, and river water can carry typhoid so it's not safe. Simon wrote us earlier – "We need to dig our well 60 to 70 feet deeper so we can have water in the dry season. We need $300 by August 10th before it starts raining: it will be very difficult if we wait until September when the rainy season begins. We need to dig the well another 60 to 70 feet deep right away. Then we will have water year-round for the kids to drink, and for the kids to learn how to grow spinach, cabbage, tomatoes and other vegetables around our buildings so we don't have to buy as much food, for making bricks to sell, and for further construction work." UPDATE: The funds have been provided and the well has been dug, but now they need to install an electric pump to draw up the water, instead of using a rope to lower buckets 90 feet down and haul it up, one bucket at a time. Please read more about this and 
Simon also wrote – "This is our environment which promotes breeding of mosquitoes that carry malaria. We need 20 more mosquito nets at $6 each, so the total cost is $120: these nets will last for 2-3 years." These problems are connected because the Sickle Cell Anemia weakens the kids, making them more susceptible to Malaria. Agape Restoration Society helped provide $180 for the 30 mosquito nets needed. This was an urgent need that ARS met from its general fund, but now we need to replace those funds. There's also an ongoing need to replace more mosquito nets for the other 20 kids – just $6 each x 20 = $120 – as their old nets are wearing out. Please 
Here's Amos holding his mosquito net:
Here's Lucy holding her mosquito net:
Here's Geoffrey holding his mosquito net:
Here's Diana holding her mosquito net:
Here's Laurent holding his mosquito net:
Here's Jovin holding his mosquito net:
Here's Nyisawanga holding her mosquito net:
Here's Jonathan holding his mosquito net:
Here's Yohana holding his mosquito net:
Here's Consolata without her mosquito net:
Here's Briton without his mosquito net:
Here's John without his mosquito net:
Here's Shane without his mosquito net:
Here's Judith Joseph without her mosquito net:
Here's Hellen Peter with her mosquito net:
Here's Patricia Fredrick with her mosquito net:
Here's Joel Paul. without his mosquito net:
Here's Ibrahim Peter with his mosquito net:
Here's Caroline Kusaga with her mosquito net:
Here's Gift with her mosquito net:
Thanks for visiting and taking a look at these kids' photos! Many are HIV/AIDS orphans, and kids with Sickle Cell Anemia who need blood transfusions every month. Thanks again for your support!