In January 2024, the Greater Princeton & Far Beyond Branch of AYLUS (GPA) continued its annual international volunteering project. GPA members collected hundreds of gently used sporting shoes for Senegal youth, as well as planning an Africa Cries Out medical service team to provide local people much needed healthcare services in March.
AfricaCriesOut was birthed through the Missions Program of the Assembly of God World Vision Ministries (AGWV), in conjunction with Dr. Jun Xu and other key volunteers to help the people of Senegal and Gineah Bissau by providing education, healthcare, and nutrition.
Africa Cries Out seeks to support the health and welfare of West Africans by increasing local people’s access to health care and education in highly impoverished areas.
At the heart of our mission, we want to provide children in the West African villages of Senegal and Guinea Bissau the opportunities that every child deserves, a good quality of life and an opportunity to be educated. We want to provide teenagers and adults in those villages the opportunities to keep good health and learn a skill that can sustain their lives.
Currently, we have successfully funded three elementary schools, with a fourth under construction. By providing education in math, reading and writing, we hope to give many children a different future. We are also building a technical school. By providing technical skills in fields of agriculture, construction and healthcare, we hope to let individual students be able to sustain themselves and their families from the education.
Our main goal is to give better lives to these children and young adults. We sincerely hope that with your help, these children can break the cycle of hunger, illness, and even homelessness. Our plea is that you will join us in this battle by donation, adoption and sharing that will give them a better tomorrow.
GPA members promoted the sneakers drive at schools so more sneakers could be donated to Africa, specifically, Senegal. A group of Africa Cries Out medical service volunteers will have the sneakers distributed among African youth in need, while providing the people with the needed healthcare services.
GPA Volunteers: Andrew Huan (1/20, 1 hr), Claire Hua (1/20, 1 hr), Chloe Hua (1/20, 1 hr), Sophia Yu (1/21, 1 hr), Sara Yu (1/21, 1 hr), Cindy Chen (1/21, 1 hr), Erick Yan (1/21, 1 hr), Michael Zhao (1/21, 1 hr), Ethan Jiang (1/21, 1 hr), James Jiang (1/21, 1 hr), Kathie Wang (1/21, 1 hr), Jeffrey Huang (1/21, 1 hr), Steven Li (1/21, 2 hrs)
