On November 25, 1984, 36 British recording artists gave freely their time, their love and their talent to record a song written by Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats and Midge Ure of Ultravox to raise money for the relief of famine in Ethiopia.

That breakthrough recording of Do They Know It's Christmas?, changed the face of charity in the world. Band Aid was followed in 1985 by We Are The World - a song written by Lionel Richie and Michael Jackson for the USA for Africa project.

Both Band Aid and USA for Africa were great successes mainly because people gave generously from what they had - time, money, skills and more which all resulted in many lives being saved.

Unfortunately, despite great efforts by Band Aid, USA for Africa and great philanthropists like Bill and Belinda Gates, we still have poor people among us. There have been many natural and man-made disasters across the world including the Rwanda Massacre, Hurricane Katrina, the Indonesian Tsunami, and the Rwandan killing fields among others. There is widespread economic chaos, political upheavals, terrorism, and bloodshed in many countries from from Kenya, through Iraq, to Burma and Pakistan. Together these have impoverished a lot of people and deprived them of basic human needs such as clothing, food, clean, safe drinking water and decent, adequate accommodation.

UK World Evangelism Trust (WET) - introduce to you some of the deprived people in our world. They are the street children of East Africa. Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but these children have no place to call their home...

...They beg for money, and scavenge through rubbish dumps for their daily needs.

They are the easy prey notorious gangs and drug dealers. Many of them are hooked on drugs;

Children under 10 years of age sniffing glue and other substances.

At UKWET, we are doing something about this. You can too.

Moved with compassion, UK World Evangelism Trust (UKWET), made a decision to help these children. We propose to build a hostel for the children in the city centres; first in Nairobi, Kenya and call it the BARAKA CHILDREN CENTRE. (Baraka is a Swahili word meaning Blessing.) At this hostel, we wish to rehabilitate these children, providing them with food, shelter, and care. We hope to be able to give them vocational training aimed at empowering them to work their way out of poverty.

As this first centre successfully grows, we will open centres in other countries like Uganda, Tanzania, Republic of Congo, and Malawi, covering East Africa.

Our Workers

Our dedicated workers meet lots of difficulties and even danger to their own lives as they work with these kids on the streets. When the children are under the influence of drugs, they have sometimes attacked our workers.

We are not put off because of the risk that comes with the job. We believe that the job of caring for the children in dire need is a task that must be done. We cannot do this job alone, this is why we need you. The word of God says that you will be blessed if you help people in need like these poor children; "Blessed is he that considers the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth:.." Psalm 41:1, 2.