The Christian Counselors Directory has been honored and privileged to assist many in finding Christian mental health professionals and benefitting from their services. Sometimes, we have been able to help those who access our website directly with mental health and spiritual issues. We often get inquiries from other organizations seeking to benefit from our exposure on the Internet. The following letter with accompanying photographs deeply arrested our concern. . . .
Dear Dr. Morris,

DAR ES SALAAM VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION was registered as a non-government organisation in TANZANIA, on 16, October, 2001.

Its aims:

  1. Improvement of the lives of people with mental illness by providing them with social services such as health and nutrution.
  2. Construction of a home {centre} for people with mental illness in order to ensure that they live in a healthy environment.
  3. To empower and enable them to live peacefully with their famillies and the public.
  4. To raise the consciousness of the public on how to live and serve people with mental illness.
  5. To defend the rights of people with mental illness.
We salute what you are doing for people in need especially people affected mentally. Success is a goal achieved only where co-operation thrives. In order to succeed in this project , Dar Es Salaam Voluntary Association has deemed it mandatory to introduce ourselves to you in order to achieve your recognition, blessing, and your support. It is our hope that your organisation with its commendable experience in public services, will do everything it can to help us. We are still young in many spheres. We need your support to accomplish our mission. Your support is greatly appreciated.

Please consider our request.

Yours Faithfully,

Joyce Bamwenda, Chairperson
DAR ES SALAAM VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION
Registration No. 11153
Box 42981 Dar Es Salaam
Tanzania, East Africa

We have indeed given Ms. Bamwenda's request our serious consideration. We have decided to do everything we can to advertise, promote and support the fine work Ms. Bamwenda and her staff are doing in Dar Es Salaam. We hope you will, too.

-- Paul D. Morris, M.Div., Ph.D.

DAR ES SALAAM VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION
Joyce Bamwenda, Chairperson



MS. JOYCE BAMWENDA
Chairperson

DAR ES SALAAM VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION







We are pleased to have the opportunity to serve the venerable people who are ignored by our government and neglected by our society -- BUT loved by GOD and supported by his people in the United States and around the world. Please, your support is greatly appreciated. -- Joyce

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AS YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE . . . Ms. Bamwenda and her staff have been busy making a difference where they live. I believe I have been prompted by the Lord to do everything I can to help this organization -- from this day forward.

Jesus taught us that, "Inasmuch as you have done it unto these, the least of my brothers, you have done it unto me." These mentally challenged friends are not "the least" in terms of their worth to God. One glance at Golgotha's Cross should tell us that. But in terms of their need? In term of their illness? Well, that's another story.

Can you help? Can you financially and prayerfully help DAR ES SALAAM VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION do God's work? Please give this your serious and prayerful consideration. These compassionate brothers and sisters, these servants of Jesus Christ are doing a magnificent thing, and they need our help. If you can help, you will be a part of it! May God speak to your heart to respond.

If you would like to assist in the support of Ms. Bamwenda and the DAR ES SALAAM VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION, you are invited to make a contribution. A system is set up so that you may donate through PayPal. The funds will come to me. I will, in turn, forward them to Ms. Bamwenda and the Voluntary Association. As you can see, this places me in a temporary position of fiduciary trust for which I must be responsible to both the contributor and the recipient of funds. Obviously, I do not expect nor will I accept any accommodation for this service.

The Christian Counselors Directory is in the process of creating a non-profit, charitable organization, (501) 3c, to which donors may address their funds. That entity has not, at this writing, been set up. When it is, you can be sure that it will be prominent.

One final word. The DAR ES SALAAM VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATION is a small, but effective, ministry in this city of Tanzania. However, should many donors arise from this exposure, the organization will grow resulting in ministry to hundreds and possibly thousands of mentally ill in that country. I want to be a part of that. I hope you will, too.



Cordially,

Paul D. Morris, Ph.D.
Christian Counselors Directory


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