January 30th, 2008
I have a very dear friend named Sean who is in Eastern Congo right now meeting with Rebels leaders and Child Soldiers. He is braving some of the scariest known areas in all of Africa right now to find answers to so many of our questions.
You can read about these here:
http://www.seancarasso.com.
… Eastern Congo is a place we all need to focus our attention on and pray for….
January 29th, 2008
In the Congo – Continued fighting has added to a humanitarian catastrophe that has caused more deaths — 5.4 million since 1998 — than any other conflict since World War Two, relief experts say. read more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/wl_nm/congo_democratic_ceasefire_dc;_ylt=AuJuCRBUwII6ewGfzXs0zNG96Q8F
January 29th, 2008
Malaria Patients recieve treatment in Kinshasa, DRC.
Facts:
- Malaria is both preventable and curable.
- A child dies of malaria every 30 seconds.
- More than one million people die of malaria every year, mostly infants, young children and pregnant women and most of them in Africa.
January 25th, 2008
I’m currently out in Los Angeles shooting the Passion Conference.
Lots of good music and teachings.
You can find out more at : http://www.286generation.com
It’s so exciting to see so many young people geared up to change the world. It makes my heart soar!!!!
-esther
January 22nd, 2008
Msnbc top headline:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22781603/
Take some time to watch this:
http://mediastorm.org/0022.htm
January 21st, 2008
many of you don’t know.. maybe some do.
I post on a little thing called FLICKR. I almost always post there first…it’s a sneak peak at what’s to come on
estherhavens.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/estherhavens
January 20th, 2008
A woman in a clinic on the outskirts of Kinshasa delivers baby Josh – a healthy baby boy. This clinic, with hardly any medical supplies, treats over 44 patients daily and delivers close to 100 babies per month. The clinic will get so packed that new mothers have to share a twin bed and sleep next to each other with their newborns. The area surrounding is very poor and many of the children will grow up on only get two meals per week. They are extremely malnourished causing their bellies to pop out and their hair to discolor.
January 19th, 2008
We are all home safely now. I will continue posting more stories, videos and photographs in the coming days.Thanks to you all for your many Prayers !Drew, Esther and Josh www.banding-together.org
January 19th, 2008
after 42 hours of travel. I am finally back home safely in my house. It is so strange to be back in this land so far from what I was touched by in the Congo. I can’t wait to go back very very soon. I will keep you updated on that venture as it nears. For now, I must catch up on my sleep and jump back on the bandwagon here in America. I have many stories to edit and get to all of you. This time it will be video/photography media stories to share with you. I can’t wait to get out their voices! so you can hear straight from them.-Esther
January 16th, 2008
Congo Day 7 Today was by far my favorite photographic days. We went back to the rural area of Kinshasa and visited the clinic, where Drew gifted them with medical supplies and helped feed the children. They serve two meals per week right now, but are hoping to increase that in the coming months, hopefully with the help of banding together.Tomorrow I fly back to Paris and then the States. I am not ready at all at this point to come back. I am enjoying my time here so incredible much. There is so much work that needs to be done. There is so much that we can do!!! As crazy as it is.. we did get some soldiers to pose a photo with us and they didn’t steal my camera. 
