The History of Pro Africa

Pro Africa has it beginnings in 2007. It began when I was invited to Kenya by Pastor Bernard Kabaru Mwangi, a Kenyan pastor through a mutual friend, Dr. Floyd Parker. I spoke at three conferences for pastors and youth leaders.

During my stay in Kenya I was able to visit a number of regions where I was shocked by the existing poverty. It was in the town of Nyeri where the terrible problem of poverty came abruptly to my attention. We visited a church located near a slum where 35,000 poverty-stricken people lived in huts made of cardboard. plastic, or rusty torn sheets. We were greeted by 750 hungry children in the church yard. They had come for the feeding program of the church. For most of these children this was the only adequate meal they had in a week. Many of the 7 or 8 year old children brought their 2 or 3 year old brother or sister on their back. The cost of a breakfast and lunch, very rich in nutrients, was only a half a dollar, furnished by donors.

That day God put on my heart the fate of those children and the desire to help. After asking Pastor Bernard Kabaru Mwangi for more details and upon returning back to Romania, Pro Africa started with God’s help, within the ITM Romania Humanitarian Foundation.

Our zeal to help led to the concept of symbolic adoption of these children, leading to a contract of sponsorship between the Koinonia Baptist Church in Ruaka, Kenya (under the leadership of Benard Kabaru Mwangi) and our Romanian Foundation.

Two years later, Pro Africa extended into the neighboring country, Tanzania, where we collaborate with Daily Bread Children’s Home from Iringa, under the leadership of Pastor Mpeli Mwaisumbe, a friend of Dr. Floyd Parker.

Adrian Giorgiov