Update from Zach!

I am posting an update from Zach, I have no words for what is written, it leaves me heartbroken and speechless, prayers for them is so much appreicated!

Last night we did our first feed the hunger at night
program.  One night when we were in lower Gweru it was late by the
time we were heading back to the city and when we were getting out of
the truck that drove us back we saw piles of blankets on the sidewalks
in the city.  Then when we looked closer it was kids.  Lots of kids.
We asked Phillip about it and he told us they were the street kids.
There are lots of them.  They have no home for some reason or another
and they live in the city off of what they can beg or scrape together.
They hide during the day because of the "get rid of the street
trash" campaign so you only see them at night.  After that night our
hearts went out to those kids so we were thinking of ways to help
them.  We decided that to start, so we can build a relationship with
them, and because of our limited funding we would just go and feed
them once a week.  So last night (tuesday night)  Phillip and I went
into town around 9pm with PB&Js and some water and went around looking
for the kids.  What we found was pretty sad and there were many more
people than we had food for.  When I have more time I will explain
better.
              Late this afternoon the first child we took in arrived.
His name is Prince he is 4 years old.  His Dad died a couple of years
ago and his mom remarried.  The new husband, hates Prince though and
has tried to get rid of him a couple of times.  The father has also
resorted to beating Prince, he went even so far as to break Prince's
arm once.  Prince still has pain because of it.  He has burn marks all
over his body too because of the father.  He is very reserved and on
the way here for the last day he hasn't said much of anything.  But
once he got here, Taffila (Phillip's 2 year old son) kept asking
Prince to play and dance with him and by the end of the night he had
Prince laughing so that's a good start.  Prince is also having stomach
problems, we're not sure why.  They think it might just be because he
isn't used to eating enough so now that he had enough to eat today his
tummy might hurt but we're not sure, so prayer for him would be nice.
              Well that's about all we have to update you on now.