Dondo

Dondo Center...3 International Missionaries, In Central Mozambique, a 30 minute drive from the Beira airport and seaport, we have a Bible school and a home for 33 boys, ages 8-16. A building is also planned for housing girls. The Dondo Center cares for about 3,000 orphans in the Central Mozambican provinces. They are served through our "church/home base care" program. We do regular food distribution into those areas and monitor the care of the children. A provision of either rice or mihlo and a bottle of oil sufficient for one months worth of food per child is distributed. Our goal is to eventually provide seed to our pastors/churches for them to grow and maintain crops for their people.

Our mini medical clinic serves our 33 boys, Bible School students and workers.

Currently, four international missionaries serve our Dondo Center. For visiting only Dondo, contact Ashlee Cladek-Fletcher  If your visit includes other centers, you must initiate your plans through hospitality@irismin.org

Mailing Address: Ministerio Arco Iris, Caxia Postal 1237, Beira, Mozambique

Visa Address: Ministerio Arco-Iris, Estrada Nacional #6, Dondo, Sofala, Mozambique

Marcia is in the center, Ashlee on the left and Lisa on the right at a Mozambican wedding.

Marcia Nascimento , Director of Dondo Base, from Brazil, 258-82-130-7450

Other missionaries at Dondo include the following:

Lisa helping in the kitchen, one of her many responsibilities

Lisa Brown from Canada, Ontario Province: 258-82-820-0450 Cp, children's director

Ashlee is sorting potatoes with two of our boys.

Ashlee Cladek-Fletcher from the US, Washington State: 258-82-543-8840 Cp

Ashlee's Website, program lead for registering churches/pastors and evangelism, interim hospitality and clinic

directors

Julie Davis from Canada: 258-82-601-6414 Cp, program leader for registering children in the church-based

orphan care network, food distribution and evangelism

Ashlee (center) and Lisa (top) with many of our 33 boys.  We love them tons!

Gito's first night with us. We welcomed him with prayer and a hug.

Graduation celebration

Our Dondo boys at play

One of our churces in Tete Province

We are greeted as we arrive for food distribution.

Food distribution at Mutara

Pastor's Conference in 2004 at Dondo in Central Mozambique located 35 minutes west on the highway

from Beira, on the Indian Ocean, to Zimbabwe

Worship at Dondo is wonderful at a pastor's conference

Rolland Baker speaking in English, Surprise Sithole translates to Portuguese and our local pastoral leader translates into the local tribal language.  A long sermon can be very long.  But who cares, only visitors have watches as most stand in the dirt under the big trees.

A few of the local pastors up front have crude benches for sitting.

He's not heavy. He's my brother at the Dondo Conference.

The children at Dondo have lots of energy and love to have their picture taken.