Rock of Africa Ministries

A non-profit humanitarian organization, Rock of Africa Foundation is working to fight disease and famine in the Third World by providing medicine, medical supplies, food, tools and education. The Foundation also promotes and funds medical research and development to find solutions to the enormous medical problems plaguing Africa and other undeveloped countries.

Rock of Africa Mission is an interdenominational Christian mission that ministers both physically and spiritually to the desperate people of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Mission offers support to pastors and schools, cares for orphans, provides education about HIV/AIDS and vocational training along with supplying food, clothing and medicine. However, their ultimate mission is to provide hope through the message of Jesus love and plan for salvation.

Partnering with Rock of Africa ministries, Hungry Children Project sent one medical container with a high concentration of AIDS medicine and one container of food to South Africa and Zambia.

Visit www.rockofafrica.org for more information about Rock of Africa Foundation and its current projects.

South Africa

Capital: Pretoria (administrative capital); Cape Town (legislative capital); Bloemfontein (judicial capital)
Population: 44,187,637 (July 2006est)
Religion: Zion Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Catholic 7.1%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%, Other Christian 3.6%, Islam 1.5%, Other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, None 15.1%
Language: IsiZulu 23.8%, IsiXhosa 17.6%, Afrikaans 13.3%, Sepedi 9.4%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.9%
Birth Rate: 18.2 births/1,000 population (2006est)
Death Rate: 22 deaths/1,000 population (2006est)
Infant Mortality Rate: 60.66 deaths/1,000 live births
People living with HIV/AIDS: 5.3 million (2003est)

Zambia

Capital: Lusaka
Population: 11,502,010 (July 2006est)
Religion: Christian 50-75%, Muslim and Hindu 24-49%, indigenous beliefs 1%
Language: English (official), major vernaculars – Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvala, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages
Birth Rate: 41 births/1,000 population (2006est)
Death Rate: 19.93 deaths/1,000 population (2006est)
Infant Mortality Rate: 86.84 deaths/1,000 live births
People living with HIV/AIDS: 920,000 (2003est)
Major Infectious Diseases: Degree of Risk: Very High
Food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A and typhoid fever
Vectorborne diseases: malaria and plague are high risk in some locations
Water contact diseases: schistosomiasis (2005)