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The Bill and Bette Bryant Crisis Nursery, located deep within one of the poorest shanty communities of Lusaka, is an oasis of hope. The roads to the home are narrow, filled with potholes and, in the rainy season, almost impassable, but the wall around the house is painted with laughing cartoon animals and circled with plants and flowers.
As many as fifteen toddlers fill the house with activity. A first time visitor would never guess that the animated children playing in the bright living room had been outcasts, most of them orphans or abandoned, before they found life-saving help at the Bill and Bette Bryant Crisis Nursery. The Nursery is a safe home, saturated with love, prayer and tender care, where young children can begin the process of healing.
Opened in November of 2003, this home is named in honor of Dr. Bill Bryant, the founding director of The Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church, USA, a major partner in the establishment and operation of all three homes. In 2000, during the dedication of Zambia’s first crisis nursery, House of Martha, Dr. Bryant expressed his heart by saying, “This home is just our first one. I pray that we will open many more homes just like this one across Zambia, and throughout sub-Saharan Africa.”
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Read some stories about Bryant Crisis Nursery children:
Adopted By Street Boys
The Serial Orphan
Big Miracle for Little Boy
House of Moses House of Martha |
