MSU Kappa Sigma Spring Break Team in Lesotho, Africa

This spring break, the Delta Chi chapter of Kappa Sigma from Mississippi State University just completed their 5thannual mission trip to Lesotho, the small mountainous Kingdom in southern Africa. “A fraternity, on a spring break mission trip?”, one might ask themselves. But this is no ordinary fraternity. Since 2014, Kappa Sigma has raised over $800,000 dollars to benefit Reclaimed Project. In doing so, they helped launch a small Starkville non-profit into bigger and greater things for God’s Kingdom, not only in Lesotho, but right at home in the Mississippi Delta.

This year, a group of 20 members, accompanied by other MSU students and alumni, travelled back up the treacherous mountain roads to help construct a skills training center for orphaned and vulnerable children in Lesotho. One in every six children in Lesotho are orphaned or vulnerable. The skills training center will be a training facility for young boys and girls, who are facing extreme difficulties in their lives, to gain a competitive advantage by being introduced to a variety of skills. Carpentry, welding, sewing, and even computer literacy classes will be offered to dozens of orphans every year.

This year the chapter constructed a retaining wall roughly a football field long. They also dug out a mountain spring and capped it so the clean water can be used for the skills training center and for our ongoing agricultural projects. They worked very hard along with our Basotho brothers and sisters to help provide clean water for our children, and a safe place for them to come and experience the love of God.

We want to say a special thank you to these young men and the impact that they are having on so many children’s lives in Africa. Because of them, many lives are being changed, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is being proclaimed and demonstrated in these children’s lives. We can’t wait to see what next year holds for this amazing partnership.