International Projects for 2008-09
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Schools, Literacy, and Training
We welcome your donation, no matter the amount. Thank you!
• 40% of the people in India cannot read or write
• One-third of India's children cannot attend elementary school, usually because there is no local school to attend
Teach Them to Read
How can they learn if they cannot read or write? Help poor villagers become more self-sufficient through literacy.
$42 to teach 5 people to read & write
Dalit Island Kindergarten
Friends like you helped build a kindergarten on a poor river island. Now keep it open and provide school furniture for the 50 little islanders.
$56 per kindergartner
Breaking the Chains
Jesus had a compassionate heart for prisoners. Will you? Provide literacy and Bible classes, vocational training, and Christian fellowship in a dark prison in deepest India.
$15 to reach one prisoner for one year
School Furniture
Help provide furniture for a teacher and school students who are currently sitting on the floor to study.
$366 for table, chair, bench, & blackboard
School for Fisher-Children
Support the only school in an Untouchable/Dalit fishing village that serves 250 children.
$17 per student for one year
Able to Succeed
Provide computer training to high school- & college-age students who are physically disabled. They will also learn how to secure jobs that will lead to self-sufficiency.
$50 suggested gift
Church Work
We welcome your donation, no matter the amount. Thank you!
• India is 81% Hindu, 13% Muslim, and 2% Christian
Motorcycles for Missionaries
How will distant villages hear about Christ if no one can get to the village? Equip a missionary with a motorcycle to get there.
$1,540 per motorcycle
Teach, Preach and Send
Help educate and equip 12 Bible College students in a one-year program.
$230 to train one for one year
Discipleship for Leaders
Support a conference to train 125 village pastors to dig deep into the Bible in one year using 'Life Journals' translated into their local language.
$48 to train 3 pastors and leaders
Build a Parsonage or Latrine
Help build a parsonage for a pastor and his family who minister in a Dalit village. Or, help provide sanitary toilets for the church.
$4,000 to build one parsonage
$600 to build toilets for one church
Food and Shelter
We welcome your donation, no matter the amount. Thank you!
• India has 146 million malnourished children under age 5, the most of any country on earth
• 25% of Indians live below the poverty line
Buffaloes to Empower
Self-sufficiency is what you can provide village families through the purchase of a milk-giving water buffalo.
$475 per buffalo
Bunk Beds for Children
Sleeping on the floor is hard, even for children in an Indian orphanage. You can give them bunk beds to sleep in!
$80 per child, or
$240 per 3-person bunk bed
Tsunami Homes
Many coastal villagers are still homeless from the devastating tsunami of 2004. You can provide a family with a safe, secure 200 sq. ft home.
$1,150 per home
(your gift will be matched and doubled by another donor, as each house costs $2,300)
Able to Eat and Sleep
Provide hostel housing and meals for young disabled adults who are learning computer skills and how to get jobs.
$50 suggested gift
Health Care
We welcome your donation, no matter the amount. Thank you!
• In India, infant mortality is 3 deaths per 100
• Infectious disease risk is high for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis A, typhoid fever, dengue fever, encephalitis, rabies, and malaria
De-worming Medicines
Parasitic worms rob children of nutrition they may get from their meager meals. Help provide medicines so they can grow up strong and healthy.
$30 will treat 50 children
Jungle Clinics
You can help medical clinics that serve 500,000 tribal people in the jungles of India. Services include emergency, urgent care, immunizations, dental, and eye clinics.
$50 suggested gift
Dalit Clinic of Mercy
Help underwrite a medical clinic that provides health care to thousands of Dalit men, women and children who have no other place to go.
$50 suggested gift
Special Funds
We welcome your donation, no matter the amount. Thank you!
Sent to Serve
You may not be able to go, so send a dedicated volunteer to serve the poor of India with the love of Christ.
$1,500 per air ticket to India
Where Most Needed
Designate your gift to this fund, and we will put it to the best use, based on the needs at that time.
$50 suggested gift