The dream is that Centre Amani ("Peace Centre") will be a safe space, where children and young people in Bweremana, Democratic Republic of Congo, have the opportunity to consider and begin to fulfil their potential. - Read More

A partnership with a medical team organising medical camps and establishing health care centres. We are helping to support a doctor with his salary, travelling and some medicines. Medical work forms a very successful base for witnessing.
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The Great Lakes area of Africa is a place wracked by conflict, violence, abuse and poverty. But it is also a place where the Good News of Jesus is spreading quickly through the towns and villages. Harvest Partnership has a number of key people working in this area to promote the concept of Church Planting Movement (CPM), encouraging and training people to share their lives and the Good News in their homes and bring people together in simple small groups.
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Halisi Trust is a not-for-profit, Christian organization that believes in transformational development - change from the inside out. Halisi Trust believes that in empowering youth through alternative education they will be providing an opportunity to come together and solve root problems thus inspiring long term values based solutions. - Read More

Lao Vida focuses on language, vocational and development assistance as pathways to reaching people with the good news of abundant life. They serve both educated urban people and rural young people. Urban and rural people alike live in bondage to superstition and fear of spirits. This business actively builds relationships through which the good news can be shared. - Read More

The Ray of Hope Society has been at work in Nawal Parasi providing opportunities for the community through agricultural schemes and medical facilities. This partnership is the development of a 3,000 bird poultry farm to provide sustainable income and employment for local families, access to cheaper eggs for the community, and a means to generate funds for use in other evangelistic endeavours within Nepal. - Read More

The town of Rawat is the gateway to Islamabad and is an old historic town. Because of the Muslim domination all the Christians are very poor and no Christian from Rawat has finished high school. This partnership seeks to provide hope for these people by teaching women how to sew and thereby giving them a way of gaining worthwhile employment and financially supporting their families. - Read More

For a number of years Azam and Barbara Gill have been working with poor communities, trying to help them become better educated, helping women to train so they can earn an income and helping families to grow strong. Most of this has been achieved by working with small groups of Christians in the communities in Islamabad / Rawalpindi. One of the great barriers they face is illiteracy amongst the adults. In the past, education has not been valued and this is now creating much poverty. This partnership is a pilot programme to address the issue of adult illiteracy in one small community, Rawat. - Read More

The Cappuccino Club aims not only to place squatter children into university but also to provide a mentoring programme through the context of the local church. For the same price as a cup of coffee a day a Filipino student can attend university. - Read More

The Good News Team creatively and effectively shares the gospel and love of Jesus to hundreds of thousands of people in Thailand. Aiming at children, they hope many will accept Jesus as Lord and lead others to Christ, transforming whole communities. - Read More

Hill tribe people in general do not have access to proper education, especially those without citizenship and living in remote areas. At least 80% of primary aged children in ITDP's targeted areas have few opportunities to study in proper schools. - Read More

Since 2004 Chuenjit has been working with highly 'at-risk' young people (14-17 year olds) in the Youth Detention Centre north of Bangkok. Chuenjit was keen to set-up a half-way house so she could continue to look after these young people for a while after they come out of the remand home. Her vision is to help them develop good habits, learn new skills and have a more normal life. - Read More

Frog farming is a very viable income-generation project that will result in church planters and their families being totally self-supporting. - Read More

One of the great challenges Uganda faces is feeding it's people in a sustainable way. We believe the key to making this dream a reality is to teach and train local people to grow their own food. And in the process of doing that, they learn to care for their own families. - Read More

Lonard & Rosemary Daka have been church planting in this area for about 20 years. As they developed churches they were swamped by the needs of the vulnerable children and their guardians. So they started 'Chifundo' to care for the children, to resource and encourage the guardians, to get the children into school and assist the community. - Read More

Living in a low cost housing area of urban Africa is not a pleasant thing. When your suburb has many hotels and beer halls it places you in the midst of poverty and everything associated with that. That is where Titus Mambwe and some of his friends live and they have decided to do something about it. - Read More

Fountain of Hope is an organization whose main mission is to combat the spread and reduce the impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children, women, and the community at large through the provision of orphan care services, HIV/AIDS workshops and community based development projects. - Read More

Emmanuel Kumar and his wife Jessie work as pastors in the town of Kakinada in East Godavari. They pastor a church, run a Bible School and oversee a number of other ministries that help the poor. They became concerned at the number of children living on the streets or in desperate poverty and so decided to provide a home for them. - Read More

Twice a year Dave de Roles and Marty Scheib take a team to India to do short term mission outreach and training. They are involved in running outreach camps and programmes for Hindu youth and also training/equipping local pastors and leaders to run these outreach programmes themselves. - Read More

It is difficult to explain the poverty and lack of opportunity for the people of rural India. They have few opportunities for education and employment. Many are trapped in degrading poverty for life with little hope of escape. Into these places go the people trained at Delihi Bible Institute. They go to live in these villages and bring a message of life and hope and small scale development. - Read More

There are many families living in rural villages in North India who are there for the purpose of establishing churches in their communities. They are driven to do this by a desire to see people given the opportunity to hear the message of faith in Jesus Christ and to help people become economically self sufficient. - Read More

There are many young people in developing countries with great potential and secondary school education who cannot go on to further training. Because of this, their potential will never be realised and their chance to move out of poverty and become productive citizens and even leaders is gone. - Read More

Microfinance is the provision of small loans to those who, because of the effects of poverty, cannot access mainstream finance. These loans are often essential for people to provide for their families' needs. The loans may be as small as $50 but can totally transform a life, a family or a community. - Read More

Bright Hope World has partners in some of the poorest countries in the world. These are countries where a natural disaster can devastate hundreds of thousands of lives and where help may never arrive for many people. Even when help is available, it may be denied to some based on ethnicity or religion. The Bright Hope World Global Disaster Fund has been established to enable us to be prepared to help when disaster strikes. - Read More

Mathare Valley compound is a shocking place. Yet amongst all the noise, filth, confusion and chaos live thousands of beautiful young children. Without the intervention of Mathare Community Outreach (MCO), few of them would ever get a chance at a normal life, safety and education. This partnership is about educating as many young people as possible to give them a chance to become significant and productive. - Read More

This is a micro-enterprise fund for small scale loans that will provide employment and income for ministry in the future. More than 80 families are already benefiting from this fund. - Read More

Chrissy and Suzen Lukanga are Zambian missionaries, involved in reaching out to unreached people groups of the three Northern provinces of Mozambique; Gabo Delgado, Nampula and Niassa, with the love and teaching about Jesus Christ. - Read More

The church is alive and well in Myanmar. This partnership focuses on the support of six church planters in various parts of the country. It is too dangerous to give many details as we don't want to compromise these men and their families. - Read More

Edward Qasar and his father, Pastor Manzoor Jalal, have had a long term vision to establish a sewing factory in Lahore to both provide employment for local people and generate income for their ministry in Pakistan. The plan is to develop this factory so that eventually it will employ around 300 people. - Read More

South Sudan is a country that has emerged from a traumatic civil unrest that has left 90% of the population in utter poverty. The majority of the south Sudan population live in a pitiable situation of poverty. The introduction of a micro-loan programme to the South Sudanese will be a great relief to boost the businesses of the self employed. - Read More

It is estimated that most hill tribes in Thailand and its surrounding regions are living below $350 annual income. That is less than $1/day. ITDP seeks to help these villages in an holistic sustainable way. - Read More

For a variety of reasons the hill tribes of Thailand often do not have the same opportunities as other Thai nationals, therefore making it difficult for them to alleviate themselves from poverty. It is with these concerns that ITDP is providing assistance. However, these villagers not only need their physical needs met but also their spiritual needs. - Read More

Water shortages are increasing as a result of global warming and other climatic / environmental factors. Villagers continue to ask for assistance with establishing new systems and expanding old ones, as a consequence of nearby water sources drying up, village population's increasing and/or villages being relocated to new areas.

Access to improved water supply is not only a fundamental need and human right, it also has considerable health and economic benefits to households and individuals. - Read More

As Timothy and Janepher Kakooza began to plant a church in Katosi, they very quickly found that the village had many children, few schools and many orphans. - Read More

A group of Christian people are involved in a church planting movement on the border of Uganda and Kenya. There are more than 700 vulnerable children identified. This partnership has a number of components: assistance for orphans by sending them to school, church planting and a very successful micro-enterprise programme. - Read More

In Lira, Northern Uganda, there is a family struggling to cope with the impact of the internal war with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Twenty-eight children are being cared for by two sisters and their families. These children have been captured, some of them raped and beaten, some were child soldiers. They are living in a rented house, being fed and sent to school. - Read More

Thomas and Joyce Lubari lead a church in Jinja, Uganda which comprises of some of the poorest people in Uganda. They have a real heart for these people and this micro-loan scheme is an exciting development to enable them to offer a helping hand to the people in their congregation. - Read More

Oliver Mulenga and some friends became concerned at the number of children that were living on the streets of Kalulushi, a town on the Copperbelt of Zambia. - Read More

On the border of Zambia and the DRC, near the city of Ndola, lives a solo mother who has been trained in orphan care and care programmes. Doris has identified 11 vulnerable orphaned children who live in the bush with their very poor mother. None of the children go to school. - Read More

Currently the majority of Bright Hope World partnerships in Zambia are predominantly focused on getting HIV/AIDS orphans into school by supplying school fees, stationary and uniforms. The orphans are still looked after in the community by relatives or neighbors. However hunger is a huge issue and is potentially going to get worse. Bright Hope World has been challenged by this need and is now seeking to run kitchen garden training programmes and micro-enterprise loans in an attempt to improve household nutrition and food security as well as to kindle a spirit of self-reliance. - Read More

Octavio visits villages in the Villamontes area going house to house with the gospel. He has been working as a missionary for many years in an area where there are dangers from wild animals.
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Tino is co-manager of the Bright Hope farm project and also travels to villages to share the gospel. The farm sells milk locally for a good price. They have 11 cows. The farm supports a Bible School and its students who come from all over Bolivia. Tino is a mature Christian who is valued for his counsel and has developed considerable influence in the area.
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A Trades Training Institute has been set-up in association with the Camiri Bible Institute to provide practical training for the students so they can support themselves as they work in towns and villages throughout Bolivia growing the church. - Read More

The Rehema Ministry seeks to select needy orphans and vulnerable children within the church setting in the town of Bunia and to provide them with education assistance. - Read More

The training of church planters is the main passion of the leadership of this ministry. They want to train a number of church planters each year and then fund them into church planting. There will be training for potential church planters and also refresher courses for those already in ministry. - Read More

There are many widows living on the streets of Ethiopian cities. In Gondar, one church has done something about it. They approached the local council to identify some of the most vulnerable. They were allocated 58 of them. They have rented a house and each day the widows come from begging on the streets for meals, a shower and fellowship. - Read More

The support of up to 67 church planters who will be trained in the first part of 2008. Once trained and approved they will be assessed and sent out into the rural villages and towns of Northern Ethiopia to become agents of transformation. - Read More

A church in Debre Markos was supporting 5 vulnerable people, but there are many more who needed assistance but could not be funded. This support will supplement the support the church currently gives and allow them to increase the number of beneficiaries to around 30. - Read More

CFCT runs regular sewing training programmes for very poor Hindu women. The course runs for nine months and women who graduate get a treadle sewing machine. This programme sets women up to earn a small income and care for their families. - Read More

Emmanuel and Jessie Kumar live in the coastal city of Kakinada. Among other strategic ministries, they lead a church ministry into a leper village in the town. There were so many lepers on the streets begging that the local authorities allowed them to build a village near to the crematorium. There are nearly 300 people ostracised from the community with little food, little health care, no education and very poor homes. - Read More

"If you pour yourself into children they can achieve anything but children are in need of good teachers who teach not just from the head but from the heart. Even poor children can become great." - Read More

An outstanding example of Christ's compassion, this partnership focuses on rescuing abandoned and often terminally ill people off the streets of Bangalore. - Read More

Sowers International is an organisation that trains churches to evangelise in their communities by using the method of open air preaching. They have a well developed, 5 level training programme that sees thousands of team members a year trained, hundreds of open air messages preached, many people counselled and hundreds of new churches a year planted in Africa. - Read More

This is a little school run by a dynamic older couple, Robert and Rose Gitau. They don't actually do the day to day organisation, they have staff to do that but they are the behind the scenes networkers. They planted a church in Tala and were overrun by children not able to go to school for various reasons. As the school developed it became obvious that some of the children had no parents so a group of "boarders" was taken in and now there are over 50 of them living in the church building! - Read More

Robert and Rose Gitau are change makers and community transformers. They have planted a church in Tala and developed a school. As well as this they have given their lives for this community. - Read More

The Fame Children's Home cares for 53 children from nearby villages. The majority of their homes are poverty riddled and HIV/AIDS affected with one or no biological surviving parents. The home provides a secure Christian environment for these children, providing good nutrition and a stable learning environment. - Read More

Eshel Garden is a Foundations for Farming demonstration garden where training seminars will be held to create awareness of improved farming methods in an effort to enhance food security and reduce poverty in this area of Kenya. - Read More

Namana is the Malagasy word for friend, and expresses our desire to come alongside the socially and economically isolated poor of Madagascar to give them a better future through micro loans. They will also be trained in entrepreneurial skills, Biblical values and basic economics. - Read More

Kutwanana is a small NGO, registered with the Mozambique government set up by the Mchava church that Patrick and Grace Mulenga pastor. The community is huge, no one knows the figure but it's hundreds of thousands of people. The programme has 35 volunteers who visit around the community finding the needy and trying to help them. More than 200 orphan children are being cared for. Many of them could not get to school so a small school has been established to help those most vulnerable. - Read More

Some of the older children in the Kutwanana programme have now graduated from secondary school. They are the future leaders of the work and in the local churches. Without some assistance, they face the struggle of not being able to get training and move into serious employment. The purpose of this is to give scholarships to key young people to assist them with their post secondary school training. - Read More

There are some places on earth that are hard places, hard to get to, hard to enter and hard to work in. The land of the Koti people is one of those places on earth. The Koti are a group of people with a very basic lifestyle on the coast of Mozambique. Their children grow up in poverty, living in the sand and eating fish. - Read More

MCTS is a training centre just outside Yangon, Myanmar. But this partnership is not just about theological training, it's about empowering and equipping a generation of Christ followers and community leaders. The plan is to develop a chicken broiler unit to generate profit which would be used to support the operating costs of MCTS and to support key agents of change in their communities. - Read More

For a number of years BHW has been partnering with Samuel Thang. He is a pastor and leader and cares for many vulnerable children. This micro-loan programme will seek to enable church pastors to become self-sufficient, provide employment for the older youth at Peace Children's Home and empower poor rural Christians. - Read More

Poverty is rife in the suburbs of Yangon. Many people cannot make ends meet, even people with jobs struggle to clothe, feed, house and educate their families. Along with that, a number of recent climate events have added pressure onto families who have little to fall back on economically. - Read More

Azam Gill is the Bright Hope World Pakistan partnership facilitator and visits our other partnerships to assist with advice and reports. He has been in ministry for more than 13 years and is very passionate about the gospel. - Read More

As everyone knows, there are major issues in Pakistan. It appears to be a country that harbours and produces extremists. However, the majority of the people are not extremists. To help break down barriers between religious groups and foster understanding, Barbara Gill has established a school in Islamabad. - Read More

Godofredo Rubio is involved in pastoral care, teaching, counselling and evangelism. He has written the Life Course which is a five part evangelistic Bible study used extensively throughout Peru. Recently he has been involved in a church plant in the south of Peru. Godofredo has been leading church planting in the Cajamarca area. - Read More

Saul and Clara are involved in training programmes, teaching, counselling and discipling. He also takes students to the mission field to live with people-groups as part of their cross cultural experience, working mainly in the jungle areas.
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Melchor works in the central mountains of Peru with the least evangelised people and strengthening churches. He periodically visits tribes in the Amazon jungle who are unreached and have a different culture and language. - Read More

Manuel is in charge of developing a missionary training centre in the jungle town of Atalaya, strategically located for helping prepare workers of the churches of five nearby tribes. - Read More

Oscar carries out his ministry in the city of Lima and in the jungle of Peru where he visits five different native communities periodically. Oscar is the President of Segadores, a Peruvian church planting group dedicated to reaching the tribes of the Amazon basin. - Read More

Antonia is involved in frequent visits to the Amazon tribal children and missionary children in the jungle. She has a ministry with children, feeding them a meal a day as well as teaching reading and handicraft work. This is a significant ministry with growing opportunities for witnessing. - Read More

Seberino has been committed to taking the Gospel to the villages in the Cajamarca province since 1983. God has used him to plant various churches, besides attempting to establish more churches. Seberino visits the already established churches as well as the churches that exist that are not a result of his evangelistic work throughout the Cajamarca countryside. He is committed to training, teaching and evangelising.
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Gregorio and Ines work with the Peruvian missions group, Segadores, a group that is dedicated to reaching previously unreached Amazonian jungle tribes with the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are currently living in the community of San Fausto in the Peruvian Amazon and are seeking to reach the Asheninka tribal group. - Read More

Rudy and Flor pastor two churches and are involved in a number of outreach Bible studies that have the potential to become new churches. They have being working in Ranao-Ranao, in Ligao City, for 13 years and there is a group of 70 people meeting in the church. - Read More

Elvin Buenviaje is the Executive Director of Emmaus Church Planting Ministries. He is on the full time staff of ECPM directly overseeing the operation of church planting activities and at the same time is involved in teaching church planting teams. He also visits church planting teams on the mission site to provide pastoral care and to coach the team in implementing the church planting programme. - Read More

This fund was set up as an emergency fund for training/coaching or medical expenses for the ECPM workers. - Read More

After being a volunteer for a year and another year as a part-time staff member at ECPM, Ella is currently the coordinator of the Youth in Missions for Christ (YMC). YMC is the youth arm and a mission strategy of ECPM. She is also handling the Campus Ministry of YMC now going into its second year. - Read More

ECPM seeks to train people in church planting and then sends them out to areas in the Philippines where there are no churches. This partnership seeks to provide financial support for one church planting team. - Read More

ECPM has started a new training programme designed to reach high school and college students in partnership with the local churches that are situated near school campuses. The thrust is to help churches establish campus ministry and at the same time assist them in training their youth leaders. This is a one-year and two-year training programme for teams of youth campus leaders composed of 2 to 3 members. The prospective team members are Christian students studying in the target school. - Read More

For more than 2 years Vicente Enriques has been a part-time team member at ECPM and he has now taken over Wilson Tayaban''s role, particularly attending most of the training modules and encouraging various church planting teams throughout the Philippines. - Read More

Vicente Enrique has been supported by BHW for a number of years. He is a key person in the ECPM training programme. Victor wants to be self-supporting and this is an attempt to help his family achieve that. - Read More

ECPM is looking to start a business refilling printer ink cartridges as an income generation activity to start the process of self-sustainability. - Read More

Prasert leads the Top Kids programme and Heart of Mercy ministry with children from the slums of Bangkok. She is a strong and influential leader who is capably training and making a significant difference in the lives of others. - Read More

Top Kids is an evangelistic and teaching programme for children held every Saturday. The "Through the Bible" curriculum, written and illustrated by Prasert Taksin and her team, is used to lay a foundation to present the gospel. Around 80 children have been converted and are being discipled through this programme. - Read More

Rahab rescues girls from prostitution in the bars of Bangkok and helps rehabilitate them through training and education. - Read More

Some people are infectious in terms of their passion, enthusiasm and expression. John and Nok are that kind of couple. They are totally convinced about their roles leading a church planting movement in Thailand, and traditionally it has not been an easy place to plant churches. They are a key couple with a great dream and a mighty God who loves Thai people. - Read More

Mbale village was formed by internally displaced people from the city of Mbale. They are poor and trying to eke out a living from fishing. There is a great deal of drunkeness, abuse and very few children were going to school. Timothy and Janepher felt obligated to do something so sent some teachers to this village to start a school. - Read More

Thomas Lubari has been involved in church development and planting in Sudan based out of Jinja in Uganda. He leads a church in Jinja and makes frequent visits to the Sudan. He is very passionate and despite a lot of financial constraints, is working very hard. He has a number of other projects in development in Sudan including literacy, training and agriculture.
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Anna Ocen (UGA03a) is currently working with a group of widows and single mothers in Mbale where she lives. Aproximatetely three years ago they started a small loan scheme amongst themselves and now need some outside funding to help establish their businesses and take things to the next level. - Read More

Helping at the Hope Restoration Centre in Lira are 30 widows and single mothers. These women are desperately poor. They come and help at the home and sometimes even give to the orphans. Their camaraderie and joy is infectious. - Read More

This area is known in Uganda as a cattle and dairy farming area. It is fertile and there are many very large farms and ranches. Using dairy cows to generate income therefore has good potential to support the key people financially and to assist the poor in the area to become self-sustaining. - Read More

Marumba Christian School is a community school located in the village of Marumba. It has been established to help less privileged children attain a better quality of education and to be imparted with spiritual values. - Read More

Personal support of Leonard & Rosemary Daka working with orphans in Chipata, Zambia. They are key leaders and oversee 50 orphans in their own village, another 45 in other villages and the development of a Community School. - Read More

About 65 kilometres into the bush from Kalulushi is the town of Katembula. It is the main town in a growing area and there are many very poor people. There is little infrastructure in the community. - Read More

Bright Hope World helps support 30 vulnerable children in the village called Kamatipa. Jeremiah and Faides Chiyesu live there and give the hands on care for the children. - Read More

Jeremiah and Faides are the key people on the ground in Kamatipa. They tend their own farm, lead the small church of about 100 people, and care for the orphans. Jeremiah is originally from Angola and from time to time goes back there to help his people and teach in the churches. - Read More

Rebecca Kaumba is on the staff at Amano School in Chingola. In the church she comes from, Lulamba CMML, she has a number of friends. One of them mentioned to Rebecca that there were a lot of vulnerable children in her neighbourhood and she encouraged her to get them together and try to help them. She therefore did and found there were more than 20 children. Bright Hope now assists these children to go to school. - Read More

OM Zambia is a missions training centre that is equipping potential missionaries and the churches that send them. It is particularly aimed at mobilising the African church for the task of missions. It is based at a strategic location and produces good quality graduates. - Read More

Charles Chibale Chola lives in the remote rural village of Kaishe. After observing the SCCP project that was developing in Samfya he went back to his area and talked to the church leaders. They formed an association to care for the vulnerable children in their community. There are six churches in six small villages covering about 5 kms of the road. They discovered 193 orphans and have registered them. - Read More

Charles is the key person in this partnership at Kaishe. He has an ideal little farm plot to look after himself. He also travels extensively to preach the gospel, frequently into the DRC which is a few kilometres from this village. We have been providing a small level of support to supplement his income. - Read More

There are few opportunities for school leavers in the Kaishe area. Riccarton Community Church in Christchurch, NZ, has worked with the community of Kaishe to establish a skills training centre. This will eventually become self funding but requires some establishment funding. - Read More

At the end of 2005 BHW received an emergency call from one of our partners, Andy Patching from Isubilo in Zambia. He knew a person in Solwezi, Zambia who was caring for 60 orphans and vulnerable children. Joseph Kampelembi and his wife had been sending them to school but could not afford it for 2006. We therefore gave them the funds to get them going and asked them to make an application for the following year. - Read More

Over the lake from Samfya, in the Northern Province of Zambia, lies a little village almost totally dependant on fishing. "It is a poor village, as poor as I have ever seen in Africa." says the BHW Africa Director. The seven churches in the village have got together and identified 230 orphans and vulnerable children who need assistance, especially with schooling. - Read More

GLO Alive is the youth wing of GLO Zambia and has been established to address the changing face of the youth culture in Zambia. The team at GLO realised there was a need to re-evaluate the way the church dealt with young people and have a desire not only to impact the local youth in their area but also to empower churches all over Zambia in their ministry to young people. - Read More

There are many small churches in Africa struggling under the onslaught of the HIV / AIDS pandemic. In this area 4 churches have formed care groups and are trying to look after a few orphans. Partnering with them creates opportunities to directly help the most vulnerable and facilitate change amongst some of the poorest of the poor. - Read More

There are many children in Kabwe whose guardians and parents are so poor that it is impossible to send the children to school. The children are keen to learn but have little or no opportunity to excel. Opportunity has come up for BHW to become involved in assisting more than 120 children in Kabwe to go to school. - Read More

Tilapia fish farm has been developed in Shell, Ecuador, for the purpose of funding people to travel for evangelism. The key person is Reinaldo Bernal, a Colombian missionary in Shell. Their main target group are the Huaorani people, formerly known as Auca. - Read More

BHW has been involved in a number of partnerships in Ethiopia since 2005. The intention has always been to develop some form of income generation there to enable these programmes to become self-sustainable. - Read More

Premila trains refugee women in new income generating skills and educates them, many of whom have been rejected by their families and friends because of their faith.
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Vidya Sagar is a Christian entrepreneur. In this instance he has started producing balm for sale to Christian workers. They then onsell the balm for a profit and are able to support themselves in ministry from the sales. A small factory has been built and the balm is now being produced and distributed. - Read More

Nagaland, in the north-east of India is one of the least developed states on the sub-continent. It is made up of difficult terrain and is politically unstable. Many of the local people are struggling to make a living. Bright Hope Nagaland is an attempt by a group of local people to introduce hope and change to their local communities. - Read More

Food production in rural Kenya isn't easy. Robert and Rose Gitau live in an area where there is little rain and poor soil and they need to feed many people. BHW is working with them to help them grow food, to provide for themselves and the hundreds of children they care for. - Read More

Bob Abdullah is a church planter/pastor in the west of Kenya near Kisumu. In the post-election violence in 2008 his wife's tailoring business was destroyed therefore taking away their only income source. - Read More

Poverty is a huge issue in Myanmar and even more so amongst Christians there as often they are expelled from their communities and struggle to survive. One of our partners there is seeking to address this issue in his area. This partnership involves providing a one-off amount for him to buy a Chinese tractor. - Read More

Due to the recent cyclone many people are with out food and water. Our contact in Myanmar Dr Aung is asking for our help in being able to provide resources to buy rice, garlic, potatoes and onions for the most needy. - Read More

The Peace Children's Home was established in 2003 and exists to bring healing to orphaned or abandoned children by providing an environment where they can grow strong emotionally, physically and spiritually, and become healthy adults and productive citizens. The plan is to start an internet cafe as a way of providing funds for the Children's Home. - Read More

The Ray of Hope Society is based in Kathmandu, but they seek to bring holistic community development to rural areas of Nepal. They have set up a health clinic in a poor area of the south-east of Nepal. Clean water and improved sanitation has become a means of helping those who have no access to these services and is a basis for encouraging church growth and health. - Read More

There are many communities in Nepal that are not developing and in which there are inadequate facilities and incentives to grow. Nawal Parasi provides opportunities for agriculture and medical growth and the Ray of Hope Society sees this as the best site for their next engagement. - Read More

Christian women in Pakistan face many pressures. Because they are Christians it is almost impossible to gain employment or training. They have little ability to become financially independent. Women are often ostracized and suffer various forms of abuse because of their faith. Sometimes they are forced to marry and cannot break free from bondage. - Read More

There are many young people in Pakistan who struggle to gain significant employment. To gain an advantage over others in the competitive market it's important to be as well trained in computers as possible. Information technology is a very important field in which to be proficient. - Read More

Heavy monsoon rains have flooded much of Pakistan displacing thousands of families and leaving millions homeless, but as yet no major relief efforts have begun to reach the hardest hit regions. - Read More

Jose Isabel is involved in visiting villages in and around Cajamarca each week to share the gospel and has weekly meetings with various non-Christian families. He is also involved in helping with translation work for Wycliffe translating the Bible into Quechua. Bright Hope has a carpentry shop project that has enabled him to become self supporting (see PER03b). - Read More

This was set up to support Jose Isabel Ayay's missionary work (PER03a) and enable him to do more frequent evangelism visits. They are hoping to purchase more equipment to make the shop more productive.
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Jorge is involved in various ministries including a church plant situation that now has 70 members. They are planning a church plant in a village called San Juan when the church membership reaches 150. Jorge and his wife have a newborn son. - Read More

The church at Centro Christiana Vida is currently running a trial chicken farm in Cajamarca. The purpose is to generate some profit to fund church planting in the Cajamarca region. The intention is to expand the chicken farm to fully fund Jorge Asto and his family as church planters. The chicken farm should be self supporting in six months. - Read More

Macedonio is working with Segadores helping in the search of unreached tribes. He visits the tribes sharing the gospel, material needs and teaching and encouraging those who have become Christians. Macedonio has worked for many years in the jungle areas with the Segadores group helping with projects involving better drinking water, improved health care and food crop cultivation. - Read More

Four missionaries have been sent by the mission group Segadores to the town of San Fausto in Peru to start church planting in the area. Macedonio Huamani and Gerardo Huyacallan, both Peruvian, and Marcus & Adina Dumitru, from Romania lead the work there. They want to put in a solar panel to assist with development in this area which is very remote. - Read More

Puerto Maldonado is a jungle city in the southern Amazonian region of Peru. This is a fast growing area and needs to be evangelised. Miguel and his wife are very dedicated to the Lord's work here. - Read More

Kelabo and Arou towns are in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. They are rural communities that are struggling with the huge increases in food prices, especially of rice. The churches in these towns have realised they can do something to assist their communities so they sent selected people to attend a training programme to learn how to grow rice. They then returned to their communities and have grown rice as a model. A mill will be put into each village to encourage the development. - Read More

The Christian Leaders Training College (CLTC) has been runing a rice growing training programme since 2006 and as part of this programme they were keen to install a rice mill so trainees could also learn how to mill the rice. - Read More

Largely on account of its isolation, Hauna village and the Wokoma area of the Sepik Valley have suffered from benign neglect. Consequently the 3,000 people (approximately) who live in Hauna and the surrounding villages are facing big financial difficulties now. - Read More

Many Thai church planters are working in small villages where the new church is not able to fully support them and their families. Mushroom cultivation has proven to be an effective means of providing partial support for pastors and church planters as it does not require full-time commitment to working on the project. - Read More

Num Nueng Children's Hostel was started by Takberg Church under the leadership of Pastor Ponchai Banchasawan so that Hmong tribal children on Takberg mountain could get an education that was not available in their home village. This hostel means these highly at-risk children have the chance of an education to break out of the poverty trap. - Read More

Gershom and Jenipher have proved themselves as trusted and active partners over a number of years. Gershom has been involved in church planting since 1987 and has planted more than 20 churches in the Kawambwa area. - Read More

KERO farms has been set up to support the orphans in Beracah Orphan Care and to provide employment for people in the local area. The local chief has granted Bright Hope 300 hectares in three locations. - Read More

KERO farm has been set up to provide employment for people and support the orphans in Beracah Orphans. This year requires the purchase of some equipment to change this from being a small scale peasant farm into a commercial operation: an ox cart, a solar irrigation pump, barbed wire, 7 animals and 1,000 banana plants. The plan is that by 2010 the place will be self sustaining.
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Oliver Mulenga is an entrepreneur, church planter and evangelist. He has established his own block making business as well as the other business activities. BHW supports him to enable him to create resources for the kingdom of God. - Read More

Dick Mumba, his wife Anita and their family run a Christian school for 23 street kids in a house in Chipata, Zambia. The programme includes feeding the children and giving them spiritual guidance. - Read More

Sometimes you meet people who make an immediate impression on you. Dick and Anita are like that. They have five children of their own but have a real love, care and concern for the many vulnerable children in Zambia and have spent many years in ministry with children. - Read More

In recent years, Chaba has struggled with the impacts of overfishing and is finding it harder to make a living from this traditional trade. As a whole the community is finding that they must become more reliant on agriculture production and diversification as a means of providing food and income for their families. The goal here is to increase the standard of living in Chaba by investing in local agriculture infrastructure. - Read More

Samfya Bible School is a key provider of training in the Luapula Province of Zambia. Every year they train about 20 people who become pastors, evangelists, church planters and change agents in their communities. They produce high quality graduates, many of whom are making a huge impact on their communities and who will become Bright Hope partners in the future. - Read More

Maplehurst Farm has been purchased in Zambia for the purpose of generating funds in Africa. The idea is to use the funds to support existing projects. It will also become a base from which to operate in Zambia and to train local people. Maplehurst Farm is a serious attempt to address the issues that face southern Africa in an appropriate way; in a way that creates a number of side benefits. - Read More

Along with providing a place for training, especially training in sustainable farming methods, the Maplehurst Centre also generates income for BHW Zambia partnerships by renting various accommodation buildings at the Centre. - Read More

For a number of years BHW has been supporting a partnership in Chisasa, ZAM15. This involves the support of vulnerable children and getting them into school. The leadership also want to develop self sustaining programmes to start generating their own funds and have a number of plans to do that. - Read More