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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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