Bukavu is a city of around 1 million people in the East of the DR Congo. It is a centre around which there is a great deal of rebel activity. Many women are left as widows and they struggle to make ends meet and care for their children. ACLUP seeks to identify the poorest Christian women and assist them to establish and operate small businesses so they can become financially independent.

There are many communities near to Bukavu that are in desperate need of safe water. In 2021 BHW partnered with ACLUP to successfully provide water for the Chikera community (DRC08a) and after seeing the dramatic impact this had on that community, they are now keen to continue doing water projects in many more villages.

The Orphan's Place of Peace was established in July 2018 when Rev Israel Ngirababo decided to start taking care of children who had been orphaned when their parents lost their lives during different rebellion wars that happened, and continue happening, in the eastern part of the DR Congo.

After living in Burundi for a number of years, in 2015 Paulin Bashombana returned to his hometown of Bukavu, DR Congo, and very quickly realised that there was a big problem in eastern DRC, and something needed to be done. There were large numbers of orphans in the community, living on the streets, so Paulin brought them together, found ways for them to be able to study and has placed some of them in the homes of Christians from their different churches.

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.

For several years BHW has been supporting Harvest Partnership and their work in the Great Lakes area of Africa and Kenya. One of the ministries that developed was a street kids work in the town of Mariakani, near Mombassa. This work, KENSHA Youth Outreach, grew and now there are about 250 kids engaged every week, being encouraged and mentored.

Kariobangi Outreach Children's Home was opened in 1997 with the objective to cater for orphans and vulnerable children affected by HIV/AIDS.

After their marriage, Robert and Rose Gitau began to serve God by travelling to different villages preaching and helping the poor. Eventually they bought a small plot of land in Nguluni and launched a small church. The church began to grow and they started to not only help the community with spiritual needs but to help economically and physically as well. Robert and Rose adopted many children whose parents had died from AIDS or who had been abandoned.

The African Powerhouse exists to support the most vulnerable women and children in the Mochengo Village in rural Kenya. The project is currently running a soap making business training vulnerable women in the skill of soap and hand sanitizer making. These are then sold in the marketplace, providing them with an income to support themselves and their families. They also have a women's soccer team and a primary school for the vulnerable children in the area.

This project was established to support vulnerable women and children in the Kisumi Village. It currently runs training courses in tailoring and small business development for vulnerable women. Once trained, the women establish and run their own small tailoring businesses which provides them with an income to financially support themselves and their families.

The support of emerging Christian leaders with Operation Mobilization (OM) is the key objective of this project. Without the ability to create a local base for supporting key people, this program will always struggle to survive. Even though the leaders are quite young there are opportunities for this to work. It is not uncommon for both male and female young people to have their own animals. The barrier is being able to get the initial animals as many of the families have huge numbers of children as men have multiple wives. Children are under severe pressure to drop out of school to assist their families economically by herding the cattle or the girls are married off so they cease to be an economic burden. This project will give young people much more control of their own destiny.

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.

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.

The brick kilns in Pakistan are notorious for child labour and human slavery. More than one million children are working in the brick kilns just in Punjab alone. They do not go to school and are illiterate. Many are forced into early marriages, especially the girls. It is a hard life and our partners there want to see things change and set people free. Education is an important part of the solution.

For many years there has been a movement of Afghan people into Pakistan as a result of the ongoing, chronic unrest in the country. Peshawar is one of the main places that Afghan refugees settle. Many of these people are uneducated and unable to fend for themselves, and so become very vulnerable, especially the young women.

The IN Tertiary Scholarship programme 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.

Masoyi Home Based Care is the response of Florence Mbokazi and her team to the large numbers of people in the community who are affected by HIV / AIDS. Volunteers visit house bound patients to encourage, assist and care for them.

Despite the fact that Rwanda is more developed than most African countries, there is still great poverty and a violent, abusive underbelly. Those that suffer the most in this environment are the young people, especially the young women. Youth Renewed Ministry plans to help these girls by providing scholarships for them to attend a vocational training school and obtain a skill.

The earthquake that struck Syria on 6th February 2023 caused widespread devastation, leaving many people without homes, basic necessities, and access to education. Children are particularly vulnerable in this situation, as they have lost their homes and schools, and their education has been disrupted. Many of these children have not had the opportunity to continue their education due to the lack of resources and facilities available in their communities.

For a number of years Touch Africa Now has been developing ministry in the Nyakagando area. This is an area of great need, most of the local people are DR Congo and South Sudanese refugees, and the girls and women are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. They want to develop small income generating activities for the most vulnerable.

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 how to set up care programmes. Doris initially identified 36 vulnerable orphaned children who live in this border area and who went to her church.

Samfya Bible School has been preparing Christian leaders since 1940 and is a key provider of training in the Luapula Province of Zambia. However recently a need has been identifed for a ministry to youth. The extension program aims to teach church leaders about youth programs and how to handle youth, but they had no ministry actually reaching young people.

Fountain of Hope is a faith based organization run by Gideon and Jennifer 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.

The city of Vanadzor was a large chemical production city in the Soviet era. In 1988 there was a huge earthquake in the area that killed tens of thousands of people. The area has not recovered and people are living in extreme conditions. There are many living in ramshackle containers, there are many disturbed and uneducated children and families struggling to survive.

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.

Zahle is the city in the heart of the Be'qaa Valley. This has been a troubled hot spot for many years during the internal conflicts in Lebanon and latterly the war in Syria. Izdihar became aware that there were many poor families living in the community who were struggling to make ends meet. They were having babies and these babies were not being cared for because the parents did not have either the resources or the knowledge required. This resulted in much infant mortality, malnutrition and chronic illness.

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 is 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.

Heirs of Grace is a ministry established by Antonia Yalta, a Segadores missionary, to help forgotten (or neglected) children in tribal communities. Antonia joined Segadores in 1996 and through her cross-cultural experiences, she felt God's call to enter a ministry of sharing God's love to children of exploited and forgotten tribal villages of the jungle.

Cristina works alongside Antonia Yalta (PER10) and is involved in delivering training and programmes to the Amazon tribal children and their families.

The places the hill tribe people of Thailand live in are hard places. They are steep and difficult. The land they use for farming is subject to erosion and drought. They are a long way from towns and cities and they eke out an existence. They have little infrastructure and development. In general, life is tough, very tough.

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.

In the heart of Lira, a large town in Northern Uganda, there is a remarkable story of resilience and recovery. At Hope Restoration Centre two sisters, Penninah Okello and Anna Ocen, provide refuge and support to a group of 29 children who have emerged from the shadows of a tumultuous past.

For a number of years Joyce Lubari was concerned with the number of young people in their community who leave school and who cannot get employment. Many young people manage somehow to complete secondary school, but what then?

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.

In 2010 Roy and Sarah Nyirenda were challenged by the number of deaf children in the community where they live who were being dumped by their parents. They decided to adopt some of these children as their own, as they had nowhere else to go.

Gideon and Jennifer have been living in and working with the community of Mthombothemba since the early 2000's. In the process of doing so they have discovered many vulnerable children; orphans, abused and abandoned children and children affected by the high levels of poverty in the community. They have brought a number of them into a secure home to better care for them.

Bunia Central Prison has approximately 1,200 people incarcerated, with men, women and children all in the same prison. Some of the children were born in prison. Jacqueline Atido and her team go into the prison every Saturday and conduct a Bible study as well as providing Christian counseling to any who need particular help and prayer.

There are many vulnerable children in the Katanga Province of the DRC, in particular in Likasi, a mining city of about half a million people. A group of Christians have decided to care for as many of these abandoned children as they can with their own resources. Currently there are about 50 children being assisted.

There are many issues in Beni and Bunia, primarily because it is a volatile area with many stake-holders. There is little hope that the major conflicts will end in the near future but even if they do, there are many traumatized people with little chance of resuming life without some form of assistance to do so.

The people of this community are rubbish collectors. They pick through the rubbish bins and skips on the streets of Helwan City, take it home and sort it out. They then try to make a living from selling it to recyclers. It is tough work, it is filthy work. Their whole community smells of rubbish. This is where they live, work and die. It is home to thousands of people.

There are huge numbers of poor in Cairo. It is a hub for the poor and for countless generations for refugees. They are spread right throughout the city.

There are tens of thousands of refugees in Cairo. They come from around the Middle East and Sudan. Currently NB regularly meets with a group of refugees from Syria and Sudan. They are Muslim families that have no one to turn to on arrival in Egypt.

Soul Salvation Church in the city of Assiut is one of the largest, most influential churches in Upper Egypt. It is non-denominational and has many ministries including a vocational training centre. The two aspects involved in this partnership are a sewing centre and two education tutoring centres.

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.

Every year around 50 children graduate from the Mathare Valley Secondary School.These young people are living in a squalid, unsafe environment and during the 9 month gap between sitting their exams and starting their training many of them fall into trouble. Camp Moriah is a six month discipleship programme which takes these young people away from Mathare Valley.

Antonia is involved in frequent visits to Amazon tribal children and missionary children in the Peruvian 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.

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.

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.

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.

Since 2004 Chuenjit has been working with highly 'at-risk' young people (14-17 year olds) in the Youth Detention Centre north of Bangkok. She visits three times per week and conducts Bible studies as well as teaching them basic life skills.

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 drunkenness, abuse and very few children were going to school. Timothy and Janepher wanted to do something so sent some teachers to this village to start a school.

Rosemary Daka and her late husband Lonard have been church planting in this area of Zambia for about 35 years. As they developed churches they were swamped by the needs of the vulnerable children and their guardians. They started 'Chifundo' to care for the children, to resource and encourage the guardians, to get the children into school and assist the community.

Kamatipa, a small rural village of several hundred located in the Copperbelt of Zambia, is home to many orphaned children who are in desperate need of food, clothing, bedding and assistance with school fees. Kamatipa is on the outskirts of Chingola and is in a very remote area. Many children are unwell due to lack of food.

Rebecca Kaumba is s retired lady who lives in Chivuma. In the church she used to attend in Chingola, Lulamba CMML, she has a number of friends. One of them, Elizabeth Palata, 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 did and found there were more than 20 children. Bright Hope World now assists these children to go to school.

Disabled people are often an unreached people group because they are usually thrown out of home due to the belief that they are cursed and will bring a curse to families. Normally the father will leave the family and the mother is left to look after these children but they have no ability to look after them well in terms of finance or skills so often children are just left alone.

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.

The team at GLO Bible College realised there was a need to re-evaluate the way they relate to the local church and their vision is to "Equip the church for the future".

The rural areas around Chipata are very poor and have increasing issues each year as the climate seems to be getting drier and drier. The HIV/AIDS pandemic there has also created a number of orphaned children in the area.

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.

Gideon and Jennifer have developed many networks and key relationships which has allowed them to have a significant impact in this community. This partnership focuses on getting the most vulnerable children in the community into school and feeding them once a day, providing goat loans to families of vulnerable children so they can afford to send their own children to school and training local communities in Foundations for Farming methods and mind sets.

The Christian communities of Egypt have traditionally been poor, especially in Upper Egypt. Most are daily workers and they usually only get seasonal work. Life is tough for them, made more difficult by the fact that they are an oppressed minority. They have few or no resources to fall back on and the church is their community. This partnership is about developing a loan fund from which people can borrow to start up small enterprises and so lift themselves out of poverty.

There are many young people in Ethiopia whose sight has been severely compromised. There are many reasons for this, poor eye care, rural accidents, mineral deficiencies and congenital problems. All the ones on this programme developed eye issues as children or young people.

Nguluni is a small town east of Nairobi. It is open grassland, very dry and short of water. Many of the people are very poor and resort to collecting ground water for their needs. By the end of the dry season only mud is left in the pools, the water is contaminated, crops have failed and the people are even more hungry. Like many parts of Kenya, HIV/AIDS is rampant. Many schools are substandard.

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.

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.

Rehema Ministry currently focuses its ministry to equip vulnerable children with basic education at primary school level. While the present support programme is extremely valuable to the parents/caregivers and children, offering a secondary school chance for these vulnerable children would be an incredible help as it will lead them to a vocation that will sustain them in life and keep them away from the danger of going onto the street where their future may be completely ruined.

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.

The Cula river remains the only water system close to the population of Chikera town. During the rainy season the river overflows, sweeping away everything in its path, and presents a high risk of drowning for adults and children who go there to fetch water.

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.

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.

This project is a small scale income generation activity to support the vulnerable in the community in which Pastor Bob lives and pastors a church. The church has been assisting vulnerable widows and children to get to school and start up small businesses with some success but they desire to start their own income generation to increase the resources available.

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.

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.

Pangani is an extremely undeveloped area with few schools. A local church has been established and is growing strongly with more than 100 people baptised in the last two years. The community has asked for a school so the leadership of CFC-CCM have decided to develop one despite having few resources.

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.

Oliver Mulenga and a few of his close friends became concerned at the number of children that were living on the streets of Kalulushi, a town in the Copperbelt of Zambia, so he took action.

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. A number of children are being helped into school, and the children are visited to ensure they are doing well. Our partner is also training key community members in Foundations for Farming, so that they can start to train and disciple the community.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Chibale Chola lives in the remote rural village of Kaishe where 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 originally discovered 193 orphans and registered them into the organisation.

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.

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.

The pressures of 12 years of national mismanagement and the impact of HIV / AIDS has ripped the heart out of the community of Norton. There are now large numbers of widows that are HIV+ and many, many orphans and vulnerable children. It is these vulnerable women and children that are the focus of this partnership.

At Vimbai Primary School in Norton is a resource unit for 27 physically and intellectually challenged children. The children are not well treated by the other children or even the teachers. They have few resources, many need wheelchairs and other specialised equipment and the parents are not well able to provide it.