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.

Two decades of violence in the DRC has left behind millions of deaths, widows, orphans and elderly living alone, and general vulnerability among communities. There are overwhelming numbers of survivors of sexual based violence within communities and church congregations. Recently, the Evangelical Alliance of Congo has identified 90 victims of sexual violence who are living in particularly terrible conditions.

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.

Paulin is a man with a vision. He wants to fight against poverty in his community and see his community escape the vicious cycle of poverty they are in.

In the early 2000's MM and her husband started a Bible study for women. They were asked to go to a Christian family's home to pray for the daughter who had converted to Islam. While there, a neighbour came and asked them to pray, then all the neighbours came, and a Bible study began. For the past 20+ years more than 200 women have been meeting weekly.

Father A has established a house for the poor in a poorer part of Assiut city. Every day except Sunday a group of about 15 women come to the centre to cook 350 meals which are then delivered to the poor.

In this area of Ethiopia there is a large Christian community but very little land available for farming. The Christian leaders are working with the people to obtain land and to train and send young families there so they are able to farm and also to witness to the local people and establish Christian groups.

Spread across six different locations in the middle of Sumatra, this organisation supports poor families with loans to establish small businesses, assists young people to obtain an education, has a preschool/kindergarten for 100 children, and run camps and seminars for young people and leadership development.

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.

Life has never been easy in the Great Lakes area of Africa. The team based here works under the banner of Harvest Partnership but this group has diminishing resources and have a desire to see their key people become bi-vocational and self-sustaining, and not dependent on external resources for their living.

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.

Manara (Lighthouse) International is based in Amman, Jordan. They find themselves in a strategic place, a place of refuge for many displaced people from around the Middle East. They have a particular focus on refugees who make up almost one third of Jordan's population. Refugees have come in the past from Palestine, Kuwait, Egypt and Iraq and most recently people fleeing the turmoil in Syria have sought refuge in Jordan. Manara works to assist them with counselling, friendship, food, clothing and other basic essentials.

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.

Lao Vida focuses on language, vocational, and development assistance as pathways to reaching out to people. They serve both educated urban people and rural young people, both of whom live in bondage to superstition and fear of spirits. This business facilitates the building of relationships and connections in the wider community. A significant part of the staff training and development is given over to teaching how to pass on the abundant life to village communities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 EGM team are constantly looking for ways to assist the poorest among them to become self-sustaining. They have organised sewing projects in other places but not in their own community. This community is huge, the largest Christian community in Pakistan, with tens of thousands of Christian families.

In a country like Pakistan, correspondence courses are an effective means of training. It is not easy for people of other faiths to obtain access to the real story. This is also a useful tool for Christian people to be discipled and nurtured in their faith.

This project is established to train Christian women and girls to develop a skill and the opportunity for income generation. This area is rural and on the border with India and surrounded by military installations. As with other similar projects this will empower a number of women who are poorly educated and who have few options for anything other than a life of servitude.

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.

Severino 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. Severino 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.

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.

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.

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.

For more than 2 years Vicente Enriques was 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.

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.

South Sudan has been gripped by civil war almost continually since it achieved nationhood in 2013. Hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of refugees have fled to neighbouring countries, including Uganda. Uganda now hosts some of the largest refugee camps in the world (near Yumbe and Koboko in the north) and the numbers of refugees grows daily.

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 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 elevate themselves from poverty. It is with these concerns that ITDF is providing assistance. However, these villagers not only need their physical needs met but also their spiritual needs.

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.

There are currently 15 churches in the Faith Harvest Network in the east of Uganda. Many of the people in these churches are poor with few resources or capital to allow them to get out of poverty. In several of the churches they have begun a small loan programme with approximately 120 people. The concept here is to boost this so it becomes available to more people.

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.