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.

In 2014, Efrain was involved in establishing the Camiri Trades Training Institute, an auto-mechanics technical school run as part of the Bible School. He is also very involved at the Bible School, lecturing, and providing technical and administrative support.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 20 vulnerable women. The women establish and run their own small tailoring businesses which provides them with an income to financially support themselves and their families.

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.

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.

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.

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 Joyce Lubari has been 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?

Anna Ocen is currently working with a group of widows and single mothers in Mbale where she lives. In 2005 they started a small loan programme amongst themselves and now need some outside funding to help establish their businesses and take things to the next level.

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.

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.

Zimbabwe's economy is driven by agriculture and the majority of rural people depend on it for their livelihood. About 80% of the rural population live in regions where rainfall is erratic and unreliable, making dry land cultivation a big challenge. The success rate of rain fed agriculture has been known to be in the order of one good harvest in every 5 years. It is to this backdrop that Fountain of Hope would like to continue to improve the quality of life in these regions of Zimbabwe, one village at a time, through increasing household food security.