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 to grow the church in towns and villages throughout Bolivia.

Eli and Raquel Antelo have undergone training at the Bible School in Camiri and have now moved to the town of San Juan del Pirai with the intention of establishing a church there. This partnership will provide the funds necessary for them to purchase a carpentry shop as an income generating business.

There are a number of key people involved in the development of new churches in Northern Ethiopia. It is important to continue developing and encouraging them so 3 to 4 training sessions per year are organised for the church planters and for existing and emerging church leaders. These give them new skills and develop them so they can be more effective in the difficult circumstances in which they live.

There are many widows living on the streets of Ethiopian cities. In Gondar our partners have done something about it. They approached the local council to identify some of the most vulnerable elderly people. They were allocated 58 and in partnership with the local Council, who designated a building, each day the widows come from begging on the streets for a meal.

At the heart of the Ethiopia partnership is the desire to grow the church in Northern Ethiopia. This growth is two-fold, to see existing leaders develop more skills and to empower them, and to facilitate the establishment of churches in new areas by sending out and equipping people to plant new churches.

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.

Asezo is one of the poorest parts of the city of Gondar. Many people live there and in that mix, many vulnerable old people try to survive. Many are disabled or blind and there is no social welfare programme to care for the poor.

Life in rural villages and towns in Ethiopia is not easy, especially for the elderly. Many find themselves unable to look after themselves and take to the streets, begging to survive. This programme aims to give these elderly people some dignity in the last days of their lives and to keep them nourished.

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.

Vidya Sagar is a Christian entrepreneur. In this instance he has started producing balm for sale to Christian workers. They then on sell 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.

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.

Along the Indo Myanmar border there is a great deal of poverty and neither government has effective policies to deal with the underlying issues. Bright Hope Nagaland (BHN) has a clear strategy and has already started implementing it. Their focus is the health of the poor after running a number of medical clinics along the border.

This partnership involves the establishment of a micro-loan programme to provide poor, unemployed and widowed villagers the opportunity to develop small scale income producing enterprises focusing primarily on chicken, goat and pig farming, growing produce for sale, or small shops (e.g. tailoring or tea shops). Naya Bihani means "new morning", a name our partners chose to point to a new day, a new beginning and a new hope for the people involved in the programme.

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.

Bob Abdalla 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.

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.

There is an acute shortage of clean accessible water in Nyamasore village and the people depend on Lake Victoria as their main and only source of water for all their domestic needs. About 10 years ago the lake was easily accessible and the water was clean enough for human consumption. However, it has now been covered by water hyacinth which makes it hard to access the clean water.

For many years the church in Kisumu has had to deal with poor families and children. Currently there are around 20 children being assisted with education costs which is a large burden for the church. Part of the solution to this is to empower some women and to start up a small business where they can sell embroidery products and food items.

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.

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.

Ambovombe Androy is deep in the South of Madagascar on the coast. It is regarded as one of the poorest places on the country. The majority of the people depend on relief and are deeply entrapped in inter-generational cycles of poverty.

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.

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.

There are many communities in Nepal that are not developing and in which there are inadequate facilities and incentives to grow. Nawal Parasi was developed to provide opportunities for agriculture and medical growth by the Ray of Hope Society.

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 focused on 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.

For two years BHW has been supporting sewing training courses near to Faisalabad. This project is to enable the women who have been trained to sew to earn a better living for their families by sewing garments for sale.

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.

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.

For a number of years BHW has been supporting a sewing programme in Rawat township. Many women have been trained to sew and now are able to support their families because of this. As well, at the request of the community, adult literacy classes were run, mainly to help the local Christian adults to learn to read. On the back of these two successful programmes the young people in Rawat have asked for a computer training programme.

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).

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.

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 Cecilia have two childen.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Vision Thailand is the coordinating body for a growing church planting movement among the poor and unreached in Thailand. They are focused on training and long term mentoring of new national leaders who build small, largely self-sustaining churches that replicate themselves.

In the East of Uganda two existing loan programmes have been successful and a number of participants now want to take out larger loans that have extended repayment periods.

Many refugees in Uganda live in extreme poverty, made worse by the fact the homes they are allocated are in the rockiest places meaning they are unable to grow crops.

This micro-loan programme assists local women, widows and single parents to support their families by establishing and growing their small businesses.

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.

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.

BHW has been partnering with Emmanuel Mission for a number of years and various programmes have been initiated. They have proved to be a very reliable partner and they have worked very faithfully in the various endeavours. A number of new initiatives have recently been proposed to BHW. This partnership is to establish a loan fund in Uganda to develop various projects from there, rather than for each one of them to have to come back to BHW for approval and facilitation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

Samfya Bible School is a key provider of training in the Luapula Province of Zambia. Every year they train about 30 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.

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.