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IND12 - Bright Hope Nagaland - Farm Development: Partnership Reports
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Report Date: March 29, 2018
Report from BHW India Partnership Facilitator
In January 2018 Bright Hope World ran a summit in Bangalore for all our Indian and Nepalese partners. This was an amazing time which almost every one of our partners attended. In total we had about 40 people from India and Nepal and another nine from New Zealand, England and the USA.
We prayed this would be a time where our partners met one another (many for the first time), learned from each other, were encouraged in the Lord, and went home inspired to keep serving the Lord in their communities. The Lord answered our prayer.
It was so encouraging, and inspiring, to listen to every partner share their ministry’s story. From those who have been serving in ministry for 30+ years, to those who have just started in the past 18 months, every story impacted this gathering of believers.
Running the conference in Bangalore meant I couldn’t visit each of the partners in their own environment and so I am only able to provide a brief update from each of the partnerships.
Bright Hope Nagaland
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A team of 10 came from Bright Hope Nagaland to the conference. Dr Ajungla Ao (left in photo), Subong Aier (photo below), Dr Sunep and Limala (right in photo) along with some of the doctors and nurses who work with them all came.
Three of the team reported on the work there. Dr Sunep outlined the overall vision of Bright Hope Nagaland, Subong talked a bit about the farm and the development of a pig farmers cooperative which is having a big impact on farmer’s incomes, and then Dr Ajunga talked about the medical work they are involved in, both running camps and the training of nurses to go into rural Myanmar, across the border from India.
BHW’s current involvement is the training of nurses so much of the presentation was about that. They showed photos of the groups of nurses graduating and of the training hospital where they are being trained. They also explained the circumstances the nurses face when they are out in the field. It truly is very basic and the people, especially the women, know nothing about basic hygiene and health. Of course this results in a lot of illness and preventable disease.
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It was great having the team there. They were all very interested in what was going on and engaged well in the discussions.
Prayer Points
1) For the four nurses that are about to graduate from their training
2) The ongoing medical camps that the team runs in various remote locations. It is becoming increasingly expensive to run these and they are all self-funded.
3) Wisdom to know what to do with the farming and pig training
4) The development of the skills training that Subong’s daughter and son-in-law are developing. It is a pity they were not able to attend the conference. This has grown out of the farm project.
