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In 2018, $43,239.46 was given for animals which included the following: hens, roosters, rabbits, turkeys, pigs, goats, sheep, cows and water buffalo. Animals benefit children at ICCM schools and projects in several of the 33 countries where ICCM has work.
#ICCMBrazil 🇧🇷 Ninth grade graduation was held in the (miracle) gymnasium at our ICCM school in Monte Santo, Brazil. Ninth grade is the conclusion of “Fundamental” education in Brazil. Although it is not a certainty yet, we plan for many of these ninth graders to be able to continue their education in the tenth grade as of February.
Almost all the pieces are in place with the Government of Bahia for the school to begin offering tenth grade in 2019. (Continued prayer appreciated on this point.)
Posted by International Child Care Ministries on Monday, December 17, 2018
Haiti
Half the population of Haiti is undernourished, earning less than $1 a day. ICCM provides school lunches for about 20,000 children, both sponsored and unsponsored.
A meal for a child in Haiti is 25 cents.
A $10 gift will serve 40 children.
India
In India, 38% of children are stunted due to chronic undernourishment. Gifts to the India Rice Fund supply essential nutrition to children living in residential care and to HIV/AIDS-impacted children in ICCM centers.
A meal for a child in India is 45 cents.
A $20 gift will serve 44 children.
Burundi
Donations bring relief to one of the world’s hungriest countries through the distribution of Busoma, a highly beneficial whole food cereal.
A meal of Busoma for a child is 11 cents a meal.
A $10 gift will serve 91 children.
This program receives financial assistance through other sources as well. Of the three food funds this fund is well supported.
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We are extremely excited to premiere a new video about our #ICCMHaiti Food Fund đź‡đź‡ą and our partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects. Please share! đź’š
Give to the Haiti Food Fund: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiFood
Give to Haiti Tree Projects: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiTrees
Give to Haiti Animal Projects: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiAnimalsVideo: Nick Beardslee
Rex Bullock Craig Erickson Iccm-Haiti Sponsorship
Posted by International Child Care Ministries on Tuesday, December 11, 2018
The short-term, urgent need is for school lunches provided by the Haiti Food Fund. Just 25 cents feeds a child!
To invest in longer-term solutions, you can give to our Haiti Tree Projects, in which we’re planting tens of thousands of fruit trees and other plants in our schools and at the homes of sponsored children in partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects.
We now also have managed Animal Projects, which demonstrate new ways of raising goats and chickens to benefit the school children and their families, as well as the environment.
Click on the video, share it widely and help us raise critically needed funds to come alongside Haiti in its chronic food insecurity.
In late October the government inspectors visited our school in Monte Santo, Bahia, Brazil. One of them is holding the more than 300 pages of documents required to make the final application.
The inspectors were satisfied that the documentation can now be submitted to the State government. It may then be approved, or there may be physical modifications to the school or other changes required before they can begin offering 10th grade. So far as we know, 10th grade in February is still a possibility. It is urgently needed. It’s still difficult and relatively rare for children in in the Monte Santo area to complete high school. Pray for this process to be accomplished to God’s glory and for the benefit of the children.
Mondale Perkins Oscar, National Coordinator ICCM-Haiti, reports, “We will never stop praying for our sponsors who are very precious to us. The sacrifice they make every day to contribute to the lives of so many little ones in Haiti is priceless. With eyes of faith, they know whenever they invest in the life of a child, they do it for the Kingdom of God.
“The degrading situation of the country forces many people to seek refuge in other countries. At first, it was Brazil with open doors. Even people who had a status – a good job and houses, left the country, to escape the bad management of our leaders. Now many are heading for Chile.
“ICCM pays the price. Many of our teachers who were recruited by ICCM, who participated in seminars ICCM organized, who worked in our schools, left without even a note of apology. So, we are always in a perpetual restart.
“Our secondary students are also among those leaving the country. They are young to decide. But, once they have their parents’ permission, they just leave.
“Men and women, young and adult, when they find an opportunity, they leave everything, they go.”
According to a Wall Street Journal article (Jan. 21, 2018) 105,000 Haitians entered Chile in 2017. About 49,000 Haitians entered Chile in 2016. They enter Chile on tourist visas. Then, if they get jobs they can apply for work visas and eventually residency.
Pray for the ICCM Haiti team, the church, and schools who are dealing with the loss of those who are leaving Haiti.
Facts about refugees:
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Water filters are received with joy by communities in creative access countries!
For several years I have been looking for an opportunity to visit Cantinho da Vovó Naná (Grandma Nana’s Corner – named after the woman who donated the original house and land), in Ibirité, Minas Gerais, Brazil. My opportunity came in August. This child development center is also located in an area plagued by drug trafficking. Grandma Nana’s Corner is a place of refuge. The children are offered excellent nutrition, age-appropriate education by a caring staff, and the knowledge of our Savior, Jesus Christ. This is another ministry where a child’s participation greatly reduces his or her risk of sexual abuse and forced labor in drug trafficking. Sponsorship for these at-risk children changes their world.
I spent two days at Todo Mundo Feliz (Everyone’s Happy) in late August. This top-notch child development center was started by the Mirandopolis Free Methodist Church in São Paulo, Brazil. It was deliberately established right on the edge of a slum area where drug traffickers are the law. Todo Mundo Feliz (TMF) was begun in 2002. It later gained funding through the local municipality of Santo André and now also has a partnership with ICCM as a Connected Community with Cape Coral Community Church (FL). At the time of my visit, 151 children were enrolled, not a few of whose parents are involved with drugs. Younger children spend the whole day at TMF. Older children spend half a day, and the other half attending public school.
While visiting the classrooms, I talked with the children and answered their questions. One afternoon I put puzzles together with 3-year-olds for maybe 15 minutes. A teacher of one little boy who talked with me remarked, “He hardly ever talks to anyone!” The meals are wonderfully nutritious. I ate my lunch right along with the children. (I love the way rice and beans are seasoned in Brazil.) The good health and mental development the children enjoy can, in many cases, be directly attributed to the healthy meals and loving care they receive at Todo Mundo Feliz.
Valquiria was among a group of adolescent girls peppering me with questions just before classes began one morning. Valquiria suffers the effects of Albinism – the absence of the pigment melanin in her skin. This condition is especially challenging in the dry, hot climate, 10 degrees south of the Equator, where the sun shines in punishing brilliance nearly every day. Valquiria needs a prescription lotion to protect her skin. Several times this has been supplied through gifts from her sponsor. In this recent photo, she is pictured with other students receiving gifts from sponsors and the school’s assistant director. Because of sponsorship, Valquiria studies at our ICCM school, which is readily recognized as the best in the region. The students are taught to value, respect and love each other. Your prayers for her are much appreciated, especially because her father recently passed away after a three-year battle with cancer. It was a delight to learn both the director and assistant director of our school were themselves sponsored through ICCM. Every sponsorship of a student at our Monte Santo school is an answer to prayer.