#ICCMCongo 🇨🇩️ This is the goats project at Linda Stryker Academy in DRC. When the goats are ready for sale, they are sold and the money is used to help orphaned and very poor children’s school fees.
Posted by International Child Care Ministries on Monday, October 29, 2018
The Cost of Fighting Hunger
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.
Want to help eliminate hunger around the world? Click below to fight hunger.
ICCM Haiti Projects
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.
2018-2019 ICCM Christmas Giving Guide
It’s our honor at ICCM to participate in God’s liberating work among His beloved poor and those sometimes referred to as His “cherished missing.” Our focus is on impoverished children.
Some of these children risk being trafficked and literally imprisoned. Our words and actions can protect them from exploitation.
Many children born into poverty have never known anything but oppression. They have no hope of an education, no sense of their own infinite worth, no idea that God could look on them with favor. These children are blind to their own value. When the good news comes with loving actions, it brings sight — their lives are brought into broad daylight, their eyes seeing new possibilities.
The Giving Guide is filled with ways for you to expand ICCM’s positive impact on children. We hope the pictures and projects will capture your imagination, giving new sight to your eyes. Maybe you’ll envision your contribution alleviating children’s medical needs, blessing them with farm animals, preventing trafficking or improving the hostel where they live. Whatever you can give will proclaim good news in all its beautiful and practical expressions.
Warm Heart of Africa – Malawi
In southeastern Africa where three major countries meet, there is a long, thin, landlocked country affectionately referred to as “The Warm Heart of Africa”. The country is Malawi – and they’ve earned that name because Malawians are some of the friendliest people you will ever meet.
If you are ever privileged to meet Rev. Annie Mdazyola, you will agree. Rev. Annie is the ICCM National Coordinator in Malawi, who is currently providing compassionate oversight for the children benefitting from sponsorship and scholarship.
Initially, ICCM Malawi sponsorship focused on assisting the children of pastors. We continue to do this for 40 pastors. However, in the last several years, we have slowly and steadily expanded the reach of ICCM to include several initiatives, including sponsoring orphans, reintroducing animal projects, and helping local churches strengthen their community preschool programs.
Rev. Annie is in regular communication with the superintendents of the three Free Methodist Church (FMC) conferences in Malawi, working with them to identify effective ways of meeting the needs of our own FMC children and reaching out into the community. In the past year, ICCM has partnered with the church to provide over 30 goats to needy families as a way of supplementing their diets with milk as well as supplying manure for their gardens.
This year we will begin providing goats to FMC nursery schools that are meeting a vital need for early childhood education and evangelism in surrounding communities. The Mwayiwathu Study Center and Nursery School are located along the Malawi and Mozambique border. It is being supervised by the Malawi FMC’s own cross-cultural missionary.
Malawians face many challenges on a daily basis, one of the most critical being that of access to food. Malawi often seems to be caught between either flooding or drought, both resulting in crippling food shortages. ICCM, partnering with the Board of Bishops, has been able to provide relief food supplies for our sponsored families, helping them to manage through the most difficult times.
Feeding the Hungry in Togo
Elisha (pronounced El-Ä“sha) is a young woman being used by the Lord to bring relief to children in the Adidogome neighborhood of Lome in Togo. At church, Elisha noticed many of the younger children often cried and disturbed their mothers because they were hungry. She talked to her dad, Superintendent Rev. Fosseh Takpale, who is also ICCM National Church leader of Togo, about this situation.
Dosseh encouraged Elisha to share her vision of how to help in a letter to people in and outside the church. After Elisha did that, people began to give money. With the help of Cecille and Christel, two women from the church, Elisha prepares food each week for 20+ children. They usually serve rice with either chicken, fish or beans. Sometimes they enjoy their more traditional food of Akume (made from corn paste) and fish.
Elisha, who is 12, says, “I love kids. … I want to give a chance for poor children to enjoy good food. It is a way also to bring unbelieving children into the church.” Elisha, an ICCM sponsored child, plans to keep this ministry going for as long as the Lord provides. She hopes when these children grow up and become parents, they too will support this kind of ministry.
(This original story can be found in the Missions Alive! study of West Africa 2015-2016. Learn more about this children’s study program at fmwm.org/childrens-resources.)
