Skip to main content

Hope Homes Report 2009
















Mike Bond of Basking Ridge, NJ. showing Hope Home children in Mzuzu their imags during WorldHope Corps Mission Trip to Malawi in May 2009.

Hope Home Report

We are now caring for over 100 OVC even though only 60 children are registered in the program.  Food provisions were spread over the months since you had graciously warned me to prepare for a hard dry patch.  We, however, made efforts to raise an addtional $158 to suppliment your efforts among us, and we still were able to have three church picnics.


The goal of Hope Hope Program is to help Orphan and Vulnerable Children and Youth survive and realize at least 5 hopes of every child for:

nutrition
health
safety
security
education






Hope Home Children receive new clothes made by women 
enrolled in Hope Tailoring School which started this year.


Hope Scholarship Report:

All our children and youth year for aid toward school fees, though it will not be easy for us to provide for everyone at once.  We hope to continue supporting 19 students next year, as we did this year.


The Hope Scholarship Program is a noble gateway to
  • Higher learning
  • Good employment
  • Leadership development
  • Encountering God and walking in His company




Hope Tailoring School:

The 9 women in the program have made very attractive progress.  The skirts they are holding in the photo is the third round of skirt making.  Their skills are increasingly getting better at every hairpin turn.  They have grasped the opportunity with soncsuming enthusiasm ready to make the best of it.  Next on the list is making blouses and shirts so that evenutally they are able to sew complete outfits.

Hope Tailoring Program is a good tool to
  • Relieve their broken hopes of illiterate women
  • revitalize and empower the lives of young women
  • Energize them to generate some income 
  • Empower them for productive social and spiritual life
  • Support the Hope Home food program


The challenges of the Hope Tailoring School are as follows:

1. Need for industrial quality sewing machines.  We are forced to make due with 3 inadequate machines for ann incresing number of students.   The type of sewing machines we need are particularly good and unique. They are both manual and electric Singer machines available only in Blantyre--Malawi's commercial and industrial city where we have a major sewing industry in the South.   They are not available here in the North.  They are so durable and best suited to our vision to train hundreds of women including those in rural areas. They are the kind of machines that can be used with or without electricity.  They are so durable that there is very little danger of regular repairs as long as they are properly checked on a regular business. Hence the high cost.  Approximately US $500 each.

2.  Suitable fabric for skirts and blouses is very costly and hard for the school to supply.  We need about US $750 for the next few months.   However, we managed to raise US $285 from the local church to pay for buttons, zippers, pins, stiffeners, elastic, oil, needles and binding. 

3.  Instructor's allowances is very exepensive.  We pray that you may assist us in finding US $1.000 to pay for the instruction between now and May.

Our Annual Budget (and Need) for  Hope Scholorships and Tailoring School for 2010  is as follows:

School Fees for 19 students:    $9,400
Tailoring School for 9 women    6,750
Transport                                     500
Local admin costs                         300

TOTAL:                         US $16,950







Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

Let the River Flow: Why WorldHope Corps digs village wells

  Sunday Sermon at the The Water's Edge in OB , San Diego, CA. "Woman at the Well" (John 4:7-15) When you think about the gospel story of the Samaritan woman with Jesus at Jacob’s well, I’d like you to picture this Woman at a similar well in northern Malawi. Sitting and talking with Pastor Dennis Singini about water. Her name is Nyang'oma, which means "drum." Her Christian name is Mary Botha. She is 85 years old and lives in a village in the Kampenda area of Northern Malawi. She has cared for 11 children, two of whom have died. And her husband has died. When Dennis and I first met Mary in 2008, her village did not have a deep well or access to clean water. Nor did the six surrounding villages with over 1,500 people. Women and children had to drink with animals from shallow seasonal wells or walk about of 5km away to drink from the closest stream. Sometimes they would get sick and complain of stomach aches. Cholera and dysentery were widespread, and m...
Read more

Not Afraid of Death by Julia Esquivel

In reading your blog, Michael, I immediately think of these two poems is poem by Julia Esquivel, from Guatemala, whom I had the pleasure of meeting years ago.  Un abrazo, Ada Maria I AM NOT AFRAID OF DEATH I am no longer afraid of death I know well Its dark and cold corridors Leading to life. I am afraid rather of that life Which does not come out of death, Which cramps our hands And slows our march. I am afraid of my fear And even more of the fear of others, Who do not know where they are going, Who continue clinging To what they think is life Which we know to be death! I live each day to kill death; I die each day to give birth to life, And in this death of death, I die a thousand times And am reborn another thousand Through that love From my People Which nourishes hope! THREATEN WITH RESURRECTION They have threatened us with Resurrection There is something here within us which doesn’t let us sleep, which doesn’t let us rest, which doesn’t stop the pounding deep inside. It is t...
Read more

Twelve New Wells in Malawi in 2012

New Well for Mayaka UMC sponsored by Church of the Resurrection  Villagers in Zomba Mayaka wait their turn for clean water from COR well. WorldHope Corps, Inc. succeeded in drilling 12 new villages wells in 2012, including three for Church of the Resurrection in Leewood, KS; two for World Childrens Fund in San Jose, CA, one for Helen Ford in Ocean Grove, NJ; one for Pittman Presbyterian Church in NJ; and five for local sponsors in Malawi. From 2007-2011, WorldHope Corps drilled a total of 18 wells in northern Malawi by hiring borehole drillers from the southern Malawi.  In April, 2012, we acquired our own well rig and equipment, hired our own crew, and learned how to drill wells ourselves. By the end of 2012, we had drilled 12 new wells for a total of 30 wells since 2007!  Over 50,000 villages now can drink clean, fresh, safe water and not get sick from water borne diseases.  For this we praise God! For 2013, we have 2 more boreholes to drill for Unite...
Read more