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Your Gifts Provide Real Hope

Together, we’re reaching thousands of the world’s poorest people with your gifts given through World Concern’s Global Gift Guide. We want to update you about how you’re making a difference in their lives, offering them tangible ways to overcome poverty.

Long Term Sustainability

You’re helping transform lives in long-term sustainable ways, by offering a skill or an opportunity to earn an income, enabling those we serve to realize their God-given potential. Lasting change that provides lasting hope.

The 44-Cent Cure

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Gift Report: The 44-Cent Cure

In the Chovae community of Somalia, women and children spent most of their day walking up to 10 kilometers to fetch salty, contaminated water for drinking. Nearly one-fourth of the people in this community suffered from water-borne diseases, including intestinal parasites, making them unable to work or attend school. World Concern provided deworming medication to the children of Chovae to cure them from intestinal worms. We also installed rain water catchment systems that hold up to 144,000 liters of fresh water from the rainy season.

More children are now attending school and dropout rates have lessened as fewer children are sick with intestinal worms. Women no longer have to walk all day to fetch water and are able to work and care for their children. The community members say that God sent them help after struggling for years with sickness from intestinal parasites.

Thank you for helping cure children from parasites with your gift!pi

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Awareness Training For Children

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Gift Report: Awareness Training for Children

With support from donors like you, child trafficking awareness programs are reaching rural schools in Thailand and Cambodia, where children are most vulnerable to being trafficked and exploited.

During a recent visit to one of these schools, a teacher reported an incident that demonstrates the awareness training is working. After school, a man approached a young girl and told her he had been sent by her parents to pick her up and bring her home. The student didn’t know the man and remembered what she’d learned in the training. She refused to go with him, then immediately went and told the teacher. Having been through the training too, the teacher contacted the family. They told her they had not sent anyone to pick up their daughter. The man quickly disappeared.

Your gift is helping protect children like this from the dangers of child trafficking.

Thank you!

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A Backpack For School

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Gift Report: A Backpack For School

Twelve-year-old Phal is one of eight children who live in an abandoned railway station in Cambodia with their parents. Her father is a day laborer and her mother sorts through garbage at the city dump, looking for useful things she can sell for income.

Phal is only in third grade, but she is grateful to be able to attend school. Before this, her school attendance was irregular because her family couldn’t afford tuition and her mother needed her help collecting garbage.

With the help of gifts like yours, Phal was able to return to school with a new backpack, filled with school supplies. “I am very happy for the support,” said Phal. “I will do my best to improve my future.” Phal has a goal of graduating from high school.

Thank you for your gift, which is helping a child like Phal succeed in school.

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Stock a Barnyard

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Gift Report: Stock a Barnyard With Income Producing Animals

Peara (pictured left) was married by the time she was 15 years old and had five children right away. Living in the rural village in Bangladesh where she grew up, the family struggled to earn enough income for food. They couldn’t afford to send their children to school, or buy them clothing.

Peara heard about World Concern’s programs in her area, which assist women to earn income and save money. She joined a microcredit group and received a cow, some chickens and some ducks to start a small farm. She was able to sell milk every day, and her cow soon gave birth to a calf. She used her income to purchase another pregnant cow.

Peara is selling about 10 liters of milk and earning about $9 a day from her farm, which has grown to include four cows. She also has plenty of milk for her children to drink. Two of her children are now attending school—a dream for Peara, who was unable to attend school herself as a child.

Your gift is helping a family like Peara’s overcome the challenges of poverty. Thank you!

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Trained birthing attendants

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Gift Report: Trained Birthing Attendent

Your gift is helping provide training for traditional birthing attendants in rural Laos, where women often give birth alone in huts in the woods. If complications occur, these mothers have no one to help them.

With the help of gifts like yours, 24 people—including two men—were recently trained as birthing attendants in eight villages in the Sekong Province of Laos. They received training by hospital staff from the nearest city, learning how to assist women giving birth, as well as newborn care, the importance of immunizations, nutrition, family health care and how to support new mothers.

Your gift is making a difference in remote, hard-to-reach villages. Thank you!

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Build a school

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Gift Report: Build a School: A class act that lasts

Families continue to flee conflict and hardship near the border between Sudan and South Sudan. The area around Kuajok, South Sudan has been especially hard hit by the poverty and desperation of newly displaced families, arriving with little to no resources.

One impact has been a large influx of children in need of schooling. With few permanent classrooms, it is not uncommon for students to meet under trees. In Kuajok, 30 teachers try to manage 3,000 multi-level students. Without the structure of a classroom, teachers have difficulty keeping order and the children’s attention. Students must bring their own plastic chairs, or sit on the ground, shifting positions throughout the school day to stay under the shade of the tree.

Your gift is helping construct 300 school shelters in South Sudan to accommodate 100 students each. A typical school site has three shelters. The classrooms provide students a cool retreat from the hot sun, and a safe place to concentrate on learning. Thank you for helping make this possible!

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Income and nutrition from chickens

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Gift Report: Income and nutrition from chickens

Dulali (pictured left) was born into an extremely poor family in a rural village in Bangladesh. She was unable to finish school because her family couldn’t afford it, and at 12 years old, she was married to a day laborer.

Dulali had six children, making it difficult to survive on her husband’s meager daily income. Her oldest son dropped out of school and took on a job to help support the family.

When Dulali learned about World Concern’s programs and how she could raise chickens to earn income, she felt a glimmer of hope that her life would improve. She received chicks and business training and started a small poultry farm. She has been raising and selling chickens for a profit, earning an income of about $125 a month.

Four of her children are now able to attend school. “I am very happy that our children are going to school. I believe they will get a good education and have much better lives than ours,” said Dulali.

Your gift is helping transform a life like Dulali’s. Thank you!

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Income and nutrition from a cow

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Gift Report: Income and nutrition from a cow

Thurairasa and his wife (pictured to the left) lost everything in Sri Lanka’s civil war—their livelihood, their home, their whole village. During the fighting, two of their daughters lost their legs. The family was separated and spent years away from each other in displacement camps.

Amazingly, the family was eventually reunited. They graciously adopted a boy who was orphaned from the war. But Thurairasa had nothing to support his family.

“It was during this time when we lost hope that World Concern came into our village,” recalled Thurairasa. “Their goal was to help families who were struggling to rebuild a foundation that would help them build up a stable life. My family was chosen as part of this program and was given a cow, which we could not have purchased ourselves.”

By selling milk produced by their new cow, the family has money again. The encouragement he received provided him the strength to get through devastating times.

Thank you for providing practical help to a family like Thurairasa’s.

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Disaster support for a village

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Gift Report: The long road back: Disaster support for a village

Bullet holes pepper the walls of a vacant concrete structure in the war-torn town of Dhobley, Somalia. The building was once a hospital, but attacks by militia have shut most services down.

This past year, Dhobley became an unofficial camping point for thousands of displaced families, fleeing war and famine in Somalia. These new families—arriving with nothing—put a strain on the community, already ravaged by famine and drought.

Drought is considered a “slow moving” disaster, but it is a disaster nonetheless. Thirteen million people were affected by this drought, making it the worst in the region in 60 years.

With the support of gifts like yours, desperate, hungry families in Dhobley received food, water, medical care and emergency supplies, including blankets, tarps, water jugs, cooking pots, mosquito nets and more.

Your gift is providing hope and practical help to families in a community affected by disaster. Thank you!

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Life-Giving Rainwater from a Djabia

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Gift Report: Life-Giving Rainwater from a Djabia

Saeed Mohammed (pictured left) couldn’t stand watching his beloved children suffer from sickness. All four of them, including 9-month-old Yohya, had frequent stomach aches and diarrhea from drinking contaminated water.

The family lives on Pate Island, near the coast of Kenya, where there are few sources of clean water. What’s available is expensive. Saeed says he typically pays about a fourth of his daily income for a 5-gallon jug of water.

But things improved for families in Saeed’s village when World Concern built a djabia—a large semi-underground reservoir that captures and stores rainwater. A djabia can provide water to an entire community for up to 9 months.

“I can see that this is safe, hygienic water,” said Saeed, whose children are healthier now with clean water to drink. “I believe this project will last a lifetime, and even the next generation will benefit from it.”

Thank you for your gift of clean water and better health for families like Saeed’s.

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Income and nutrition from ducks

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Gift Report: Income and nutrition from ducks

Joz (pictured left) was struggling to support his family in Bangladesh. With no education or skills, they were barely able to buy food on his daily income of about $2. Joz became so hopeless and depressed that he planned to commit suicide.

During this difficult time, a World Concern staff member visited his home, which was on marshy land. Having heard his story, the staff member suggested he consider raising ducks for income and food. His marshy property was perfect for ducks, so Joz received ducks and training to build a successful business.

After six months, the ducklings were full grown and about 150 ducks were laying eggs every day. Joz is able to sell about $11 worth of eggs per day. Today, his income is more than $100 per month.

The family has been able to improve their home, plus feed, clothe and send their two children to school. They are grateful for new values, self-reliance and dignity.

Thank you for your gift, which is providing hope and transformation for a family like this.

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A Year of Learning

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Gift Report: A year of learning

17-year-old Supria (pictured left) dreams of becoming a teacher some day. Her father, a fisherman, passed away when her mother was pregnant with her youngest brother. Supria watched her father make fishing nets and was able to learn this skill herself to help supplement her mother’s income of $6 a month she earns as a maid.

Together with her grandmother, the family lives in a one-room house with no electricity. Supria was unable to attend high school because her mother couldn’t afford it. She wants to be a teacher so she can serve other poor and needy students from her neighborhood.

Through gifts like yours, World Concern paid Supria’s tuition and enabled her to attend a government high school. The headmaster of the school says Supria is an excellent student with a bright future. Recently, she was accepted to college and is well on her way to attaining her dream of becoming a teacher.

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Family Survival Kit

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Gift Report: Family Survival Kit

Amina (pictured left), a widowed mother of five from southern Somalia, watched in horror as her neighbors’ houses were set on fire by armed militia. She feared her home would be next. Then, last summer, tragedy struck again as drought destroyed all her livestock. That’s when her family left their hometown on foot, walking for more than a week in search of food, water and shelter.

“It was a hard life there,” Amina said. “We were starving. We fled to come and look for support.” The left everything they owned behind.

When they reached the border town of Dhobley, Somalia, World Concern gave Amina’s family emergency supplies, including blankets, tarps, mosquito nets, a cooking pot, sleeping mats, a water jug and more. She also received food and water.

Now, Amina has hope that she can begin to rebuild her life. Your gift has brought this hope to a family like Amina’s and enabled them to survive disaster.

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Stock a fish pond with 2,000 fingerlings

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Gift Report: 2,000 fish fingerlings providing income and nutrition

Jahangir Miah (pictured left) worked as a rickshaw driver in Bangladesh, earning a meager income that was never enough to provide for his family. They struggled just to have enough to eat. Jahangir was frustrated and had little hope for the future.

World Concern staff members discovered Jahangir had a small pond on his property that was unused. Jahangir learned that this pond had the potential to provide a good income for his family.

With the help of gifts like yours, he received fish fingerlings to stock his pond, plus business training and support from World Concern. His first few months in business, he made a profit of about $270 a month. His family has moved into a new house and his two children, ages 7 and 4, are going to school. Jahangir is able to feed his family a balanced diet, and his dignity has been restored—he’s now known in his community as a successful fish farmer.

Your gift helped a family like Jahangir’s become self-sufficient. Thank you!

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A kid goat of their own

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Gift Report: A kid goat of their own

11-year-old Berson (pictured left) was born and raised in the rural village of Morency in Haiti. He lives with his parents and four siblings. With few opportunities to break out of the cycle of poverty, the family struggles to pay for basic necessities. Berson’s fees to attend school fell low on the priority list.

Berson received a female goat from World Concern and began earning income from the milk right away. His goat has also given birth to two kids. He sold one of them and earned enough to pay for part of his school fees and supplies. The second kid he chose to give as a gift to a schoolmate named Angelore, who is 14 and also has four siblings. Angelore has high hopes of turning her goat gift into an entire herd so she can afford school and help support her family.

Your gift is blessing children like Berson and Angelore, who now have hope for a better future because they’re able to attend school.

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Spread the Good News with Bibles and Training

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Gift Report: Spread the Good News with Bibles and Training

The village of Endoinyo Narasha, Kenya, has seen much transformation since World Concern began working there. Initially a village without water, sanitation, health care, education, or spiritual support, Endoinyo Narasha was in desperate need of help.

But today, there is a small library, a wind-powered waterhole, livestock, latrines, and happy, educated children.

Recently the local church received a supportive blessing as well—Bibles in the native Maa language. Additionally, wind-up cassette players and Bible audiobooks were given to congregation members who cannot read. Church leaders have received discipleship training and many members are attending Bible classes regularly.

Your gift is helping spread the Good News of Jesus Christ in some of the most remote places in the world, like the village of Endoinyo Narasha. Thank you!

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Immunizations for a child

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Gift Report: Immunizations for a child

Three-year-old Jannath (pictured left) brought joy to everyone in her life—especially her parents. The family struggled after moving from rural Bangladesh to Dhaka in search of work. They worked in a factory for a meager wage and rented a house in a nearby slum.

They had no money for healthcare, but had taken Jannath to a World Concern clinic for immunizations, having learned from the clinic staff that these immunizations would protect Jannath from common but deadly diseases.

During Jannath’s examination at the clinic, the nurse heard something unusual while listening to her heart. The family was referred a hospital where doctors discovered the little girl had a hole in her heart. Thankfully, Jannath was able to be treated and is now healthy.

Her mother, Bithi, has received support from the clinic’s staff, not only to keep her family healthy, but to deal with day to day stresses in her life.

Your gift is helping protect the health of a child like Jannath. Thank you for your generosity.

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Prevent Child Trafficking

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Gift Report: Prevent Child Trafficking with Job Skills

Despite growing up in extreme poverty near the Thailand-Cambodia border, 13-year-old Tharn (pictured left) has much ambition. His circumstances put him at risk of becoming a victim of trafficking. But he’s learning to keep himself safe by attending school regularly and acquiring job skills to earn income safely.

After spending the first half of his day at school, Tharn heads to a vocational training center where he is learning to repair motorcycles—a valuable skill in an area where motorcycles are a primary mode of transportation.

Tharn is already thinking about his future and has hope for a better life than his parents. “I want to have my own motorcycle repair shop when I am 18,” he proclaims with confidence.

Your gift his helping protect a child like Tharn by providing skills for the future.

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A latrine, a vital tool for health

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Gift Report: A latrine, a vital tool for health

Garissa County is a drought-prone region of Eastern Kenya, but when rain comes, the clay and rock beneath the sandy surface prevent rainwater from draining. While the land becomes plentiful in plants, it also begins to swarm with mosquitoes and flies, which spread disease.

There are not nearly enough latrines to serve the nomadic populations that come through here, let alone permanent residents. Existing latrines are roughly-built in shallow pits, overfull, and shared by many members of the community.

World Concern is building hundreds of latrines in the communities of Garissa County. The new latrines are well-built, 20 feet deep, and provide great improvements in hygiene.

Halima Hussein (picutred left) and her 8 children were among the families chosen to receive a new latrine for their home. After living in the community for 10 years, her old latrine had collapsed. “World Concern has built me a toilet without any expense from my side,” she said joyfully. Your gift is helping improve the health of a family like Halima’s.

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New opportunities with a microloan

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Gift Report: New opportunities with a microloan

Mary (pictured left) has had a difficult life from a very young age. At just 7 years old, she fled her village because of the war in Sudan. She was not able to start school until age 11, and was forced to drop out a few years later. She soon married because she was not able to continue with school, and then was hospitalized because of malaria. After recovering, Mary moved back with her family to her village. The family was extremely poor.

Although she had helped her friends start businesses, she never wanted to risk borrowing money for herself because she worried she couldn’t pay it back. But, a business workshop led by World Concern was teaching men and women how to start and grow new businesses. Mary eagerly participated, and received her first loan to start her own business selling embroidered needlework. She made a sale her first day in business.

Mary plans to use the money she earns from her business to ensure her children go to school, and to help her neighborhood. Thanks to your gift, women like Mary have the opportunity for a brighter future.

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Medical clinic visit

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Gift Report: Medical clinic visit

Illnesses like pneumonia and tuberculosis are common in Rina’s slum, located in the heart of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Rina (pictured left) was a carrier of tuberculosis, but didn’t know it. During a visit to a World Concern clinic, the nurse suspected that Rina might have tuberculosis. She tested positive and received medication before becoming ill with the disease.

Not long after, she became pregnant with her fifth child and returned to the clinic for prenatal care. This time, the clinic discovered she had diabetes, so Rina was referred to a hospital where her baby boy was delivered. Her new son was given vaccines at the World Concern clinic to protect him from a number of dangerous diseases.

Now working, grateful, and receiving regular medical treatment, Rina hopes that other poor women will be able to receive life-saving health services as well.

Bless you for your gift to provide medical care for women like Rina.

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Vital support for AIDS orphans

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Gift Report: Vital support for AIDS orphans

Destinvil (pictured left) lives in Haiti and loves to participate in the recreational activities that are offered in his neighborhood. One day, a facilitator asked Destinvil to sign his name, and it was discovered that Destinvil could not write. At 10 years old, he has never attended school.

Destinvil lost his father to AIDS, so he lives with his mother and step-father who struggle to provide basic necessities for him. He often spent time on the streets unsupervised, trying to sell water so he could buy shoes.

With support from gifts like yours, World Concern has enrolled Destinvil in school and is paying his tuition. He and his mother expressed their gratitude for Destinvil being able to attend school, which gives them hope he’ll have a better future with education.

Thank you for helping transform lives like this.

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Break the Silence with Hearing Assistance

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Gift Report: Break the Silence with Hearing Assistance

When Ridoy (pictured left) was diagnosed with hearing impairment at age 2, his mother was devastated. Her older son was also hearing impaired, and she wondered how she would care for two children with special needs. She cried as she recalled how Ridoy could only communicate through gestures as a child, unable to make any sounds.

When she heard about World Concern’s Hear School, she began to have hope. Within a short time from being admitted, Ridoy began pronouncing some words with the help of instruction and hearing aids. As he received loving care from the Hear School teachers, he started speaking in sentences. Neighbors and friends were astonished at the transformation.

Ridoy learned to read and write, and was eventually admitted to a public secondary school. He is now enrolled in a technical school and well on his way to fulfilling his dream of becoming a medical engineer.

Thank you for your gift, which is giving a child like Ridoy hope for a successful future.

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Emergency Food

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Gift Report: Emergency Food to Help Prevent Malnutrition

The world’s newest nation, South Sudan, is also one of the least developed countries. Families live in extreme poverty, struggling to survive and lacking basic necessities.

Right now, ongoing conflict, drought and high food prices have led to a food shortage. In the border region, 85,000 children under age 5 are at risk for severe acute malnutrition.

With the help of gifts like yours, more than 1,600 moms with babies were recently registered to receive Nutributter in six villages in South Sudan. With their registration card they can pick up Nutributter once a month to help prevent malnutrition in their babies, which can have life-long impacts. Nutributter helps infants and toddlers grow and thrive.

Thank you for your gift, which is helping bring life-saving emergency food to a young child in need.

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Income from pigs

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Gift Report: Income from pigs

Daw Lu Nang (pictured left) is the mother of four children, ranging in age from 9 to 17 years old. She has struggled to provide for her children for years. Her two-acre farm barely produced enough corn and rice to feed her family, so she often worked as a laborer on nearby farms to earn enough for food. When her 15-year-old son had to drop out of school, she began to lose hope.

Hope arrived in the form of two pigs, which soon produced seven piglets and a steady income for the family. Her children are once again attending school, and her oldest son is hoping to buy additional farm land for the family once they’re able to sell more piglets.

Daw Lu Nang is grateful for the support. “My dream has come true because of this kind of assistance,” she said. “It is not enough to say thank you. I am hopeful my family and other poor families will improve our standard of living in the future.”

Thank you for your gift, which is helping transform lives like Daw Lu Nang’s!

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Sack Garden

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Gift Report: Sack Garden

Khadidja (pictured left) is a 42-year-old mother of six. She fled the Darfur genocide in 2008 and found herself in a refugee camp in Chad. Among the many challenges in the camp, Khadidja, a life-long gardener, had no land to grow food. She was forced to buy vegetables at inflated prices in the market, which skyrocketed during the dry season. In Chad, even finding seeds to plant was a challenge.

World Concern gave Khadidja the opportunity to grow a sack garden, using the small space she had. Planting vegetables in tall sacks kept chickens away from her harvest, and best of all, she was able to use kitchen wastewater to water her garden. Khadidja was impressed at how well her sack garden produced.

“Now, I eat fresh vegetables whenever I want. I even have enough to share with my nearest neighbors,” she said. “I’m really excited to try expanding my garden and adding new vegetables.”

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Dressed for success with a school uniform

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Gift Report: Dressed for success with a school uniform

Kim (pictured left) is the middle child in his family, living in a poor village in Cambodia. His mother is a single parent who struggles to provide food and necessities for Kim and his siblings. Kim admits that most days, getting food is more important than school.

Kim’s school required him to have a uniform, which his mother couldn’t afford. He had an old one, but wearing it made him feel ashamed. Kim was becoming very discouraged having to miss so many days of school, and fell even further behind.

A new uniform brought new hope to Kim and his family. He’s now attending school regularly and his grades have improved. Kim’s mother also received a business loan and training so she can support her family better in the future.

Thank you for your gift, which is helping ensure a student like Kim has a new uniform for school.

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Soccer Balls for Self-Confidence

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Gift Report: Soccer Balls for Self-Confidence

There’s no question, physical activity is good for children. In places like rural Kenya, children will invent their own toys and things to play with to keep occupied.

At Lekanka Hills primary school, the focus has been on classrooms, teacher salaries, latrines, book and supplies. Things like physical education have taken a back seat.

Students of Lekanka Hills recently received soccer balls and equipment from World Concern. Children can be seen playing with them after school as a regular extracurricular activity. Sounds of joy and excitement erupt from the playground as the game unites friends and encourages exercise.

The soccer balls have been so beneficial that the school administration has decided to build a soccer pitch complete with goal posts. The school will also begin participating in an annual inter-school competition, thanks to the foundational skills students gained using the donated balls.

Your gift is helping children like these build important social skills and stay healthy.

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Solar Panels to Brighten Lives

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Gift Report:Solar Panels to Brighten Lives

Thilagarani was a young working mother when shells starting falling on her village during the Sri Lankan civil war. Her husband was killed and she spent the next several years fleeing violence and moving from camp to camp.

When the war ended, Thilagarani tentatively returned to her land to start over, but found the village devastated. Making matters worse, she lived in constant fear, believing that God had forsaken them. Security in her village was gone—especially at night when it became dark.

When World Concern started working in her village, staff members understood the threat many war widows were facing. Criminals knew these resettled villages were easy targets in the dark.

Thilagarani now has solar panels to keep her home and the whole neighborhood lit and safe through the night. She feels much safer, and her daughter (pictured at left) can study into the evening by solar lighting. Thank you for your gift!

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Startup Kit for a Successful Business

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Gift Report: Startup Kit for a Successful Business

Twenty-five-year-old Ibrahim Ousman (pictured left) exhausted himself trying to earn enough income to support his extended family members, who are refugees living in Eastern Chad. After his father was killed, Ibrahim fled Darfur with his mother and brothers. When they arrived in the Djabal camp in eastern Chad, they were given food and a few other items, but knew this temporary aid would not sustain them.

Ibrahim’s work as a carpenter took him all over the city, gathering lumber and borrowing tools, because he did not own tools himself. He struggled to earn enough just to feed his family.

Ibrahim was thrilled to receive carpentry tools and training from World Concern to start his own business. Immediately he increased his productivity, and within a few months, he was able to open his own shop. Ibrahim’s clients rave about his work, and he is very thankful to be able to serve others with his skills and equipment.

Your gift is helping an entrepreneur like Ibrahim build a successful business.

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Honor an educator: Provide a teacher’s salary

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Gift Report: Honor an educator by providing a teacher’s salary

“School is the key of life. That is what I tell my students all the time,” says Mary (pictured left), a young teacher who has worked with World Concern in South Sudan since 2007.

Her own life is an example to her students of the transformation education can bring. After completing secondary school, Mary followed her dream to become a teacher. Currently, she educates children who were displaced by the conflict in Abyei, near the border with Sudan, shortly after South Sudan became an independent nation.

She encourages her students to stay in school—especially the girls—as only 25% of children in South Sudan are enrolled in school, and dropout rates are the highest in the world.

As Mary joins hands with the children in her class and sings a song with them, the joy is evident on her face. Your gift of a teacher’s salary is helping a teacher like Mary live their dream and impact children’s lives for the future.

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A Treadle Pump to Improve Crops

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Gift Report: A Treadle Pump to Improve Crops

Adut (pictured at left) was concerned about malnutrition in her children because they ate a bland, limited diet. She didn’t have enough money to purchase vegetables and other healthy foods at the market. She tried growing vegetables, but having to use a tin bucket or gourd to carry water to her field was hard work, and her garden produced very little.

All of that changed when Adut received a treadle pump from World Concern. She is now able to irrigate large areas of land and grows vegetables to feed her children, plus sell enough at the market to earn a good income.

“The poor health of my children will soon improve as I grow enough vegetables, which are sources of vitamins,” explained Adut. “I am now extending the area where I grow vegetables because the treadle pump will help me supply enough water to the fields.”

The treadle pump also enables Adut to save time and energy, allowing her to focus on other important aspects of caring for her family and earning income.

Thank you for your gift, which is helping a family like Adut’s grow productive crops.

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Heal the Environment with Tree Plantings

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Gift Report: Heal the Environment with Tree Plantings

At one time, Haiti was a green, lush Caribbean island. But years of logging for charcoal by impoverished residents has left less than 2% of the land forested, making the island nation extremely vulnerable to destruction from hurricanes, flooding and mudslides. Contrast that to the Dominican Republic, which shares the island with Haiti, but 40% of its land is covered by healthy rain forests.

In the Les Cayes region of southern Haiti, World Concern has planted trees to help protect the land and the people living there. You can see in the photo to the left how one project, planted next to a community school, has produced lush green trees.

Your gift is helping restore and protect the land with tree plantings. Thank you!

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Family Vegetable Garden

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Gift Report: Fight Hunger with a Family Vegetable Garden

The Vanni region of northern Sri Lanka was devastated by the country’s violent civil war. Many families lost loved ones and homes, and had to start their lives over from scratch.

In the village of Suthanthirapuram, World Concern is helping war widows resettle and rebuild their lives, after having been displaced for several years. Many are disabled and vulnerable.

A top priority is equipping them feed their families and earn income. The women (pictured at left) received seeds, seedlings, and compact irrigation systems for home gardening. The vegetables the women are growing provide a healthy diet for their children, and can be sold to help pay for things like school tuition.

Your gift is helping to restore, empower and transform the lives of women like these.

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Village well for clean water

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Gift Report: Village well for clean water

The people of Nathongluang village in Laos used the river for all their water needs. But upstream, other villages, cattle and buffalo also used the river. Adding to that, an industrial plant’s waste is spilled into the river.

Conditions were very unhealthy, and the women of the village bore the burden of collecting and carrying water each day.

Understandably, there was great excitement when a drilling crew arrived to dig a new well in Nathongluang. Everyone in the village gathered around to see their new fountain of clean water.

The whole village has been taught how to use and maintain the well (pictured left), even learning how to fix future problems. In this way, the residents of the village are taking ownership of the well and responsibility for its functioning. Thanks to gifts from donors like you, this new well provides more than just clean water—it provides better health, shared responsibility, a sense of community and hope for the future.

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