Helping Others  updated 7-27-2011

Here's a site you can go to    ( www.detailshere.com/helpingothers2.htm  ) and click on just 7 different banners and send food, shelter, and support and help out all around the world just by clicking on the banners. For those of you who think you have a good vocabulary,  the free rice banner, #4, , will challenge you. They send out so much rice per correct answer and you can spend a lot of time here trying to beat them.  I thought I had a good vocabulary but they humbled me.


Current Projects we help with
Mezcala Family in Mezcala, Mexico
Childrens Orphanage in Chapala, Mexico
Pastor Enock's orphanage in Kenya, Africa
M. Srikanth in India 
Huichol Indians in Mexico
Brighton Gundani in Zimbabwe

Mezcala Family - Mezcala, Mexico
Here are some pics of the Mezcala Family we (and by "we" I mean not just me but all of you included who have sent funds to help out also) help support in Mezcala, Mexico, about 40 miles from where we live here just outside of Guadalajara.
$50 -$70 a week in groceries; just the staples - flour, sugar, salt, maseca (corn flour for tortillas), beans, rice, eggs, soap, bread from a day old thrift store, cheap turkey hotdogs, tortillas from two tortilarias that save me their rejects and day old returns - these things make the difference between total dispair and survival. Consuela, the older lady, and matriarch spends much of her time schooling the younger children on their street in the Bible. I buy them corn and bean seeds each year for a small crop they bring in from a small plot on a steep hillside just outside Mezcala.  They remove the kernals on the cobs by hand and grind the corn into flour and make tortillas and sell them as they can get three times as much for them as simply selling the corn kernals. An incredible amount of work for such a small return. Although the husband, Marcelo, works when he can get work, minimum wage here is like $5/day. There are no jobs in these small towns that pay anything near enough to support a family this size with.

 

 

 
 

Childrens orphanage in Chapala, Mexico
http://www.loveinactioncenter.org 

See a slide presentation including the new Oasis facility at  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpj4jhrvuek

See 5 pages of pics starting at   http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff106/JRG7011/?start=80 
See a slide show at  http://s238.photobucket.com/albums/ff106/JRG7011/?mediafilter=slideshows 

        Anabelle the director

New Kitchen I  put together for the boys dormitory at the new Oasis Facility - Ber
   

Love in Action is a home where children whom have suffered neglect or were in a high-risk home environment, are placed by the Mexican government with the purpose of providing them with a temporary and safe shelter. Unfortunately 
the Mexican Government then provides next to no support for these placements. 
They are located on Mount Tepehua (te-pay-wah) in the town of Chapala in the state of Jalisco, Mexico. This part of town 
is one the poorest in the area with a high percentage of gang activity, drug and alcohol problems and single parent homes.
They presently house about 40 children with ages ranging from 2 to 16 years old. In addition to this, they also provide day care services for single mothers from the neighborhood. Pretty much all volunteer help is utilized in this facility, from meal preparation to  keeping things in repair. The children attend school in different shifts throughout the day. This is one of 
the places I deliver tortillas to from the two tortilarias that save me their rejects and day old returns to distribute to the poor.
The facility is nearing the end of a three year process which will complete  full A. C. (civil association or nonprofit) status. Apart from being accountable to a board of directors, they continually are visited by government officials that come in 
to supervise the many activities here at the center.
  
The needs are many - especially with the remodeling and the renovation of the new OASIS facility. 
See  http://www.loveinactioncenter.org   for more information 

Contact information including map can be found at  http://www.loveinactioncenter.org/lia/Contact%20Us.html 


Pastor Enock - Kenya, Africa

Pastor Enock in Kenya has a congregation and runs an orphanage. Looks like his orphan count grew since first letter. 
He can be contacted at  beririnaophanage@yahoo.co.uk  
(yes, the mispelling is the correct addy)



His congregation above
Passover Celebration  April 19th 2008, including footwashing below

New Shoes for Orphans Feb 2009
We still need shoes for the other 25 kids
 

From Pastor Enock
We need beds, mattresses and blankets for the orphans. The cost of  a bed  is  ksh 3500 equal to $54USD each   
and we need to have 18  beds as they will be sleeping two in each bed. Mattresses will cost us  $25 each and the blankets  will cost  $8  and we are praying to have  36  blankets.


I have 2 congregations which are now under your ministry, and we also have 36 orphans now (up from 10 when we first started communicating) whom we are taking care of.  Please, is there anyway you can join us in supporting these children? We worship under trees. We do not have shade.  Please pray for us. 
Thank you and remain blessed. Hope to hear from you soon.
  Pastor Enock

 

Best way to get money to him is via Western Union or MoneyGram. 
You can send money online using a debit or credit card by Western Union
- a check takes too long .

You just need his name  Enock  Oigara   and  country  Kenya, (Africa is the continent, not the country) , and branch  Kisii Branch  and you need to make up a secret question - like what's my dog's name.  And email him three things to be able to retrieve it; the answer to the secret question, the amount sent, and the transaction identification number on the receipt from Western Union. He needs those things to retrieve his funds. It works good. Checks don't work well in this situation. 
He can be contacted at  beririnaophanage@yahoo.co.uk    (yes, the mispelling is the correct addy). 

Send money by bankwire
HelloBer,

Greetings in the wonderful name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Thank you for your help that you 
have offered to give toward the orphans God bless you so much. Yes I have an account which is for the church,and this is how you can send them or wire, please when sending write as I have written here, our banks are very strictly.  These are our bank details;
Account name:FAITHFUL OPHANAGE CARE GROUP.
Account Number: 0510194414740.
BRANCH;KENYA-KISII BRANCH
Correspondent bank: Citibank N.A. NEW YORK
Swift Code: CITIUS33
FED-WIRE NO. ;02100
Beneficiary Bank: Equity Bank Ltd.
Swift Code: EQBLKENA
Send check by mail  but checks take a loooong time to get there and end up stolen before they get there. 
Dear Ber,
   Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus christ.
I still apreciate your help toward the children and am glad to hear from you let our heavenly Father bless you and add you more.Yes I can deposit the check , you can send it through this adress;
 Pastor Enock Ombasa Oigara
 P.O. Box 818 
kisii 40200
 Kenya E Africa.
 Put on the check you have to  write the name of the account.
 
FAITHFUL OPHANAGE CARE GROUP  
           A/C  0510194414740.

When you will send the check please tell me through the e-mail and the time it will take to arive.
Thank you for your good work. Hope to hear from you soon.
pastor Enock

 

M. Srikanth in India 
Dear beloved brothers and sisters in christ, Greetings to you your blessed family your ministry and 
all in the most precious name of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ. I already sent a mail to you informing about my gospel work activities even though you could not respond to my mail.  Brother I am an extremely poor servant of God declaring the word of God door to door and condescend to visit hospitals to pray for the sick . Due to not having food my health condition is deteriorating . Please do not fear I am not a fraud . many can fear about Indians fraud. If you can give reply I shall send my work photos. Otherwise you might come to visit my congregations directly. Please accept me as your your co worker and send your benevelance as soon as possible. If you can, our lord shall bestow upon you the crown of righteousness in eternity. Your reward is great in heaven please do pray for our lord's vital services, our poor family,
your congregations, your friends, your well wishers ,your long life and sound health and every prosperity.
We wait for your kind reply.  I close with NUM 6:24-26
YOUR HUMBLE AND POOR BROTHER IN CHRIST
(M.SRIKANTH)
my postal address
M.SRIKANTH
PO.ELAMANCHILI
ARYAPET,GARUVU
W.G.DT., A.P
S.INDIA-534268







Huichol Indians of Mexico - Agua Milpa reservoir in Nayarit

Tomos,Ber,Chuleo and Miguel
Solar oven so they can bake bread

The Huichol Project - 39 pages of pictures

The Huichol Indians are an indigenous tribe of native Mexican Indians who normally live high in the mountains in northern Jalisco/eastern Nayarit. Most are still pagan although many years have been spent  trying to bring Christianity to them. Nine families DID convert to Christianity and then refused to continue participating in any more peyote smoking, teguino drinking pagan festivities.  For this, they were burned out of their homes; with many of them still in them.  There are burn victim pictures here to show that. The Christian Huichols were no longer considered Huichols by the pagan Huichols and were essentially evicted from their homeland. I entered the picture when they arrived at the Seventh Day Adventist Campamento, a camp/retreat location for SDA members, halfway between Guadalajara and Chapala. I have since left Adventism but still work with Pastor Dagoberto and the Huichols. It started out just supplying food and clothing during their interim stay there, but then a new steep barren area was found for them on Ejidado land on the AguaMilpa Reservoir in Eastern Nayarit and the task then became one of carving out a whole new community out of mountain and rock. 

If you bring up www.googleearth.com  and go to longitude 21 degrees 46 minutes 06.21 seconds north  by latitude 104 degrees 38 minutes 42.75 seconds west  at an elevation of about 923' you will see the site of the main Huichol camp.  However, if you go left just a little you will see the plateau that has been cleared where they now have their adobe houses (even though the google earth map is not new enough to show the houses or the clearing) . The next big project is to get spring water up to the plateau. I need about 500' of 1" plastic pipe and a 1/2HP 2 wire deepwell submersible pump. I already have a 5000W generator up there.      This is their story.

Africa - Zimbabwe

 The Zimbabwe Situation   , I found this set of articles on the net while search for info on Zimbabwe to support what Brighton tells us below. The conditions there are just pretty hard to imagine.
Here's other links  have found also.
http://www.zimexilesforum.org/index.php?module=Pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=1&pid=42 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sokwanele/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7045068.stm
 

Here is a pic below of Brighton Gundani in Zimbabwe, Africa and his family photo taken in 2005. 
He is  holding Natalie (his daughter) , next to him is Euphrasia (his wife), and Willing , his wife's sister is sitting down.  Besides trying to keep a family in Mezcala here in food, I have been funding a young African's schooling in
Zimbabwe Africa. Doesn't cost much, $40/quarter. Our relationship  started out with him requesting one of my Bible lesson CD's that I send out all over the world from my website at www.detailshere.com/bible.htm ; and then a Bible.  He has sent me proof of his schooling as well as his grades. Some  of his letters showing the situation in this country have been truly heart wrenching. I have a pdf file about Zimbabwe I can email you if you want more proof. The conditions are  just unimaginable. He can cash checks there. That's how I send him money. He can also accept western union but it costs too much to send western union and they steal too much of it in costs before he gets it. Best to send him checks. Just $5, $10, or $20 is like a fortune to him. 

Best way to get him money is to send a paypal payment directly to his friend's paypal account at rchitumba@yahoo.com 
Be sure and put  for Brighton Gundani in the memo box and then email a copy of the spend to Brighton 
at bgundani@yahoo.com  This method works really fast and Raymond Chitumba is honest and gives it to him.

Brighton  Gundani
P O Box 1447
Marondera,  Zimbabwe
Africa

bgundani@yahoo.com  

 

 

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