INDIA

Our 14-acre farmland enterprise in South India serves as a funding multiplier for our programs, reaching orphans, destitute women and children of the slums. The enterprise started as a water buffalo dairy farm— that's why we have a water buffalo in our logo! However today the farmland includes not only dairy production but also a 240-tree orange orchard and the cultivation of various crops. The enterprise empowers our native team with more funding and a stronger sense of ownership in their work.



Opportunities to help:
[ Multiply your donation's impact in India by sponsoring a water buffalo ]
[ Sponsor a water buffalo in someone's honor ]

ORPHAN CARE. Due to the crippling effects of extreme poverty and disease in South Asia, millions of children are orphaned, roaming the streets in gangs or falling victim to child prostitution, human trafficking or forced labor. India has more orphans than any other nation: 35 million. Our orphanage in South India acts as a safe harbor in the midst of this darkness, offering orphans a way out of the dead-end of despair and hunger. Through the work of our organization, these precious children are provided a loving home centered on Biblical principals. Thanks to newly expanded facilities, we now have room to bring in many more children.



Opportunities to help:
[ Sponsor an orphan for just $29/mo. ]
[ Help rescue an orphan in someone's honor ]
[ Sign up to be an Orphan Advocate ]

WIDOW'S SEAMSTRESS PROGRAM. Our Widow's Seamstress Business Initiative is successfully empowering widows who are among the poorest of the poor in South Asia. Many widows in this part of the world are socially shunned and often pulled into the darkness of prostitution. But Peace Gospel is offering widows a way out of their poverty and despair. As we receive sponsorship funds from donors like yourself, widows are taken through a 4 month training program and then equipped with a sewing machine and basic supplies. This allows widows to start a practical in-demand business that provides for their family. Recently the program has been expanded to include non-widows who are facing extreme poverty in the slums.



Opportunities to help:
[ Sponsor a widow's seamstress business ]
[ Sponsor a widow in someone's honor ]

SLUM OUTREACH. Millions of children live in the Indian slums with no opportunity to receive an education, let alone any normal sense of nourishment or hygiene. Our education center, "The Children's Hope Center" is located in one of the largest slum areas of India, in the city of Hyderabad (pop. 8 million). We're in need of finding scholarship sponsors to bring in several children we have identified as meeting our profile for at-risk candidates, namely children aged 5 to 7 living in shanty homes in the slums, found scavenging in the main city trash heap looking for recyclables on behalf of their parents or relatives. Our education center provides a well-rounded education including a computer lab, hot meals, hygiene supplies and medical care for the new students brought in. Through this program, we're seeking to attack the core issues that perpetuate the cycle of poverty and put children at risk for human trafficking.



Opportunities to help:
[ Sponsor a child of the slums with a scholarship ]
[ Help with the expansion of our slum outreach education center ]