Current Projects
In addition to our ongoing need of sponsors for children, we also have a number of other needs both in the office and out in the field. Below is a list of our current urgent needs.
Gisuru Bed Project
The Gisuru school for the Deaf has about 50 new students arriving within two weeks! They already had more students than beds and some of the mattresses will not make it for another school year.
Can you help us provide beds and mattresses for all of the children? We need $10,750 to cover the whole need, but the Lord often uses many small gifts to make up the total. This is an immediate need. Deaf children, most with little communication skills, are leaving their homes and families for the first time and having many new experiences. Let's have a bed ready for each one.
The school needs 70 beds ($50 each) and 125 mattresses ($58 each).
If funds are received over this amount, they will be used for pillows, sheets and mosquito nets.
This need was wonderfully met within just a few days! If you would like to help support the ministry at GSU please consider sponsorship or a one-time gift toward unsponsored students.
Toilet Project
The Berean Mission School in Ghana has been growing! The school provides a Christian education for young people in the Ablekuma area of Accra, Ghana and has done so for nearly fifteen years. For nearly a decade, Allow the Children’s sponsorship program in Ghana has largely centered on the children of this school. Many children have come to faith in Christ and are growing in that faith. Esther, who serves as a cook at BMS, has two daughters, Angel and Emelia, who study there. “The school’s Bible classes have helped shape my kids’ lives tremendously,” Esther says, “I thank BMS and all the sponsors for their love and care.”
As the school has grown, government authorities have mandated that the church and school leaders improve the facilities, especially the toilet facilities. These improvements will help ensure the cleanliness and health of the children.
The photo above shows the part of the old school facility where the new toilet area is being constructed. The door on the right of this picture enters into the kitchen area for the school.
Work on this project has already begun with startup funding from Allow the Children. These photos demonstrate the type of work already being done, as men are constructing new walls around (and even through!) the old building as it currently stands.
As they make progress, the old facility will be torn down and replaced by the new one, which will provide running water, a safe facility for the children, and a new kitchen/cafeteria area where the children will take their meals daily.
To fully fund this construction, we need to raise $15,000. Your support would greatly help this project!
Click below to donate now! Please note “Toilet Project” in the comment box.
Twenty Churches in Twenty Years
Why would a ministry called “Allow The Children” do a project for building churches? Children in many villages in Nepal and throughout the world are growing up without the experience of a church, even if they have the blessing of a home fellowship of believers. For many small groups in a village, to have a building dedicated to the Lord for worship, teaching and serving is just incredible. For people who struggle daily for survival, a church building is quite beyond their visible means to provide for themselves.
For our 20th anniversary in ministry, June 2023 we want to look back over all that the Lord has done. We also want to step confidently into the future with a challenging project that will have a spiritual impact until the Lord returns!
We would like to see a total of 20 churches funded and buildings completed over the next year and a half—the last half of 2022 and the full year of 2023—TWENTY CHURCHES in TWENTY YEARS of ministry. We need $10,500-15,000 to complete each village church building.
The Lord has met this need and provided even more abundantly than we could have imagined. As of May, 2023 we have funded twenty-two churches! We have other village fellowships that have been screened and there is an ongoing need for more church buildings. A gift of any amount is a blessing to this ongoing project.
Please note “church building project” on your gift
Children’s Ministry Packages
Bible pictures
Bible lessons in Nepali
Bible memory aids
Bible coloring pictures
Crayons and pens
This is another project that we want to do for our 20th Anniversary. We want to supply a package of children’s ministry materials for each village church that we work with in Nepal, that is churches where we have trained the pastor, which are discipling children in our sponsorship program, the new building projects, and the past building projects.
We will buy duffle bags, fill them with the supplies and deliver them to each of the village churches, remote mountain churches, and two city slum churches.
There are about 50 churches on our list.
We need about $100 per church.
As of May, 2023 we have provided Children’s Ministry Packages for 100 churches! We praise the Lord for his provision. We would like to provide new and updated teaching materials to the churches each year as an ongoing children’s ministry project.
Memo: Children’s Ministry Packages
The Christmas Project
The Christmas Fund is divided among all of the children in our program to provide gifts and a special Christmas meal for each of our children’s homes.
The Christmas bags contain different items every year. Typical gifts are school tablets and pens, soap, a toothbrush, some children’s Bible tracts, and a hat knitted by our volunteers in the US. Last year, each child received a package of masks. About every 3 years we supply new Bibles to all who are of reading age. Some years we have given T-shirts, a towel, a water bottle and we always include candy which is a rare treat.
Bible Project
All of our ministry countries need Bibles. We distribute them through the village churches. The pastors know who among their people can read and do not have a Bible. We also use them during our medical clinics. We give them to children in our sponsorship program who do not have one.
We can use as many Bibles as we can fund.
Berean Mission School Expansion
Would you like to help? The Lord is blessing the work at the Berean Mission School in Ghana! Because of increased enrollment and spiritual and educational needs being met through the school, building expansion is necessary.
What is the goal?
To build more rooms for space for additional children.
What supplies are on hand?
Our partners at the school have secured sand and gravel for the concrete work.
What is needed?
Funding for metal rods, boards, plywood, nails, and other supplies for the work on the remaining classrooms and the addition of another story to accommodate more students.
Total needed for this project:
Amount needed: 30,000 Ghana Cedis ($4,600)
If you would like to participate in this project, or if you have questions, reach out to us at: brian@allowthechildren.org or lisa@allowthechildren.org
Burundi Vocational Projects
We praise the Lord that the buildings and equipment needed have been completed. Ongoing expenses for this ministry include salaries for the teachers and materials for the kids to use as they are learning. The goal is to build a base of customers so that vocational training will support itself or even provide income for the school. While we are in the start-up phase, we need wood for the kids as they learn carpentry, cloth for sewing, and metal for practice welding. As funds allow, we would like to give each student a sewing machine when they finish the sewing program.
Pastor Training
An important part of our work is to encourage, equip and enable the faithful pastors who are already ministering among the people.
A village pastor might have been a believer for only a short time. He may not have learned the familiar bible stories as a child. He may have received some education or none at all.
Each country is structured a little differently, but Pastor training is a big project that we have done many, many times. It is a blessing to invest in those who will go out and reach others. It is a blessing to give them time to come away, to fellowship and worship, and pray together.
Women’s Training
It is so very important to train women in the Bible and all matters of faith. Women are an incredible influence in the family and the church. Women are the primary leaders and teachers of the next generation of the church. In less developed countries, women’s ministries are often considered less important than those of the men. Women need the encouragement of these seminars. These seminars require hours of preparation, of course, for the teacher. Funding is needed to provide at least one meal. This is a very special time for women to come together to fellowship and focus on spiritual things.
Allow The Women
THE PROBLEM
Girls in our developing countries often struggle to deal with their menstrual cycle. Disposable products are rarely available and financially unobtainable. The girl may have no choice but to miss school and everything else in her life for five days a month.
THE SOLUTION
We have made reusable menstrual pads for each of our ministry countries and continue to bring in more kits as we are able.
URGENT NEEDS:
Sewing! We need shields, pads and drawstring bags.
Cutting! Use a pattern to cut the pieces then bring (or send) them to our office for someone else to sew
Donations of materials! We need donations of fabrics (cotton or cotton blends for the bags and flannel and polyurethane laminate for the pads and shields).
Administration supplies: postage, paper, printing, etc.
We find that people really like the fact that ALL of the money they designate is going for the child or project. But they also want their tax receipt. There are government compliance tasks which we must do and which cost money. Banks charge fees for services to wire funds internationally. We must have a web site and make promotional materials. We need to maintain computers and other office equipment. We need paper, printing and postage. The office administration is an important part of the ministry.
Everything we do in the field depends on the efficiency and integrity of the office ministry in the U.S.
We are so grateful for those who help with the office needs.