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Relief & Development
Our desire is to assist the poor and needy in response to
natural or manmade disasters ("relief") and to help the poor
and needy help themselves ("development"). Our motivation is
to share our resources with the poor and needy as an
expression of the love of Christ for the glory of God.
Relief and Development go hand in hand. Relief is the
action of addressing immediate needs, while development is
the process of establishing a permanent solution to
eliminate the needs. Our plan is to relieve the need (give a
bag of rice to a poor family), and then remove the need by
helping the poor to help themselves (provide water pumps and
hose to irrigate a field during the dry season). This method
will alleviate hunger and malnutrition (give a fish and also
teach them how to fish), prevent sickness (provide medicine,
mosquito nets, education, and adequate shelter), increase
education and self respect (give textbooks, bring teachers,
build schools, increase awareness of self worth and value in
Christ), and eventually heal the soul of the people (model
Christ, build churches [community center], bring and train
leaders, raise up pastors).
We believe that God loves the poor and hears their cries.
In Cambodia, the needs are sharply apparent: Children go
hungry, disease is rampant, living conditions are
deplorable, education and learning are sparse, and poverty
afflicts the majority. We see these needs, and we hear the
cry of the people as well. Our goal in relieving the Khmer
people begins with providing them with food, clothing, and
other material goods. In His Steps International reaches out
to the Broken, the Hungry, the uneducated, affecting the
total person; we can touch them now and change them forever:
food for the body, education for the mind, healing for the
soul, and truth for the Spirit.
The average income for
a poor family in Cambodia is about $30.00 per month, or less
than a dollar per day. The immediate needs of
the people will continue to be met by our partners and
supporters in the ministry. Part of your support may
go towards rice, bath towels, pots and pans, ice coolers,
water jugs, medicine, water purification tablets, or
clothes.
Providing Water purification
Teaching the youth
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"Poverty is about lacking essentials, not just material
things, such as clean water and a reliable food supply, but
less tangible things too, such as education or spiritual
hope."
House Remodel before
House Remodel During
House Remodel Finished
Building a toilet for a woman with AIDS
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