Medical Centre, Orphanage & Training Centre
'The Forgotten People'
India is a beautiful country and is developing at a promising rate, but areas of India are still completely untouched by aid agencies and the Indian government.
Andhra Pradesh in South India is one such area: hundreds of thousands of people live in very remote areas, miles from cities and towns. India’s rural poor are often called 'the forgotten people', since aid and development simply doesn’t get to them.
Faith In Action Ministries (FIAM)
FIAM is a Christian charity standing in this gap with
an holistic approach to personal and social transformation. It's clear that their beliefs inform what
they do, and that their aim is to benefit 'the whole person and the whole of
society'. FIAM currently supports over
60 church communities and their surrounding villages in the Andhra Pradesh
region.
The scope of their projects is breathtaking:
- Vocational Training
- Education and Feeding Programmes: which are so good that the government has taken on existing education programmes and asked FIAM to establish new schools
- Caring for Leprosy Communities
- Orphanages
- Free Health Care: with fully trained GPs
- Clean Water Provision: incl. bore hole drilling
- Teaching/Training: for local church leaders and their communities
- Local Teams: reaching out to wider communities, incl. on-going disaster relief on the South East Coast for the effects of the 2004 Tsunami
- Visiting Prisons
- Caring for the Homeless
The Challenge
James Sharp (The Cred Foundation) and Andy Frost (Emerging Culture) have both visited Janaki, and they were amazed at how much FIAM has achieved.
She aims to establish a 3-storey complex that will house an AIDS orphanage (expanding capacity beyond the 8 AIDS orphans she’s taken in herself!), a medical centre offering primary and secondary patient care, and a training centre for FIAM staff.
James states: "Janaki is not short of
vision! Nor is she short of dedicated
and generous local support through which to realise this vision. What she is short of is funding from the west
to meet the acute needs of the rural poor".
The Cred Foundation and Emerging Culture have decided to partner together to raise £18,000 - enough to build a facility that will make a staggering difference to some of the poorest communities on earth. We guarantee that 100% of your donation will go to FIAM - if you’re a UK tax-payer, please let us Gift Aid your donation.
Join with us in telling the next chapter of Janaki’s remarkable story.
