$50 pays the medicine for one of the children we are supporting, Tharindu in
Sri Lanka, for one month; $600 pays for one year.     

$7 pays for a school uniform for a child in Sri Lanka. Thousands of families are so poor that  they cannot afford a school uniform for their child. A child cannot attend school if it doesn’t have a uniform.     

$70 pays for a micro business for a woman in Indonesia, having lost everything after the recent  earthquakes, tsunami and floods. We have a 99% pay back rate of these loans, allowing us to continuously provide this support. A micro business can be a sundries shop (selling soft drinks, shampoo, soap, chips), a sewing machine, a bicycle, burning bricks.    

$500 pays for the urgent surgery of children in Pakistan, having been injured in the October 2005 earthquake and not having received surgical care yet, i.e. hip fractures, broken limbs.    

$1,000 pays for the medicine for a month in our clinic in Pakistan, providing free medical care to now 120,000 people affected by the October 2005 earthquake.    

$1,400 pays for a female counselor for a year in our HIV/AIDS prevention and care program in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, India. This counselor provides the only access to protection for girls and women “born into brothels” for generations and living in abject poverty. This counselor is a source of education and hope that these girls and women never had before, and a real chance to interrupt their cycle of despair.    

$150 (x 200) is needed for 200 children in Jhabua, India;
$150 provides one year of HIV/AIDS treatment for one child in one of
the poorest areas in India.     

$250 is needed per month for one nurse in our clinic in Lwala,
Kenya, who is responsible for caring for 100 patients per day;
3,000 patients/month. This means quality medical care for 8 cents per patient.
$3,000 pays for a full year.     

$4,000 is needed for three children in Sri Lanka who need heart surgery. We keep receiving frequent requests for heart surgeries. We can only commit if we receive funds for these surgeries in advance.     

$20,000 is needed for a Jeep for use as an emergency ambulance for our clinic in Lwala, Kenya, serving 10,000 people.     

$25,000 is needed for all personnel to support our mobile clinic in Mozambique for one full year – providing access to medical care for 150,000 people – for most of them for the first time in their lives.