Amazing Grace Orphanage
Uganda
The Amazing Grace Orphanage has been operating for 12 years now. Currently home to 35 orphans and 4 widows.

Involvement: Lahash partners with the orphange to assist with food, medical assistance, staff salaries, and school uniforms and supplies.

Total Monthly Financial Support: $350 (100% covered)

More Information:

Amazing Grace Orphanage Website

Amazing Grace Children's Choir Music Video

St. Bartholomew Orphanage
Sudan
A sister orphanage to Amazing Grace, in operation since 1994. Currently houses 34 orphans with plans to double the occupancy in 2006.

Involvement: Lahash partners with St. Bartholomew to provide money that is used for local schooling needs, feeding, clothes, and medical supplies.

Total Monthly Financial Support: $500 (60% covered)

More Information:

St. Bartholomew's Orphanage Website

St. Bartholomew Photo Gallery

IWASSRU Widows Fund - Uganda/Sudan
Susan Tabia has organized hundreds of widows into small groups that encourage spiritual and community development.

Involvement: Lahash partners with IWASSRU to assist these women with small business opportunities, blankets, mosquito nets, seeds, garden tools, Bibles, education, and community support and seminars.

Total Monthly Financial Support: $400 (0% covered)

More Information:

Widow Program Overview

Sudanese Widows Visit Move (17 MB Quicktime)

IWASSRU Lepers Fund - Sudan
Susan Tabia and Ezbon have partnered with a leper colony in Southern Sudan that have been abandoned by the medical community for years because of the insecurity in the region.

The Lahash team met with the leper community of Kajo Keji in 2005, and handed out supplies of blankets, cooking pots, clothing, and soap. Together with IWASSRU, Lahash would like to provide a second one time gift to the community.

One time financial donation: $8000 (0% covered)

Visit to the Magiri Leper Colony Photo Gallery:

Leper Colony Visit Photo Gallery

Leper Colony Visit Movie (14 MB Quicktime)

Renew (Sex Worker Recovery Program)
Currently assisting 5 sex workers in a pilot program to leave the prostitution industry and seek emotional, spiritual, and physical healing - as well as financial stability through education or micro-loans.

Involvement: Lahash is working closely with SCF Director Nick Kemboi to offer caring and practical assistance to former sex workers. This includes assistance with rent, food, and education needs - and email correspondence, accountability, and friendship.

Total Monthly Support: $250 (40% covered)

More Information:

Renew Program Overview

Renew Program Photo Gallery

HIV/AIDS Counseling and Home Based Care
Working in the community of slums in Eldoret Kenya assisting HIV positive clients and their families.

Involvement: Lahash and SCF have joined together to provide emergency care for families devastated by HIV/AIDS. This assistance takes the forms of school uniforms and other clothing, food, rent assistance, and counseling families with overcoming the stigma and finding hope for life.

Total Monthly Financial Support: $100 (50% covered)

More Information:

www.ukimwi.net

AIDS in Kenya Photo Gallery

Child Sponsorship
Assisting orphans with education, spiritual guidance, community development, health, and fun. This program is partnered with Lahash staff in the United States, combining Western and Tanzanian sponsorship for each child.

Involvement: Lahash sponsors are sending $9 per child to match the Tanzanian church members' $9 per child for a total of $18 per month. This program aims to cover kids that other sponsorship programs cannot support.

Total Monthly Financial Support: $9 per month per child - 21 children (100% covered)

More Information:

Profiles of the 16 kids in the Program

Child Sponsorship Photo Gallery

HIV/AIDS Counseling and Home Based Care
A program run by Pastor Amos Muagachi and Jo French from the church offices. Assisting HIV clients with money for CD4 testing, food, clothing, rent, and micro loans with the eventual goal of self-sustainability.

Involvement: Lahash is joining several other organizations in providing care for these HIV client families.

Total Monthly Financial Support: $100 (0% covered)

Orphan Sponsorship
ERM has hundreds of children in the capital of Rwanda that have been orphaned by the genocide or by HIV/AIDS or other events. Director Emmanuel Sitaki has a heart for the kids of his home country.

Involvement: You can sponsor kids online now by clicking on the link below:

Child Sponsorship Program

Tenderfeet Children's Center
Margaret Wanjiku Nyabuto runs a small 6 room school for AIDS orphans and vulnerable children in the desperately needy slums of Kibera, Kenya. Kibera is one of the largest slums in the world. The school provides safety, spiritual guidance, and education to 50 pre-school and kindergarten age children. The children are also fed two meals during the day.

Involvement: Lahash is assisting with schooling and feeding costs.

Total Monthly Financial Support: $380

One Time Donation for Purchasing School: $8,000

More Information:

Tenderfeet Children's Center

Help Shadrack Website

AIDS in Kenya Photo Gallery

4WD Vehicle for Susan Tabia
Partner - IWASSRU
For over a decade Susa Tabia and the team from IWASSRU have used public transportation for traveling and moving goods. Susan is in very poor physical shape (having suffered an accident, loosing her hearing, and experiencing high blood pressure). Often she is forced to stay in run-down hotels with no security as she visits and supervises all of the projects. She has asked Lahash to try to raise the remaining money for a used Toyota 4WD vehicle.

Total Financial Cost: $18,000 (33% covered)

Guest House and Restaurant
Partner - IWASSRU
The orphanage and widow community of Southern Sudan is looking into long term solutions for sustainability. They have decided to construct a guest house and restaurant that can accomodate local guests and provide additional income as a guest house for the orphans and widows. It will also provide employment opportunities for the community, and education for the orphans.

Total Financial Cost: $10,230

Tailoring Training Home
Partner - IWASSRU
Susan Tabia of IWASSRU is constructing a tailoring training house for the widows in the association. The costs include construction of the house and purchasing 6 sewing machines.

Total Financial Cost: $9,358

Camp Eagle
Imago Dei Community Children's Ministry
Grace Covenant Church
The Memory Project
Imago Dei Kriz Home Community
Portland Sudanese Fellowship

Please email info@lahash.net if you'd like your school, church, youth group, or family to partner with the projects listed above.