Help End Local Poverty (H.E.L.P)

First of all, I want to thank Nicole for sharing our story on her blog. Help End Local Poverty (H.E.L.P.) is on a mission to rescue homeless orphans, to restore their hope and to renew their communities.

Rescue: These kids live in fields, parks, streets, and dumps. They are sick, hungry and lonely. We want to rescue these kids by building orphanages that are run by caring leaders.

Restore: Through our Help One Now initiative, once a kid is rescued, we want to help restore their soul. The $35 provides food, clothing, water and education on a month-to-month basis. Trust me, this is a HUGE relief for the local leaders.

Renew: We walk with the local community to help create long term solutions to end poverty. Solutions such as: micro-finance, business training skills, farming, and church planting.

Currently, we serve 100 orphans in Musha Wevana Children’s Home in Zimbabwe. There is currently a massive food shortage in Zimbabwe. Our kids are only getting meat in their diet once-a-month. We want to change that. And we can!

This year, we decided to do a Christmas Fundraiser so we can fund The Chicken Project. We are going to purchase Chickens for the Musha Wevana Children’s Home, so the kids can have protein (eggs) and meat (chickens) several multiple times each week. To get this project up-and-running it’s going to take $5200. So far, we’ve raised over $3000. In the next two weeks we need to raise an additional $2000 for this project to be fully funded. 100% of all donations go directly to the project. (except for PayPal fees)

We would love for you to get involved! You can donate, any amount helps. You can blog our story, tweet this link, and join us on Facebook; it all helps. You also can read morehere, here and here. It takes a tribe to create a movement. A movement can change the world, and we all know the world needs to be changed.

Chris Marlow is Founder/Director of Help End Poverty. You can follow them on Twitter, check out the website, or learn more about the Christmas fundraiser. You can see all of my 12 Days of Christmas Giving posts here.