1. Providing Hope for the World, One Month at a Time
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Walter has known poverty and pain for
much of his life. At 17, he joined the
Sandinista National Liberation Front, guerillas
trying to oust Nicaragua’s dictator. When the
revolution ended, he became a policeman, and
was later shot and wounded.
Today, Walter is a truck driver, caring for his wife,
an aging father, and an extended family. They are
very poor, but thanks to The Salvation Army, he
has hope.
Walter’s family is one of more than 700
impoverished families living in Rosalio Murillo, a
government-owned piece of land near Managua.
The government gave small plots to families, who
then had one month’s time to build a dwelling or
risk forfeiting the land.
The Salvation Army is helping these families in the face of rampant poverty
and unemployment. There is no water, sanitation, or electricity. Residents dig
their own wells, usually by hand.
“Life here is difficult,” says Walter.
Through the support of partners like
you, The Salvation Army provides an
after-school program for children and a fellowship program for women. They
are also working to establish income-generating projects in the community to
help families move forward. Walter, for example, has looked into the prospect
of raising pigs, which can turn a nice profit.
“We don’t want handouts,” Walter says. “We just want the opportunity to
change our situation.”
From Poverty
and Pain to a Life
Filled with Hope!Dear Friend,
Did you know that right now,
at this moment, you’re doing
good things all over the world?
Your support of The Salvation
Army is helping impoverished
people in Nicaragua find a
means of escaping extreme
poverty — and one way is by
raising pigs! (See story at right.)
Your generosity is helping
women who are caught up
in sex trafficking in India,
by offering them vocational
training and a way out. You’re
helping their children too
(page 2).
Your partnership is also making
a difference for frightened
Syrian refugees in Jordan
(page 3) and terrified children
orphaned by Ebola in Liberia
(page 4).
Truly, your compassion is
spreading Hope for the World,
as you’ll see when reading
through this new issue.
Thank you, and God bless you.
Commissioner Susan McMillan
Territorial Commander
A personal message from
Commissioner
Susan McMillan
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The phrases are sobering: “A
particularly fast death toll . . .”
“Children orphaned by the crisis
remain a key concern . . .” “To help
take them from a traumatized state
to a normal state . . .”
These are actual remarks from
field reports from Salvation Army
workers in Liberia from late 2014
and early 2015, in the wake of the
Ebola outbreak. The epidemic took
almost 11,000 lives in West Africa,
including almost 4,500 in Liberia.
Salvation Army programs have
helped more than 23,000 Liberians,
including many orphans. They have
provided food, awareness campaigns,
handwashing stations (including one
at Monrovia school, pictured here)
and protective equipment.
The disease struck home for
The Salvation Army; an officer
in Monrovia died from the virus,
leaving behind a wife and three
young children.
“Liberia was not prepared for this,”
says Salvation Army Major Samuel
Amponsah. “Orphans have been left
behind, alone in their homes. They
are very afraid.
“People live in fear, afraid of
contracting the virus. The need is
great, and our resources are limited.”
Food supplies dwindled because
foreign countries wouldn’t fly
shipments into the country while
the epidemic lasted. Food costs often
doubled, making things worse.
Amponsah’s prayers moving forward
were straightforward enough: “Pray
that the people won’t contract the
disease. Pray for those affected, that
the Lord will heal them. Pray for
orphans and families who have lost
loved ones. Don’t forget about us!”
Thanks to your kindness and
generosity, they are not forgotten.
“Liberia Was Not Prepared for This”
When the Ebola crisis
killed thousands,
The Salvation Army
responded.
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Thanks to your generosity,
they now have that opportunity!
Walter has learned that
raising just two pigs can profit
$160 every three months.
“We don’t want handouts, we
just want the opportunity to
change our situation.”
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2. When Disaster
Strikes, Your Gifts Go
Around the World
Wherever there’s an
emergency, The Salvation
Army is on the scene. Some of
the disasters we’ve responded
to in recent years:
• Malawi, flood relief
(January 2015)
• Sri Lanka, landslides
floods
(December 2014)
• Kashmir, India,
flood relief
(September 2014)
• West Africa, Ebola
outbreak
(June 2014)
• Chile, earthquake
(April 2014)
• Zimbabwe, flood relief
(April 2014)
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Last year, you helped provide:
• 5,000 children with care and
recreation at a hospital in eastern
India
• 844 children with uniforms, shoes,
and school fees in Kenya and Zambia
• 198 special-needs children
with medical care in Uganda and
Democratic Republic of Congo
• 1,200 children with primary
education in remote parts of Haiti
• 152 preschool children with care
at Salvation Army day-care centres
in Chile
• 120 teenagers with computer
training in after-school programs
in Brazil
• 220 children with kitchen supplies
and books for their school in Georgia
• 20 families with five goats each
to help provide a steady income
in Zambia
• 185 children with counselling and
educational support in southwestern
India
• 62 children with uniforms and
shoes so they can attend school
in Indonesia
These are only a few of the
things The Salvation Army
is doing around the world,
thanks to your generous
support. Thank you so much!
A WORLD
OF GOOD
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Hamesh was a tailor in Daraa, Syria,
when the war came to his city.
Hundreds were killed, but he was able to
flee with his family.
“As a father, I will do anything to keep
my children safe and happy,” says
Hamesh, now a refugee in neighbouring
Jordan. “Syria was not safe for my
family.”
Hamesh, who has since found work
as a handyman in Jordan, is among
thousands of refugees who have received
assistance from The Salvation Army.
More than 220,000 people have died in
Syria’s civil war, and almost 3.5 million
have fled the country. Some 1.2 million
have gone into Jordan, and more than
600,000 refugees still live there, mostly
in neighbourhoods since refugee camps
are already full.
The result is overcrowded communities
and often tense relations. Poverty-
stricken Syrian families often end up in
uninsulated, unheated rooms, without
furniture, bedding, or carpets. Facilities,
infrastructure, and schools, are maxed
out, and there are no more jobs.
Zechariah, 39, lost his wife to a
bombing in Syria. He fled to Jordan
with his five children, where they
share a small apartment with 12
people. Zechariah says he has almost
lost hope, but just wants his family to
live with dignity.
The Salvation Army is helping with
that. Working in partnership with
the Lutheran World Foundation,
they have distributed “winterization
kits” to 1,000 families — focusing
especially on vulnerable families, like
single mothers with children, families
affected by disability, and widows.
The kits included a heater, gas bottle,
vouchers for refills, blankets, and
carpets. And children received warm
track suits.
None of this would be possible
without the compassionate support
of friends like you.
“Anything to Keep My
Children Safe”
Garbage and waste line the streets
of the Kamathipura area of
Mumbai, India. There’s no sanitation,
and very little clean water. But those
are the least of the problems.
Kamathipura is Mumbai’s oldest and
one of Asia’s largest red-light districts,
where thousands of sex workers, many
of whom are treated as slave labour,
are regularly beaten by their pimps
and forced to serve as many as 45 men
in a day.
“There is no joy here,” says one of the
women, who hopes her daughter can
avoid a life of prostitution. “I want
more for her. If she can do something
more, then I will be happy.”
Thankfully, The Salvation Army has
been in Kamathipura since 2003,
befriending the approximately 9,000
“There Is No Joy Here”
How you’re bringing hope to a red-light district in India.
Thanks to caring friends like you, Syrians are finding hope
and refuge in Jordan.
women who live and work there. At
its Jeevan Asha centre, The Salvation
Army operates a small school, an
HIV/AIDS clinic, vocational training,
feeding programs for children, and
night shelter for safety . . . all while
sharing the love of God.
At Jeevan Asha, prostituted women and
their children are given a glimpse of
life outside the sex trade. They begin to
see their potential for something more,
something hopeful. More than 900
women have received vocational training
— including tailoring, embroidery, bag
making, and Mehndi designing — plus
health and nutrition seminars.
“The vulnerable children live safer,
healthy, dignified lives,” says Major
Ashok Dushing. “And their mothers
have an opportunity to plan for a
better life.”
Prostituted women are learning trades, like Mehndi design, en route to a better life.
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Thanks to friends like you, women are escaping
sex trafficking and finding new life.
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A Salvation
Army worker
chats with
a little girl
from Syria.
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