Christian Hands International was founded in 1988 to help Christian communities in Pakistan affected by devastating floods. It now operates in Pakistan, Ukraine, and Canada, working to alleviate poverty through orphan care, education, healthcare, hunger relief, emergency relief, and access to safe water. Key activities include sponsoring over 10,000 orphans worldwide, providing schools and medical care, distributing food, and building wells and sanitation systems. The organization is dedicated to empowering vulnerable communities and addressing the root causes of poverty through long-term development programs.

1. Chi CHRISTIAN HANDS INTERNATIONAL
About us
Christian Hands International came in to being in 1988 when devastating floods ravaged many semi-
urban communities near Lahore City of Pakistan. A group of concerned citizens came together and
provided funds and supervision for the affected Christian people to reconstruct their homes. Christian
Hands International society was born shortly after. Christian Hands realized that there were three
additional, more permanent needs to be addressed: a school to provide low cost, quality education to
the children of the area; a dispensary to provide affordable primary health; and an industrial home to
provide income to the women in the area. Today Christian Hands International is activate in Ukraine
Pakistan and Canada
OUR WORK
HELPING TO BUILD A BETTER FUTURE
We're dedicated to serving the most vulnerable people across the world by
addressing the root causes of poverty and empowering communities. From
addressing short-term needs to tackling long term issues, Christian Hands works to
alleviate poverty through a range of varied and important areas.
Orphan Care
We believe providing children with security and a high standard of education will help tackle the
root causes of poverty and empower generations to come.
Christian Hands sponsors already support over 10,000 orphans worldwide and together, we are
laying the foundations for a brighter future not only for the children, but entire communities.
How do we look after our orphans?
Children have many different needs from having love, stability and care to hope for a future full
with opportunities ahead. We address these many diverse aspects of looking after an orphan child
and provide them with holistic care at their most vulnerable time.
This includes- but is not limited to- ensuring the child's security with a family, making sure they
receive a high standard of education, monitoring their welfare progress and providing access to
medical care should any child fall ill.
Education: An Essential Doorway Out of Poverty
Education is one of the most precious gifts we can give. In today's world, it is more important than
ever to ensure children have access to a good quality education.
At school, students not only bring their minds and imaginations to life, but also empower
themselves for an independent future full of opportunities.
Education is a release and an opening. It releases an individual from the cycle of poverty, and
dependence, opening up a world of empowerment for the future.

2. We take many different approaches to education, providing schooling which is appropriate,
relevant and most valuable for a student's long term needs.
Healthcare: The Many Benefits
Good health is the most powerful tool we have for moving forward with our aspirations. It is much
too easy to forget how vital good health is for communities to be able to prosper. Being free from
sickness and disease allows children to attend school, learn and grow into educated strong adults.
With medical care, a country's workforce is strengthened as adults are fit, healthy and strong
enough to work full and productive days. If the main breadwinner has to stay at home with illness,
they are not able to earn to provide for their families. Not only does the family fall into financial
hardship, but work is left undone and the economy slows down and suffers.
Poor health holds communities back and, in many cases, causes them to stay
trapped in the cycle of poverty.
That is why we at Christian Hands believe good health should be treated as one of the biggest
priorities for the world's poor. The sad reality, however, is that affordable and effective health care
is an elusive hope in many parts of the world.
Even where health services are available, they are often dilapidated and lacking the resources to
cater for the community's needs. This means illnesses are prolonged, infections are not contained
and many preventable diseases become a cause of long-term illness and often, death.
Christian Hands run projects to address the most prevalent and widespread diseases. Many of the
biggest killers are also those which are easily treated with targeted medical care.
Hunger: The Most Extreme Form of Poverty
This is no easy cliché. When you do not have food, you have hit rock bottom on the scale of
poverty. Hunger is a wide term and has many consequences for communities who do not have
access to sufficient food supplies.
Whether it's following a famine, as a result of conflict or a simple lack of resources,
Christian Hands understands the varied approach needed to alleviate the consequences of hunger
and tackle its root causes.
Imagine the world really was one village...
...would we be distressed that our neighbours were starving? The world produces enough food to
feed everyone, but 25,000 people are dying each day from hunger.
The world population may have increased by 70% since the 1970s, but the amount of food
produced in the world has increased even more! There is actually enough to provide everyone in
the world with at least 2,720 kcal per person per day (compare this to the UK, where the
recommended calorie intake for men is 2550 kcal per day).
Of those under-nourished who manage to live despite lack of food, 800 million are
undernourished. This chronic malnutrition makes life into a seemingly endless misery of ill-health
and weakness. Almost a third of all children in developing countries are underweight or have
stunted growth. Hungry children find it difficult to learn and are less able to resist illnesses.
When whole communities are starved, people feel ill all the time, they have low energy levels and
sometimes are too ill to even work and support their families. Hunger ensures millions of people
remain trapped in a cycle of poverty.
The solution out of this state of constant suffering is as simple as it is vital:
providing nutritious food for the hungry.

3. For all these reasons, food distribution has always been a focal part of Christian Hands' work. We
want to help you help those who are desperate for the simple joy of a plateful of hot food and a
happy family that is free from the desperation of hunger.
Responses to hunger
Food is a vital component of living and health. When people cannot access food, hunger expresses
itself in many different and often complicated ways. Christian Hands responds to these diverse
needs by providing short-term emergency relief following a famine or emergency to longer-term
food projects which keep communities self-sufficient for generations.
Emergency Relief: A Time for Action
In the developing world, the aftermaths of cyclones, earthquakes and other calamities are made
much worse because of existing poverty. Without the safety net of insurance, savings and
accessible transport, people are left helpless with nothing to fall back on when disaster strikes.
Missing that crucial window of opportunity straight after disaster strikes is simply
not an option - for survivors it can make the difference between life and death.
Christian Hands was first established when devastating floods ravaged many semi-urban
communities near Lahore City of Pakistan. We’ve been present on the ground for widely
publicized disasters such as the Asian Tsunami of 2004,. Christian Hands provided 40 emergency
shelters
Tents for families made homeless in the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan.
Safe Water: The Fight for Drops of Life
It's easy to forget how much we need safe water. This is the essential of life which many are denied
access to.
For over a billion people, life's most pressing challenge is gaining easy access to safe, clean
drinking water. Poor health due to unclean water and conflict surrounding scarce water sources
prevents many from escaping the poverty trap.
The link between unsafe water and poverty
When children and adults have drunk contaminated water, illness prevents them from attending
school or work.
In fact, at any given time half of the world's hospital beds are occupied by patients suffering from
a water-related disease. Having adults too ill to work means a loss of labour and wages and this
inevitably damages the economy of desperately poor countries.
Children drinking dirty water results in them staying home to recover, often suffering chronic
conditions which means they are not able to complete school or go into the working world.
Approximately 443 million school days are lost in this way each year due to children suffering
from water-related illness.
In this way, having only contaminated water to drink damages health, debilitates an economy and
ensures the cycle of poverty and dependence continues on.
Water use around the world
It is often startling to think of the difference in how much water people around the world use.

4. From the drought-stricken to the plentiful, here is a chart showing the average water use per
person per day according to the United Nations Development Program.
The many approaches to water
There are a myriad of different ways Christian Hands addresses the safe water needs of different
communities. Some serve individual families; others can serve thousands of people in a single
town. Here is an overview of how Christian Hands works to address water needs around the
world:
In numbers: The global water crisis
800 million
people on the planet don't have access to clean drinking water
88%
of all diseases are caused by drinking unsafe water and inadequate sanitation
90%
of the 30,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water are children under five
Get Involved
We can all do our bit to help eradicate poverty.
Whether it's signing up to the mailing list to stay informed, finding out about ways you can help
us or getting your organization or business to help, if you have the enthusiasm we have the ideas.
Volunteer
You are a treasure trove of skills, experience and potential!
Our volunteers are invaluable to us and help us to reach out further and further. Our volunteering
scheme is designed to find you rewarding and beneficial activities which match your skills and
impact communities in the long term.
Events
Our events are a great way for you to get involved with our work, help raise funds for a great cause
and create some life-long memories along the way.
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Your donations

5. We take your donations very seriously, and when you donate towards a particular cause or project,
we make sure we have the teams and resources to direct your donation towards the people and
communities who need it most.
Beliefs and values
Dedicated to tackling the root causes of poverty around the world, Christian Hands is passionate
about eradicating the many inequalities around us and committed to the long term development
of building a fairer, safer world.
Christian Hands aims to provide an ethical service for the collection and distribution of funds in
an effective, efficient, transparent and wholly accountable manner.