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‘’This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Judge fairly, and show mercy and kindness to one another. Do not oppress widows, orphans, foreigners, and the poor. And do not scheme against each other.''
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Although Project Held seems like a small foundation, we make a huge difference in the lives of hundreds of children and our hearts are overflowing with gratitude.
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It may seem like a drop in the ocean, but we see that, together with all our loyal sponsors, we really do make a difference in the lives of the children. In this newsletter, we want to take you along in what we have been able to do for these children in the past period.
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Emotional testimony
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As you can imagine, the children we support have often been through a lot before they were taken in. See here a beautiful testimony from our contact person in Uganda! She tells us that years ago she found a girl in a cemetery in South Sudan where this girl lived. She was lovingly taken in and grew up in the children's home.
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The girl fought her way through life! A few months ago she was allowed to participate in a Father's Heart retreat in Jinja. Project Held helps to pay for these retreats for the young adults within our projects. We have now seen that these are truly life-changing weeks. See here the beautiful and emotional testimony of a homeless girl who became a daughter of God!
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Domestic violence in Kosovo
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Arben (a fictitious name for his safety) is a boy from Kosovo who has been through a lot in his young life. His family lives in extreme poverty, the family of four children has been supported by Project Held for some time. Recently their situation has deteriorated even further. After a recent domestic escalation, where the situation became so serious that the authorities had to intervene, Arben's mother was forced to leave their home together with the children in a hurry.
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Given that the father provides the main income, the family is facing a huge challenge to build a new life with nothing. Although they have found temporary shelter, urgent help is needed to support them in this difficult time. With the help of the local church, Stichting de Brug and Project Held, the costs for the apartment for the coming year are covered. Furthermore, €3250 is needed to cover the other costs, such as water, electricity and groceries. We have started a campaign to raise this amount for this family. In the meantime, €1295 has already been raised! If you want to help this family, you can do so by donating via the link below.
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Maintenance on the Nofam app
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Last weekend, the Nofam app, which allows you to correspond with your sponsor child and the project he/she is part of, had a major maintenance. As far as we can see, this went well. We would like to ask you to log in (again) to the app, so that you can continue to receive notifications from your sponsored child(ren). This notifications reminds you that you received something in the app or that it is time to share something with your sponsor child again.
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We also want to use the app for multiple purposes in the future. So that you as a sponsor become an ambassador for the project that your sponsor child is part of. For example, by sharing a child that does not yet have a sponsor with friends or family or sharing updates about the project on social media. In this way, together we make an even bigger difference for these children! In this way, you can make a big difference with a small action! Of course, we will keep you informed about this via our social media and newsletter!
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Floods in India
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In recent months, India has seen a lot of rain and several rivers have flooded. The Vijayawada district was hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall in early September. Given that two of our projects were located there, this was an heavy time. Fortunately, there was no damage to the Project Held children and the homes, but they are struggling with the fact that there is little transport, little food and more vermin than usual.
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However, we have received an emergency call from our project leaders to help the population, who already do not have much, with food and clean drinking water. We at Project Held help where we can, but if you would also like to help these people to provide for their basic needs, you can do so via the link below.
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*If a bank transfer is not possible for you, you can always make an additional donation via Paypal
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Schools in Kenya have also started again
In Europe, schools have all started again, and also in Africa! In our country, it is normal that children go to school and everything is generally well organised. Unfortunately, this is not the case in Kenya, for example… In our previous newsletter, you could read that the Hopeforhope project in Kenya has started its own school and that this comes with its own challenges. One of the requests for help that came in from our contact person was a major shortage of school desks. As a result, the children cannot go to school.
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From Project Held we have decided to donate 10 school desks, € 30,- each, so that 30 more children can go to school. More school desks are still needed, if you would like to help with this you can donate a school desk via our webshop!
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Click here and see how thankful and happy they are.
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Thank you for your involvement with our projects and children. It makes such a big difference to our projects to know that they are not alone. We and/or they don't do it alone, we do it together!
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We wish you a very blessed day, from Project Held, Viviane and Tine
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