Why Make India Our Focus?
We get asked this question a lot.
See the bank note above? This is 10 Indian Rupees.
The average McDonalds worker makes $15.00 dollars/hour in the U.S.
10 Indian Rupees is the combined pay of a family working for a day’s pay in India
10 Indian Rupees=$0.13
Giving By Check
Give through check to PO Box 1238, Enumclaw WA 98022 and make the check out to Global Helps Network. If you would like your donation designated for a specific ministry, please include a separate note indicating where you would like the funds to go. If you have any questions, feel free to contact Mic McDaniel at Mic@globalhelpsnetwork.org.
Where Your Money Goes
Community Health Workers: A Lifeline to Those Without Access
Our workers teach about bacteria, dietary health, hygiene, pregnancy, and children’s nutrition. They also act as an emergency lifeline to the villages they are assigned with training and tools for immediate first aid care.
Each Community Health Worker is trained with the supervision of a practicing nurse and provides regular check-ups for their patients. Our workers also maintain a health chart for each patient, which, in most cases, will be the first time health records are kept for the individual. Registering live births is also an important part of the job. Most villages where we work do not have access to basic healthcare, medicines, or vaccines.
Vocational Training: Helping Rural Women Shine
In India, a large number of rural women and girls are illiterate or semiliterate, economically disadvantaged, and rely on their male family members for basic needs. Sewing and embroidery are two skills that help women balance their roles as homemakers and wage-earners.
Women were disproportionately affected by unemployment and poverty during the Covid-19 pandemic. They are often forced to rely on men (many who mistreat and abuse them) for everything because they lack a source of income. The situation worsens if the men are also unemployed. Women’s empowerment can be achieved through self-reliance and financial independence, which can be achieved through vocational training that allows women to start their own business or take up a job.
Computer Literacy: Skills for the Future
We believe computer literacy is not only a necessary but also a critical component. Because computer literacy is the pillar of a progressive and evolving nation, it deserves equal attention to food, shelter, and clothing. Given the growing demand for computers in all fields, we can include computer literacy in the basic needs because of the growing need for it in India.
In one of our computer centers, we trained eighteen students grade 7 to 11, from downtrodden peoples in a basic computer courses and in English (the trade language of India). Our students come from the city slums. Some were without parents or living on street helping their families reclaim garbage and waste that they might be able to resell in some way. Our center enabled these children living in slum areas to receive an education they would have been denied otherwise and gives them hope for a different future.
Education: The Importance of School for the Future
India has a population of over 1.2 billion people, with only one-third of them being able to read and write. Some of the country’s most difficult challenges include population growth, shortages of teachers, books, and basic facilities, and providing proper education to the poor. This is where North Indian children face their most basic challenges.
In India, girls account for a disproportionately large share of all out-of-school children. Child labor in India and opposition to sending girls to school in certain sections of the country continue to be serious challenges. Millions of impoverished children will almost certainly never enter a classroom if the current pattern continues.
We, as Global Helps Network, are changing the lives of marginalized children in North India by offering free tuition lessons to the needy. It is critical that every child benefits from great education in order to develop a better India.
Bringing Clean Water to Communities in Need
The right to water is really the right to life and livelihood. Just as we cannot live without water, a country cannot survive if it is water-stressed. This resource determines our future, and acts as a driving force for economic growth.
Even today, India admits to not being able to provide safe drinking water to more than half the country’s population. Poor sanitation and unsafe drinking water account for a substantial part of the disease burden in India, contributing to diarrhea, cholera, typhoid and jaundice.
We have successfully installed BioSand Water Filter systems in a local elementary school and women’s and juvenile prisons where the water quality was contaminated. Rotary Tacoma South partners with us annually to start vocational training in remote villages in how to construct these simple yet highly effective concrete filters. Our training provides jobs and a sustainable way to produce and distribute filters to the community. Every clean water project sees our graduates start their own small business.