WORD OF HOPE EMPOWERMENT MINISTRIES
(DISCIPLESHIP MISSION)
P.O. Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Tel +256-774702292
BACKGROUND
Pastor Baraza and the wife Josephine Barasa started the Ministry when they saw a need in the Communities they received a heart for the persecuted and outcast Moslems coverts to Christianity who changed with religious treason. The call included Or
phans widows and Pastors’ children Welfare and Education after having a critical and close study of how orphans and Pastor’s children had fewer no bodies to care about them. Felt Good calling them in Mercy Ministries. They began with giving out their possessions like mattresses, clothes, cooking utensils to those who were lacking. They stirred the Church towards this Ministry to an extent that the Church members who had more than two clothes brought some of them; others brought money, watches and shoes which were given to the needy. The Church has many mercy programmes but with none about the children of Pastors who are dropping out of school having no adequate medical care and even under nourished because lesser or no support to pastors and yet these are the people who spend almost al their life, on other peoples physical welfare. WORD OF HOPE EMPOWERMENT MINISTRIES
WHEM is a twelve progrmmes, Christian Organisation with God’s real heart of concern to the orphans, widows, street children, people with disabilities, & the poor. It is a Ministry with an open hand to other services or help in different areas of need to the needy in the society. WHEM is an empowerment Ministry, as it doesn’t degrade the need by making them feel department, helpless and useless. It rather builds up their dignity and responsibility by giving them a sense of their importance and be able to help others rather than making them dependant & retarded on the help they receive. NOTE: People are truly helped & charged when they too begin helping & reaching to others instead of just thinking about their own needs and problems Eph:28. WHEM is also concerned about the born again from the Muslim Community who are always thrown out of home & denied their rights of family membership, education and care being accused of ‘Religion treason’. To such WHEM will offer help where needed. The twelve programmes of WHEM.
1. Lost soul Redemption programme
2. Feeding programme
3. Medical and Health Care programme
4. Safe water provision programme
5. Education programme
6. Job skill training program
7. Widow/Orphan habitation and adoption programme
8. Farming development programme
9. Dress and cover programme
10. Sensitize awareness of AID/HIV Virus programme
11. Preserve environment programme
12. Pigs and goats keeping programme. WORD OF HOPE EMPOWERMENT MINISTRIES GOALS:
1. Through deep feeling and compassion to reach out to the needy with aid to help them out of the hopeless life.
2. To help the orphans and widows gain a sense of importance and responsibility in society.
3. To make street children and disabled know that what their future demands is more than the temporary “coin-help” on streets but a real inner and outer healing and revival to a complete new life.
4. To entirely change and restore their distorted self-image. To make them discover them they too can lead an average standard human life as any other person.
5. To give them opportunity of education and learning skills of being self supportive.
6. To raise them up to a purposeful life by encouraging them to join cooperative groups and work together without despising themselves any more.
7. To offer them their freedom and respective rights in exercising their acquired and Good give talents in different fields.
8. To empower them to be involved in productive activities to develop their nation.
9. To see to it that street children, widows, orphans and disabled are accepted, received and assimilated into society. They should be provided with habitation, orphanage homes, shelters and adoption.
10. To seriously plead their case and refute the unmerciful greedy plunder of widows and orphans’ property after death of their parents and husbands
11. To appeal to government officials, the parliament and other responsible people to address this issue in the parliament, in the media and in diverse meetings with the same and enthusiasm as they debate other issues. OBJECTIVES:
1. To bring back man’s image to the original plan of God.
2. To consider the handicapped as our fellow equal creatures
3. To have a sense of feeling with what others feel.
4. To show a giving heart towards the needy and not only being self centered minding about our own needs only. It is more blessed to give than to receive.
5. To uphold the outcast and the persecuted for Christ’s sake.
6. To raise up children with a purpose in life.
7. To defend children children’s rights, fighting against child abuse, premarital marriages by applying God’s word
8. To sensitise our communities about the awareness of AIDS/HIV virus in order to reduce the number of Aids victims in our growing population.
9. To help our communities to develop skills in how to preserve the environment by teaching them how to use the natural resources available and also how to maintain them for example tree planting. VISION:
Through God’s provision and partnership WHEM has a vision of putting in place the following things for the ennoblements of all its programmes.
1. Feeding centre (s)
2. Acquiring 200 hectares for farming programme.
3. Farming machines and water pumping machines
4. Medical and health care centres with medicines
5. Digging of boreholes and installation of piped water
6. (a) Putting up schools from Nursery – S.6
(b) Adult Education Centre
(c) Polytechnic schools and computer training centre.
7. Habitation for homeless widows and children
8. Opening up garment store for the needy.
9. Inviting Social workers to teach self-help project in order to begin in small business, rearing poultry, fish farming, agriculture, hot culture etc.
10. Mobilizing and teaching the communities the dangers of AIDS/HIV Viruses, teaching them the fear of Good video shows about the AIDs victims blood checking at counseling at local levels etc.
11. Teaching and training, beginning Nursery beds, buying land and mobilizing the community.
1. LOST SOUL REDEMPTION PROGRAMME:
Since Adam’s fall in sin, man has lived in a lost and depraved life. There is need for redemption of man. But thank God, there is an answer: Jesus Christ. These programmes will ensure that the good news of Jesus Christ seeks and finds a sinner wherever he/she might be found. (Even in prisons and Hospitals). This will be done by all methods available:-
i. Door to door evangelism
ii. Open air outreaches
iii. Acts of mercy
iv. Distribution of tracts and Bibles
FEEDING PROGRAMME:
The need for proper food is one of the most urgent and desperate needs to human life. Tens of millions of African Children suffer from malnutrition retarded physical and mental development, diseases, disability and death. Lack of enough food has been one of the reasons why children have left their homes and turned out to be street children
The feeding programmes role is to see to it that famine stricken people especially orphans. Poor nutrition has been the greatest cause of poor health, theft and murder. Orphans, widows, disabled and street children, are provided with low cost relief foodstuffs. This is proposed to be conducted as follows: cooked food to be given:
- At least once in a week to the street children
- At least twice a week to the widows and to the disabled
- Grain supply to those who can utilize them for more production
Fresh food and foods like Posho, beans etc will only be given to those who already have homes like orphans in their orphanages and widows. There is a need of opening a feeding centre to the homeless. FARMING DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME:
Farming is the source of food and Africa’s main source of income
Our economy is based mainly on farming. Poor farming has been the main cause of poverty in many parts of Africa. This programme will have to:-
1. Introduce relevant methods for farming improving by use of scientific methods.
2. Provide easy farming machines and tools on Tractors. Ox-ploughs, hand ploughs for the filling of wide areas for great production.
3. Introduce group farming
4. Do poultry keeping, cattle keeping (dairy), bee keeping etc.
5. (a) Introduce the use of irrigation (especially in Lake and Riverside
places) and not only depending on rainy seasons which are
changing time to time. (b) Provide water-pumping machines. MEDICAL AND HEALTH CARE PROGRAMME:
Poor health remains the most serious problem in Africa due to Tropical diseases and parasites. Many deaths have occurred due to few Medical Units whose services are upto date. HIV/AIDS is a lamentation song sung every where by every one religious leaders, political leaders, NGO workers, but without solutions. Poor people, orphans, widows have not afforded to visit hospitals where treatment of some diseases are too expensive for them. People have suffered from and died of sickness such as listed below because of lack of adequate treatment and care.
1. Malaria – an outstanding killer disease in Africa with no vaccine. Young children from poor families where they can’t afford to buy a mosquito net or insect sides have died innumerably. Those who live along way away from health centres have either died or left epileptic due to severe febrile malaria that attacks children and causes convulsions and unconsciousness to the victim. The result is recurring convulsions and finally epilepsy. Adults have run mad because of cerebral malarial God help Africa.
2. Bilharzia a deadly disease caused by drinking unsafe water whose treatment is one of the most expensive ones.
3. Cholera – an instant dehydration killer disease caused by poor sanitation.
4. Ebola, meningitis etc among many, many others have become life devastors.
5. HIV/AIDS – though this is an unsolved global problem, Africa has been the highest degree sufferer of lives looser. Lack of tender care, lack of relieving drugs and far away – located health services especially to people in up country has caused the AIDS problem even more dangerous. Many orphans, widows and street children have been a product of this disease. Therefore, the Medical and Health care programme will ensure that:
1. Medical care and counseling extends near to people in up Country.
2. Medical learns are invited from every where in the world
3. Mosquito nets, insecticides and up date malaria drugs are provided science is taught to the community.
4. Digging & building pit latrines to the poor improve sanitation. Health science is taught to the community.
5. Health units are proved where services can be easily reached. SAFE WATER PROVISION PROGRAMME:
As it truly stands, water is life. But unsafe water is good as poison. Lack of unsafe water has caused many deaths in many instances. Many people, especially in rural areas have suffered a lot as a result of drinking unclean water. People drink water from un protected wells, ponds, and cisterns. Poor sanitation and unsafe water has caused the spread of fast killing diseases as Bilharzia, cholera, Tape and Hook worms etc.
1. Safe water supply reaches the needy – boreholes must be provided
2. Water treatment before use is practiced. EDUCATION PROGRAMME:
There is no other future investment than education. Education is wealth, power and success. Though education is encouraged by government, there are still a lot of children who don’t go to school especially orphans who lack somebody (parents) to motivate them. In rural areas, children which physical disabilities & ailments have very little or no chance at all of going to school. The result has birthed street children, thugs, drug-addicts, and the jobless that has become the order of the day in cities. And NOBODY is minding. The education programme will prepare the future of these people by:-
1. Teaching Literacy – this will be able to provide
(a) Primary Education – (P.1 – P.7)
(b) Senior Secondary Education (S.1 – S.6)
(c) Adult Education.
2. Offering education sponsorship and scholarships
3. Putting a strong emphasis on girl child education and strongly fight against molesting girl – children so that they rise to a balanced level of human status in the society.
4. Empowering both boy and girl children to actively exercise their talents in fields of games and sports, Drama, Music and others. JOB SKILL TRAINING PROGRAMME:
According to the vast number of the needy (orphans, widows, the disabled and the jobless) and according to job competition due to few job opportunities, it is a wasted to effort to offer them education, financial and material support without preparing them to sustain themselves. NOBODY can help you forever!. Therefore this programme is meant to offer job skill training for self employment. Proposed job skills include:-
1. Commercial cooking
2. Weaving
3. Tailoring
4. Carpentry and furniture making
5. Plumbing
6. Automobile repair
7. Electrical repair
8. Building
9. Computer Secretarial work
10. Brick making
11. Baker work
12. Farming
(a) Crop growing
(b) Livestock keeping
(c) Poultry keeping
(d) Bee keeping
Remember, give me a fish, you will be able to feed me for a meat but give me a net and teach me how to fish and I will be able to feed myself and others for life. WIDOW/ORPHAN HOME AND ADOPTION PROGRAMME:
Many children loitering in cities well known by the name street children are children with no caring home any where on planet earth!. While some few of them were enticed to leave home by some body and go to towns “search for work” the greatest number of children on streets came from homes, which were too poor to cater for them, or from homes where they were physically and psychologically fortuned due to divorce and broken marriage relationships. As such, children resorted to going in cities in hope of an opportunity at ‘earning a living’ for themselves which unfortunately only resulted into this big filthy name, STREET CHILDREN: seeing that the worse had become the worst, they resorted to becoming addicted to drugs in an attempt to prevent the memories and thoughts about their desolated homes, and to becoming pick pockets and thugs which has caused many unnoticed and uncared about deaths to them! God help. Like orphans, according to African Culture, widows are people without any say. The moment the husband dies, all her home property and land is taken by the brothers and relatives of the deceased. Poor lady is ordered to get married to a given heir or leave the home with NOTHING. “You came alone and you must go alone”, They mock, this has left many widows wanderers without home and help. If her house falls down, nobody is ready to help her build or repair it. The same story applies to the disabled. Therefore it is the mandate of the WHEM’s programme to provide help by:
1. Building orphanage homes with proper home environment and care.
2. Setting up habitations for street children
3. Building simple homes and shelter for homeless widows.
4. Looking for volunteers to adopt some of these orphan and street children
5. Building orphan and widow directorate offices. COVER AND DRESS PROGRAMME:
Since orphans, widows, the disabled and street children have no body to care about them, they lead the hardest life in all aspects of living. Many have been stricken by pneumonia and the like diseases caused by coldness. A great deal of them sleep without anything with which to cover themselves to keep warm in the cold night. Some have only one dress that they have to wash every night before they put it on the following morning. Others, the same dresses they put on during day time is the same clothes key use for covering themselves at night. What a miserable life! This programme is to provide for:-
1. Coverings – blankets, bed sheets and shoes
2. Clothing
3. Other domestic utensils like saucepans, plates mugs etc. REQUIRED RESOURCES:
According to the importance of WHEM and the commitment towards the sensitive global affecting issue, there is great need and demand for both entirely committed human resources, financial resources and tangible material resources to address and combat this issue. These are the needed resources:
1. HUMAN RESOURCES:
(1) Field expects
(a) Agriculturalist
(b) Veterans
(c) Medical teams
(d) Councillors
(2) Donors
(3) NGOs
(4) Government
2. FINANCIAL RESOURCES:
(a) Money (all currencies available)
3. MATERIAL RESOURCES:
(a) Communication network facilities
(b) Transport
(c) Needed buildings
(d) Clothes and coverings
(e) Relief food
(f) Water facilities
(g) Drugs
APPEAL TO LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY:
WHEM is very glad to announce to you an open door and opportunity to both local and international community to join hands and intervene in rescuing the lives of the people of God above. WHEM is happy and invites all people world wide to work with it in partnership towards achieving its goals, objectives, vision and mission. To the local community this is the appeal. “Let us rise up and help our won people of our location. You may be very rich, but you can share the little you have with the needy. You can give your strength to work toward putting all the requirements in place. Your availability before them and the cheerful and encouraging words you speak to them s of great help and cure to their hearts (Prov. 15:30)”. To the international community, WHEM’s appeal is forwarded to political leaders, religious leaders, business men. NGO workers and to every man and woman to get their hearts touched and stirred to help whole heartedly in the matter. WHEM throws this challenge to you: “Don’t join us to help race, colour or third world but help BLOOD. All these needful people are of your real own blood. The colour of blood suffering and dying is the same colour you do possess. Remember, your BLOOD is your LIFE “join WHEM to save and defend our blood”. If you are moved and willing to enter partnership with WHEM please you are requested to fill in the COMMITMENT FORM below:
Donation Commitment Form
WORD OF HOPE EMPOWERMENT MINISTRIES
Donation Commitment Form
NAMUTUMBA, UGANDA
Phone: +256-774702292
[email protected]
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As with a commitment how you are going to sponsor according the program you have willing chosen to stand with us. Child Sponsorship Program
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