Serving Our World is an international charity with the aim of having programs all over the world. Two of such programs are being run currently in Thailand and East Timor.

THAILAND:

Thailand’s capital city is Bangkok, which is in Southeastern Asia.

This small country has a population of almost 70 million people, half of whom are depending on agriculture as a way to make a living. Amidst the natural beauty of Thailand, lies poverty, which has engulfed rural communities.

Every day, little children and their families are struggling as they have no constant source of relief, but through the generosity and sacrifice of charitable organizations and people like you, they have a hope and a future.

Several communities are in a state of abject poverty and in some cases, religion serves to reinforce local attitudes towards the needy.

The local people in Thailand are over 85% Buddhist. One of our nationals we work with shared that some Buddhists believe that orphaned children are only getting what they deserve as a result of being bad in a former life. This is because they believe it is the child’s destiny to work it out and to do better in this life and hopefully that will change their future. In this type of environment, it becomes even more difficult for a child to live and survive with these roadblocks to overcome each day.

It is attitudes like these that Serving Our World seeks to redress, by showing the children and the community love in action and offering many opportunities for education and skills training also by getting whole communities involved in building a family around widows and orphaned children. Serving Our World will pair children who are orphaned or abandoned with widows and qualified, trained teams, thus rebuilding a family unit for both the children and the women where love and security are nurtured. This way, more than one need is met and ultimately the community benefits from our efforts.

EAST TIMOR:

East Timor is located in Southeastern Asia, a small country with a population of less than one million people.

In this country, roughly 60% of the natives are young adults of whom 90% are unemployed. And for every two people, one is illiterate.

There is no access to electricity or clean water for a large amount of Timorese. As half of the nation is living below the poverty line, East Timor was officially classified as Asia’s poorest country. A strong cloud of desperation hangs above the heads of children and families, unable to build a home for their loved ones or build a life for themselves.

Young Timorese children have to struggle daily to survive, with little or no access to education, illiteracy grows, trapping the minds and futures of the young natives of East Timor.

Little children are abandoned daily by parents who cannot afford to care for them and some women have to run away from home due to threatened violence, rape and forced marriages.

Often called The Still Born Nation or The Betrayed, the people of East Timor try to survive on an average minimum wage of $500 a year. For some of us, that is a new suit, for others, a pair of shoes. But, for a family in East Timor, that is their only chance for survival.

These children did not cause the wars and yet they are suffering because of it. Unless you and I do something for them today, they will live a life filled with hunger, pain and uncertainty. These people still deserve a chance to build a community that is safe and enduring.

The Serving Our World family strives to give them that chance. Please become a part of our effort and make a difference.

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