Five for India

Unfathomably vast, India is the second-largest nation on earth and has the world’s largest orphan population. West Bengal alone has more than 90 million people from 35 distinct ethnic groups. It is in this diverse state, whose people reside in huge metropolitan areas and tiny mountain villages, where Asia’s Hope will begin its work.

In West Bengal province, there are more than 100,000 prostitutes working in Kolkata's infamous brothels. Many of them are poor and orphaned children, who, having no one to protect them are at especially high risk of sexual exploitation. We know that the model we’ve successfully developed in Cambodia and Thailand — family-style children’s homes supported by individual congregations in North America — can be adapted for use in India, whose children are in desperate need of God’s transforming hope.

We believe that God will provide us the support we need to open 5 new children’s homes in 2012, employing a staff of 25 and providing homes for more than 125 orphaned children.

To do this, we need five churches, each willing to fully support one orphan home. These five churches will truly enter into a pioneering work, one that will require vision, passion and faith. 

These churches will provide the strong foundation that our organization needs to grow and flourish in India, and will create the first of many homes sponsored by North American churches. Their leadership will allow us to save the lives of hundreds of Indian orphans.

Laying the groundwork

Over the next year and a half, many things must fall into place for a successful establishment of new homes. Success for us means establishing godly partners to lead in India, creating loving, family-style, secure and safe home environments for the children most at risk of exploitation, building into any community of which our homes are a part through service and love to those in that community, and establishing a legitimately recognized organization with the government in India so that all homes built and all children within those homes will be safe and free to grow and develop as needed for a lifetime of care for the children being rescued. 

In August 2011, Executive Director John McCollum will lead an Asia’s Hope delegation to West Bengal, India, and will begin laying the groundwork for what we hope will be the first of many new children’s homes in India.

How you can help

If you have a heart for India and wish to support new opportunities for Asia’s Hope in India, please contact us for more information, or you can donate here