Our humanitarian projects!
Every time we experience the third world, our compassion is stirred to help those in need. Our two main objectives are to help street kids and work actively against human trafficking. In addition, we have several other projects like drilling wells, helping single mothers, providing rice, blankets and food after natural catastrophes, or like in one of the poorest regions of Africa, northern Mombasa, where TLM financed the constructing and equipping of an entire operation and delivery ward.
Wells, hospitals, and projects
Right now we are drilling wells in Nepal and northern India for the villages that are “untouchable.” They don’t have access to clean water, which leads to major suffering. We have drilled more than 30 wells and we continue to do so, because the need is so great.
In Kenya we support the continual costs of operation for our operation and delivery ward.
We also provide aid to single mothers in the slums of Bangalore, India, so that their children can go to school. We provide food and school supplies.
Every child has a sad story to tell
TLM works through children’s villages, which are built as family units consisting of a mother and a father who take care of the children in a home environment. The children are often the ones who seek help from our centers, because they have nowhere else to go.
Some of the children have been so hurt by the lives they have lived, that it takes a long time just to help them function in a socially normal environment. They have never lived in a family! They have never been hugged or loved. Their lives have been completely destroyed, but nobody is beyond the reach of Jesus! Miracles happen, and children have an amazing capacity to get better, and their lives be restored once they arrive at a safe place where they receive love and care.
Today we are actively supporting orphanages and children’s centers in Ethiopia, Israel, India and Nepal.
Working to prevent human trafficking, and taking care of its victims!
It is hard to imagine, but in the poor villages of the third world, young men and women are getting tricked! Many of them can’t read or write. So when the disguised leagues come and promise them well-paid jobs, so that they can send money home, the children believe them.
These kids become easy prey. Every time we help and prevent them from being sold, we are saving lives!
Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal activity in the world right now.
Once a woman has been sold into a brothel, it’s usually for life. It’s nearly impossible to purchase the freedom of a sex slave, because the owner of the prostitute knows how much money they will make off them in just a few years.
That is why we work both to prevent human trafficking, as well as to help those who have managed to escape.
Prevention: Every month our team visits at-risk villages to tell them about human trafficking. They explain how to identify the men who visit the villages with false promises to trick young women.
Direct action: Every day our teams are working at some of the busiest border crossings into India. We have a hut at one of the main bus stations on the border. If there is a young woman onboard who our team suspects is on her way to be forced into prostitution, they ask her questions and help her leave.
In 2022 we rescued 50 girls by boarding the different buses on their way to India.
Government and training. We provide information to different branches of government, journalists, police, etc. about what is happening..
Career training. We provide women who are in the risk group or whom we have rescued, with the opportunity to get career training. We have trained many seamstresses, which is an excellent way to give women an income, which is the best way to avoid getting sold. Through the years our efforts in individual cases have literally been life-saving!
Our humanitarian aid projects are a great way to tell about Jesus, by becoming the hands and feet of Jesus. One girl, who got pregnant in the brothel, managed to escape, but had nowhere to go, and was close to jumping from a bridge with her baby. But then a thought came to her, to go to TLM’s center! She did, and today she is a seamstress and has gotten her life back
Would you like to be the hands and feet of Jesus? Support one of our humanitarian projects. It is amazing what we can accomplish – together!