We Need Your Help

We have encountered so many real needs in our time here that we can't possibly meet them all financially. Just getting to India took a majority of the funds we had and now that we are here we are struck by how far a dollar will go to change someone's life. We understand that there will always be great need in India as well as around the world, but we feel that this is a rare opportunity to directly meet immediate needs. Here are a list of needs that we have personally encountered that, as much as we would like to, we have been unable to pay for.

• Two goats for the leper colony shown in this post - ($150)
• Chicken food for the farm at the other leper colony. This is how the colony remains self sufficient without begging. Their supply is dwindling and they can't afford the upkeep for the chicken farm.- ($15 a bag)
  
• Crutches for the woman mentioned in the last post. We were unable to buy them at that time because of other needs that arose. - ($8)
• New thatch roof for a local pastor's home which is currently uninhabitable due to heavy rainfall. We will be doing the labor we just need to pay for supplies. - ($150)
• One nutritious meal for a whole leper colony. - ($100-$120)
• Scales to help beggars become self-sufficient. People pay to weigh themselves (it's strangely popular) -($30)
• Twenty five blankets for the homeless - ($55)
  
• Tarps for the homeless - ($12)
• Chairs for the leper colony - ($3 each)
• Bicycles for pastors with 3 hour plus commutes - ($70)
• One woman runs the orphanage of 40 children without any salary other than room and board. We'd like to bless her if we can.

Please contact Ben at " bcarson@spu.edu " if you would like to help us meet these needs. Many of you have already blessed us with so much support and we are incredibly grateful. Thank you.