HOPE SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL’S FIVE-FOLD MISSION. Step One: Provide clean safe water. We believe everyone deserves clean water. Our emphasis is on the word “clean” because in many part of the world water is available in wet weather streams shared with animals, hand dug Wells that are open to run off during the rainy season and other types of contamination. Thousands of children die each year from diarrhea, dysentery and malaria and other childhood disease. These deaths could be prevented with simple medications and mosquito nets. Our health centers treat thousands of patients each year and prevent simple illnesses from progressing to life threatening situations. Step Three: Food Security. We provide training in skills like Drip Irrigation which can with only minimal amounts of water provide a crop of heathy food for a family. We also provide training in raising small animals for food as well as chickens for eggs and fish is also available when a Well is available. Step Four: Education. Kofi Annan said, “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope.” Basic skills like reading and writing are the keys to learning. Without these basic skills people are forever trapped in deep poverty with no options to better their lives. Hope Spring’s emphasis is on the next generation. The children who have the talent and ability to learn new things, new skills. Children who still have the ability to dream of a better future. Step Five: Micro Finance. Our goal for the future is to develop our own program or partner with existing successful organizations to provide this kind of training for communities where we work. Our goal above all is for people to come to know Christ as savior! Our ministry is to the whole person, both physically and spiritually. WHERE WE WORK TODAY:
GOMBE STATE, NIGERIA:
1. We have a large scale Well drilling operation focused on the poorest areas of this state. More than 200,000 people have received clean safer water so far.
2. In cooperation with the local government and funds provided by the World Bank we have helped to establish a number of health centers and schools throughout Gombe State.
3. We recently completed construction of a Skills Acquisition Center on five acres of land where we hope to provide skills training in farming, animal husbandry and other skills in the future.
4. In neighboring Borno State five young men have recently completed a two year long Evangelist Training School and are ready to enter the mission field. DONO-MANGA, CHAD:
1. We have a health center that has been in operations for eleven years. We have a staff of 12 that includes 2 nurses, a mid-wife, and other support personnel. The center treats three to four thousand people per year. An average of 10 babies are born here each month.
2. We also care for 125 Orphans.
3.We have an elementary, secondary, and senior secondary school with an enrollment of 1,237 students. Our campus has ten school buildings with two classrooms each. French, English, the Bible are all taught with other basic skills for each grade level.
4. We have a trailer mounted Well drilling machine and have provided clean safe water to more than 50,000 people in this area. SOURA, NIGER:
1. We have a new health center that was recently built and is now open with a staff of five.
2. Our donors provided funds for a 40ft container with more than 300,000 highly nutritious food packet to provide nutritious food for hundreds of children here suffering from Malnutrition.
3. Last year our donors provided funds for more than 40 hand drilled Wells for agriculture purposes because of insufficient rain during the rainy season. Many of the people of Soura can now produce multiple crops each year. We want to provide an additional 40 Wells for other areas of this very large community of 16,000 people.
4. Even though Niger is 97% Muslim we are able to have a special outreach to teens and younger children. Our team has been working for the past 12 years with more than 500 young people teaching them about Christ. Many of the leaders on our team today came to Christ in the early days of this ministry and are in turn leading others to Christ today. This is possible because one young Nigerien couple wanted to take the Gospel to their home area of Soura, Niger.
