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Future Projects |
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We have received the following information from Pastor Jay and we would like to share it with you!
At All Things Indian, our aim is to work through the list and we would love to tick them off one by one until we reach the end of the list! BUT we need your help.... we need parties and sales so we can send that 40% over...
However the first project that has taken our interest was the baby's home and all that needs is $10,000. We are sure we can do it, and quickly! Can you imagine how it would be knowing that WE raised the funds for it?
 Budget Spreedsheet
Current Project
Future Project
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What our money buys |
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Child Sponsorship of $25 per month provides the following.
• Shelter
• Food
• Clothing
• Education
• Hope
• And a future
Our main goal at “All Things Indian” is to raise funds for the ICMC orphanage in India, we have
over 2,000 children of which over 1,400 don’t have sponsors, therefore there is a huge hole in
our funding, each day we use 1,500 kgs of rice as well as vegetables to go with the rice, the
children get meat once a week on Sundays and an egg twice a week.
We have plans in place to grow our own meat which is an expensive exercise but one that is
important to the well being of the children. It is our aim at ATI to provide as much funding to
help these precious children.
Some of the ways that our money can be spent is shown below.
• $10 buys new clothing for 1 child
• $80 buys a goat
• $100 buys a 75kg sack of rice
• $150 buys a calf
We have many other projects that are in constant stages of growth.
• We have approximately 30 acres to grow rice. However, we need more.
• We are currently building new Hostels for the children.
• We need to purchase some land within our property so we can expand our dam,
providing more water so we can grow more rice. (rice is grown under water)
• We still need to build more buildings to accommodate our children in schools. This
includes Colleges that will enable us to provide specific trades to our children. E.g.
Teacher training College, Nursing College and Engineering College
Other Future Projects
• We need a tractor to cultivate useful land.
Cost $13,500
• Mobile medical van. Cost $15,000
• School benches and desk as children now
sit on the cement floor. Cost $12,000
Hopefully as ATI grows each month we will be
able to provide funds for some of the
abovementioned projects, it is our dream to one
day provide enough funding to see all these plans
become a reality.
Marty and “friends”!
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Orphanage |
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A day in the life of an orphan at ICMC
• Wake up at 5am
• Roll up our sleeping mat and put it away. 6 of us share the one mat
• Have what we call a bath, which is using a bucket and pail to pour water over my self
• Put on my clean set of clothes
• Wash the clothes I just took off so I have clean clothes to wear tomorrow
• then we have a time of prayer, we pray for our sponsors, for our friends, our school and for Pastor Jay and Mrs. Christy
• After ½ hour of praying we have our breakfast.
• Then we do chores, some clean up, some sweep.
• Then we change into our school uniform for the day and go to school some walk some catch a bus depending on what school we go to
• When we come home we change out of our school uniform and put it away for the next day.
• We are allowed to play for an hour, then it is back to study for about 3 hours before dinner.
• We have dinner about 8pm
• After dinner we have another time of prayer, after prayer we study again for 1 hour
• Then it is time for bed, we sleep on a mat on the floor, under the mat is a concrete floor, we share this with between 1 and five other children depending on our ages.
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Sponsorship |
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Over the past ten years I have been the Australian Representative for the Indian
Christian Mission Centre (ICMC).
The main part of my role was to collect sponsorship money on a regular basis and
send it to India.
I have recently relinquished that role and have handed it over to Pastor John Van
Bennekom of the Springfield Christian Family Church. By doing this it releases me to
concentrate on building up “All Things Indian”.
Currently it cost AUD$25 per month with 95% of the funds going directly to the
Orphanage, approximately 600 of the over 2,000 children now have sponsors leaving
over 1,400 without.
$25 provides
• Shelter
• Food
• Clothing
• Education
• Hope
• And a future
One of the ways we would like to support the ICMC is to find additional sponsors for
the children. This will not be the main focus for raising funds. However, it is another
way that we can make a difference in a child’s life.
If at any stage you would be interested in sponsoring a child or if any of your hosts
or party guest shows an interest can you please refer them back to head office and
we will see to it that the person will be matched up with a lovely child that they can
sponsor.
Thank you
Marty Isaac
Director
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A Message from Pastor Jay |
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 Hello
My name is Pastor Jay and I would like to share with
you a bit about my life.
When I was about 6 years old both my father and
mother died, also my two brothers died and it was
left to my grandparents to raise me.
They took me to a Palm reader and he said that I was
a curse and that is the reason that so many of my family died. He told my grandfather that
they should kill me to remove the curse from them as well. My grandfather took me back to
the village and when he told my grandmother she was horrified, she pleaded with my
grandfather saying that I was old enough to beg and that he should send me away.
I begged for a while but it was not a very good life so I went back to my grandparents and
asked if I could live with them again. They took me in but it was on the condition that
each day I would have to make a grass mat. It was hard work and most days I was not
able to complete the work, each day I didn’t complete a mat I would receive a beating, my
life was very sad and full of misery, it would have been better if I had died.
Some time later when I was about 10 years old a Dutch man came through our village, he
asked if there were any orphaned children, very quickly my grandparents gave me to this
man. He took me to an orphanage called Bethel and it was here that I spent the rest of
my adolescent years growing up.
It was the opportunity that I was looking for, I studied hard at school and after a slow
start got good grades, I wanted to become an engineer but the director of Bethel said I
should consider becoming a Pastor and I decided to take on this challenge.
I was very good at being a Pastor I started 8 churches in Bombay and then in 1997 I was
asked to go to America to run a big Church. I said that I didn’t want to go and that my
dream was to start my very own orphanage. So in 1998 I did it! With my wife I started an
orphanage in a small rented house, we took in 12 small children, this number grew quickly
and now we run 3 centres: Eden Garden on about 15 acres with 200 boys, Salem Office
with 3 hostels and about 400 children and the Promised Land on 90 acres with over 1,400
children, and we also run 3 school and 2 colleges.
Out of the 2,000 children about 600 have sponsors, we still
need to find sponsors for the other 1,400 children.
I have 3 children of my own and they are being trained so
that they can eventually take over after I retire.
It is my dream to one day provide care for 5,000 children.
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