Compassion Projects

 

Demonstrating the love of Christ through orphanages, medical camps, literacy and development programs, AIDS education, skilled-labor training programs, scholarships for poor and needy students and technological training. 

God is using Partners India compassion projects to be a doorway to get the Gospel across to the needy people and eventually plant a church.

Partners India conduct ongoing Medical, Literacy and AIDS awareness camps in several villages we minister. Partners India is giving educational scholarship to several children in these villages.

Giving much needed healthcare to Children is the primary focus of Partners India compassion projects. In India, over 2.1 million children die annually before reaching their fifth birthday, 50% of them not surviving even 28 days. Globally, the number stands at 9.7 million annually.

The statistics are equally shocking among neonates - children newborn to a maximum age of 28 days old. While around 4 million children die within the first 28 days of life across the planet every year, India records around one million of these cases.

Of the 19 million infants in the developing world who have low birth weight (less than 2,500 grams), 8.3 million are in India. This means that approximately 43% of all the world's infants who are born with a low birth weight are born in India.

Malnutrition continues to affect newborns and young children and has been found to be the underlying cause of up to 50% of under-five deaths.

About 55 million, or one-third of the world's underweight children under age five, live in India with the worst affected states being Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Gujarat, Orissa, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh and Meghalaya.

These are the findings of UNICEF's latest 'The State of the World's Children-2008' report released in January 2008.

The report places India at number one spot in children's deaths across the globe - one child dying every three seconds*.

Partners India also runs Sewing Centers in the villages we minister. These sewing centers are giving hope to several women in the local villages to stand on their own feet and be a provider to the family.

*Times of India Newspaper 23 Jan 2008.