WorldShare
Transforming Lives Through Education and Health
Fast Facts
Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Indonesia, Cambodia
Gerald Thomas, Jeff Brown
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022-23
Job Skills, Health
How WorldShare Is Making a Difference
Australia-based WorldShare works to break the poverty cycle through local partnerships and development in vulnerable communities.
Work of WorldShare
- Supports improved school attendance and graduation rates through Sunshine Cambodia; and holistically supports families in need through business training, home essentials, and emergency subsidies.
- Provides health, education, and feeding services for outcast deaf persons through Ephphatha’s Center for the Deaf, in Democratic Republic of Congo; provides wholistic care through Heal Africa.
- Funds school tuition and supports literacy, math and feeding programs through the Bangalore City Mission in India.
- Addresses the challenges of hunger through support of home gardens and health and hygiene training with a ministry partner in Indonesia.
- Provides food, shelter, and vocational training for outcast and abused young women in partnership with Wakisa in Uganda; supports school fees, supplies, and agricultural progams through Christian Fellowship Ministries.
Initiatives Supported by Project Redwood
2019: $25,000 to help fund a training center to provide vocational skills to teen-aged mothers and other vulnerable young women in Uganda.
2020: $30,000 to provide quality seeds, instruction, and other support to agricultural programs in Uganda.
2021: $30,000 to expand a pilot agricultural program in Uganda that provides seeds, hands-on learning and land-rent subsidies.
2022-23: $30,000 to teach proven practices to subsistence farming families, and to consolidate agricultural, financial, agroforestry, and health trainings into a community program to increase crop yields and family savings. An unrestricted grant of $2,883 was also awarded.