In a remote jungle of northern Thailand, more than 1,000 men and women have made the desperate, brave decision to seek help for their life-shattering drug addiction. Though there is no more room in the rehabilitation camp, new people keep coming. The pastor with whom we partner, himself a former addict, does not have the heart to send them away.
In this five-year program, Shan men and women are freed from drug addiction and will be trained in agricultural practice and basic life skills so the camp can be self-sustaining. Ultimately, our prayer is that these folk Buddhists will be transformed by the power of the gospel so that they will love the Lord Jesus Christ with all their hearts. Our vision is to see them take the gospel back to their villages all across the Shan homelands.
Here are some of the current needs in and around the Shan Mountain Village. Please join us and donate today!
Just up the hill from the drug rehab camp lies a camp for Internally Displaced People. The 3,000 people who live here have been forced to flee their home villages by military aggressors. Hemmed in on a high ridge by ethnic armies, these men, women and children have nowhere to go. And now with the additional threat of COVID-19, they are not allowed to work on nearby tea plantations. They collect whatever roots they can find in the jungle to eat, but they often go without food.
SEND International is partnering with a local Christian non-governmental organization that prepares nutritious food at a nearby factory in North Thailand. The mix includes corn flour, soy milk, and essential minerals and vitamins. It is the same recipe that fed hungry Europeans after the devastation of World War II.
Thanks to a matching program, a $1 donation can purchase a kilogram of this mix—enough for 20 healthy meals! Our goal is to provide 4,000 kilos per month for the rest of 2021. This will allow the starving people in each camp to eat one nutritious meal, 5 days a week.
Your donations also can help provide fertilizer, seeds and seedlings so the camp residents can grow their own vegetables along the hills around the village.
A small clinic was built for the IDP camp, and is the only accessible place available for medical help. But the 20-bed facility has an old solar system that cannot even provide enough electricity to run a mini-fridge to store medicine. We want to upgrade their solar panels and batteries to save people’s lives on this remote hillside.
Our top priority: Keep the remote mountain clinic open with solar power!
Help us bring electric power for the fridge, light bulbs and office equipment at this mountain hospital. The entire solar project will cost just $2,500.
The mountain clinic doesn’t have enough electricity to power a small refrigerator to store medicine.
Thank you for giving generously to change lives through the Shan Mountain Village Project!
Project 21170-AREAPROJ / Shan Mountain Village Project
