Dear Frens,
Early Christmas greetings to everyone!
In preparation to usher in this year's Christmas, we have chosen to support provision of a year's supply of food for the 177 boys in the Nazareth Home@Anisakan, Myanmar run by Salesian priests.
The Salesian Fathers have come to us for help as they are running out of funds by December 2019 this year, to feed the 177 boys that they are taking care of physically, spiritually and mentally with the great love that Jesus has impressed upon them.
The boys are staying at the Nazareth Home are all very poor and many are youths from troubled areas in Myanmar.
I believe, we cannot do better with the money that God has given us then to help these boys grow up into good men. Salesian priests at the Nazareth Home are doing their best to feed, shelter and educate these boys who have no good or proper homes.
Salesian Fathers, not only provide and support the boys in education, they also teach these young boys to be morally good & upright men with strong Christians values. Several of the students have also since become Salesian priests and is serving to build God's kingdom here on earth.
Salesian Fathers, not only provide and support the boys in education, they also teach these young boys to be morally good & upright men with strong Christians values. Several of the students have also since become Salesian priests and is serving to build God's kingdom here on earth.
As Christmas approaches, we Singaporeans will undoubtedly have more to eat, to drink and to celebrate.
If anyone is able to join me to bless these growing boys with food and if possible to eat more then just mainly plain rice and beans, one egg a week, it would be great.
I, for one am not able to eat plain rice and beans every day and almost every meal and look as happy the kids look. No wonder Luke says "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
All I can hope for us all is when we share a bit of what we have we will look as joyful as them everyday of our lives :)
Our Target is for the children to have rice, veggies, beans as per usual and we would like to provide an egg a day instead once a week and some meat or fish once or twice a week. Proteins for growing children is important right?
Beans are undoubtedly a good source of protein but if we can all chip in, we might be able to help them to eat a bit above the subsistence level of food that they are living on now.
To do this it would cost usd$0.56 cents ( approx sgd $0.77 )for 3 meals per child, up from the current poor condition of usd $0.40 cents(approx sgd $0.55 ) per child per day for 3 meals.
Less that $1 a day is an unbelievably low amount for 3 meals but it amounts to an unbelievably large amount if you multiply it for the 10 months of food needed to help the Nazareth Home scrape through their food needs from December 2019 to end of the next school year in Mar 2021.
The total amount needed to fund 10 months of food is USD$29,727 or SGD$40,788
Can we together do this? Share what we have to help children we do not know and may never meet?
I really hope so! Salesian Fathers trusts in God's providence and I put my trust in the kindness that God has put into our hearts.
So shall we all help provide and share our plate of food this Christmas with these children who have nothing?
Pls contact me if you wish to join me and contribute to this project and make it happen.
May everyone have a wonderful Christmas and a faith filled year again!
God Bless,
Mill
* 'Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty' - St Augustine
All I can hope for us all is when we share a bit of what we have we will look as joyful as them everyday of our lives :)
Our Target is for the children to have rice, veggies, beans as per usual and we would like to provide an egg a day instead once a week and some meat or fish once or twice a week. Proteins for growing children is important right?
Beans are undoubtedly a good source of protein but if we can all chip in, we might be able to help them to eat a bit above the subsistence level of food that they are living on now.
To do this it would cost usd$0.56 cents ( approx sgd $0.77 )for 3 meals per child, up from the current poor condition of usd $0.40 cents(approx sgd $0.55 ) per child per day for 3 meals.
Less that $1 a day is an unbelievably low amount for 3 meals but it amounts to an unbelievably large amount if you multiply it for the 10 months of food needed to help the Nazareth Home scrape through their food needs from December 2019 to end of the next school year in Mar 2021.
The total amount needed to fund 10 months of food is USD$29,727 or SGD$40,788
Can we together do this? Share what we have to help children we do not know and may never meet?
I really hope so! Salesian Fathers trusts in God's providence and I put my trust in the kindness that God has put into our hearts.
So shall we all help provide and share our plate of food this Christmas with these children who have nothing?
Pls contact me if you wish to join me and contribute to this project and make it happen.
May everyone have a wonderful Christmas and a faith filled year again!
God Bless,
Mill
* 'Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty' - St Augustine
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