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Nehemiah Schools in Pakistan
An alarming situation - Official statistics released by the Federal Education Ministry of Pakistan give a desperate picture of education for all, especially for girls. The overall literacy rate is 40 per cent, while only 22 per cent of girls are literate. The...
V.I.P. Project in Siberia
Old women, young mothers with babies, men and women who were drug addicts, and a couple of older, handicapped men – in total over 40 people live crammed together in a former kindergarten in a Siberian rural village near Prokopyevsk. The building is dilapidated and is...
Education as a Human Right
Access to a good education is nothing to take for granted in Pakistan. Many children, particularly from the Christian minority (about 1.6% out of a population of 180 million) hardly dare to dream of it. The Pakistani Nehemiah Team has opened two schools in order to...
Computer Centre for Children and Young People
Our Pakistani partners have set up a computer school in Karachi for children and youths who come from economically deprived circumstances. Particularly children who come from the Christian ghettos often find it hard to get a good education. The computer centre...
Transcarpathia without Orphans
Orphans here are generally released from the state-run orphanages at age 16. For several years now, the Ukrainian Nehemiah Team has been caring for such young people and has been able to prevent many from slipping into prostitution or criminality. It is as important...
Kids Camps – Sport, Games, Fun and Input
During the Ukrainian summer holidays, the Nehemiah Training Centre offers many different activities for children and young people. There is an especially huge demand for the Kids Camps. They offer children and teenagers from the Uzhgorod region an opportunity to...
Montessori Kindergartens
Under the expert training and guidance of Carri MacFarlane, a kindergarten has been established in the Nehemiah Training Centre, operating based on the methods of Maria Montessori. A school is in the planning stages as well. There is a great deal of interest in this...
Helping Refugees in the Ukraine
Many thousands of people have had to flee the conflict in east Ukraine – the great majority of them to west Ukraine. The Ukrainian Nehemiah Team were among the first organisations around Uzhgorod to accept refugees. In spring 2014 they opened the doors of the Nehemiah...
Help for the Gypsies
In and around Uzhgorod are many Romani (“gypsy”) settlements. The Romani often live an isolated, underprivileged existence, as they do in other parts of south-east Europe, treated by many as outsiders to be avoided. The Ukrainian Nehemiah Team is concerned about the...
Girls Care Project in Thailand
After a doctor performed an emergency operation to save the life of a 13-year-old girl who had been massively abused in a brothel, Pastor Sayan Kusavadee and his wife Siriporn took her into their home. This was the start of a project that has given hundreds of girls...
Forced Prostitution in Thailand
Year after year innumerable young girls from North Thailand and the surrounding countries are sold into prostitution. Bangkok, Pattaya and other centres of sex tourism, brothels and massage parlours in Japan, Germany and elsewhere are in constant need of “fresh goods”...
Dalits – The Untouchables of Indian Society
The Dalits (untouchables) are on the lowest rung of the Indian caste system. They are descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of India. The name Dalit comes from a Sanskrit word “dal”, meaning ‘broken, torn, downtrodden, outcast, trampled, destroyed and openly...