Orphans & Widows PAK | home-based Care initiative | Pakistan

What: This effort is to support widow-led households that empowers families to stay together rather than sending the children to extended family members or local orphanages.

Where: This work takes place in three cities of Punjab, Pakistan; Jaranwala, Raiwind, and Narowal.

When: This Mission Project began in 2020 with one household.

How: We are honored to partner with Pastors Saleem & Burnabas of BMS Bethel Church of Pakistan who provisions care locally.

We look forward to building upon this relationship to serve additional households in the future.

You may send support for this Mission Project to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Circle, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically at Home-Based Care Initiative or give on this website at the upper righthand corner under ‘Donate’ and select Home-Based Care under the Fund designation.

Background

We were connected with Pastor Saleem in 2011 for the first time when we worked with him to serve children at an orphanage located in Raiwind, Pakistan.

BMS Bethel Church was established in the year of 2005. They started in the town Raiwind of Lahore district with a single church. From their beginning, it has been their burden to work with the orphans and widows in their community. They currently work in the areas of church planting, Bible training, orphan and widow care, outreach, and disaster relief.

Orphans & Widows PAK

While this Mission Project began with a single household in 2020, we have served as many as seventeen households with fifty-eight children. Resource constraints required us to reduce this effort to the eleven households with the forty children that we currently serve today last year.

This activity includes celebrating Christmas and Easter with these families. In addition, most all of these families attend a local area church that has been planted by BMS Bethel Church of Pakistan.

As you might imagine, these families are left behind in their society, however, this work provides an opportunity for these family units to stay together.

Future plans may include providing additional opportunities for these families to become self-sustainable that will provide even more hope for the future.

Geography

Pakistan is a country that is just more than five times the size of our state of Georgia, with a population of 247.7 million people making it the 5th most populous nation in the world.

96.5% of the population consider themselves Muslim, with the balance of 3.5% of the people who are Christian or Hindu.

This Mission Project takes place in Punjab Province with is located in central-eastern region of the country. Punjab is the second-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the largest province by population. Punjab shares their border to the east with the Indian states of Rajasthan and Punjab and Indian-administered Kashmir to the northeast.

Punjab is also the world's fifth-most populous subnational entity, and the most populous outside of China and India, and is also one of the most urbanized regions of South Asia, with approximately 40 percent of its population being concentrated in urban areas.

Project Costs & Approach

The investment in this Mission Project is to provide care for these families in their distress. Care can include food, clothing, assistance with school, and other associated costs to provide for the family unit.

BMS provides provision of care and oversight to ensure proper outcomes for the children, and Pastoral care is provided to these families as our mission partners demonstrate the Gospel through the kind support of our funding partners.

Please prayerfully consider how you might support this Mission Project.

You may send support for this Mission Project to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Circle, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically at Home-Based Care Initiative or give on this website at the upper righthand corner under ‘Donate’ and select Home-Based Care under the Fund designation.