Wells Project
Wells Project is one of our ministries which help the churches to have clean water to use in their community. Through our prayer this project is appears in our ministries, so we built many wells in each Province where the churches are located. This project is going to help local Pastor and churches across Cambodia.
Relief and Development
In order to insure the longevity of the church , it is necessary for the local Cambodian Christians to have a way to adequately support themselves. Economic development is a must. Cambodia Outreach (New Life Fellowship of Churches in Cambodia and New Life Foundation Cambodia) have been involved in the following relief and development activities:
Houses for the Poor
In the past years we've been had the privilege to partner with Samaritan's Purse Canada and build more than 60 houses for the poor. The original house is usually a thatch hut or a wooden building that is falling apart. With generous donations from donors we've been able to build, small, but suitale an permanant homes for those who are in desperate need of them. We can build these homes for $1,500. If you would like, we would love to build a home and give the owner a photo of you, the person/family or church that donated it. This is especially helpful during the rainy season.
Rice Banks
Rice banks are ways for the church to buy havested rice and then re-sell it at a time when the subsistence-level farmers lack. During harvest season (usually around December of each year) through generous donations from people like you, the village church is able to buy rice that the farmers are selling at a reasonable and fair price. It is bought locally and the local family farmers are blessed. About November of December of each year families who have stored rice from the previous harvest begin to run out. Many of them literally have nothing left to eat. They must borrow money or rice from "loan sharks" in the village at high prices, which they must pay back at harvest season, thus diminishing the amount of rice they have to eat even more. However, if the church has prepared a rice bank the villager (believer and unbeliever) can come and "borrow" rice to hold them over until harvest and the church doesn't charge them the interest like the loan shark does. We've done this for many years and it's a wonderful system the Cambodians love to use. Contact Pastor Vanna at fwlc.vanna@gmail.com for more information.
Water Wells
Cambodia is comprised of subsistance-level rice farmers. As the population has grown the amount of mouths to feed of the land grows, too, but the size of the land stays the same. These family rice farmers depend solely on the rain. If there is rain, there is rice; if there is no rain, there is no rice. No rice means no food. The end of December is usually the harvest time. While the Christian world is celebrating the birth of our Lord, many of these farmers have consumed all the rice they stored from last year and are now going without. It's common for poor villagers to come to our pastors and ask for a handful or cup of rice so they will have something to eat for their evening meal. We have a vision of digging water wells in the villages where we have churches that can be used for irrigation and drinking. It's difficult to find pure water through digging wells in Cambodia so we will want to provide a filtration system for each house, as well. In the past we have used a simple sand filter 5 gallon bucket with a spigot. Pour in the bad water, out comes the good water! It's wonderful. The costs for digging wells varies from place to place in Cambodia, depending upon how far you must dig and how far you must haul the well-digging equipment. However, the approximate cost is $2,000 per well. Costs for a sand filter for a family is $15 and cost for a water pump is $350.
