This page lists some of our current and planned future projects in Myanmar. With God's strength and guidance, coupled with your prayers and financial support, we can make these projects a reality!
Stay tuned for more information on how you can get involved in helping God's people in Myanmar!
The healthcare situation for most people in Northwest Myanmar is beyond desperate. Myanmar as a country has one of the world's worst healthcare records, and the the rural areas suffer the most. The people live with constant health problems that plague their daily lives, and a large majority are sick all the time. Because of their extreme poverty, the people only seek out medical care when it is absolutely the last resort. 
Knowledge of even the most basic health prevention steps is unknown to the majority of the villagers. When government health workers finally make it around to the villages, and dispense medicines, the people are often not properly instructed in how to take the medicines, or they fail to understand the instructions. As a result, many people get sick and some even die from taking wrong dosages, taking medicines at the wrong times, etc.
Medical transportation is virtually unavailable in the rural areas. When someone gets sick to the point that a doctor must be seen, the person has to either walk, or be carried on a bicycle, to the nearest clinic - which is miles away. We know of many instances where children died on the way to the hospital while being carried on a relative's back. When that happens, the only thing to do is turn around and go back home to bury the child.
We could share many heartbreaking stories related to the poor healthcare situation, but you get the point. We want to do what we can to improve the situation, even if it is only a little at a time. We want to build an in-patient clinic in a large village in Northwest Myanmar, in an area that is not being served by any clinic or hospital. We have located a suitable plot of land that is for sale, and have received promises of help from medical professionals to help staff the clinic once it is operational.
To make this happen, we need your help. The cost for the land is about $4,000.00 US, and the estimated construction costs are around $15,000.00 US. We have received promises of help to equip the clinic from other medical aid organizations, and will nail down those estimates once the land is secured and the building is progressing.
We will not go into debt to purchase the land or to borrow the construction funds, so the building cannot go forward until the full amount of $20,000.00 has been raised.
Will you please help us with this extremely important project? Many men, women and children are needlessly suffering and dying every day in Northwest Myanmar from easily preventable diseases. You can help change that by sending a donation today of any amount. Please click on the picture to your right - the one that says "Click Here to Help." You will be taken to an online donation page where you can donate using a checking account or a credit card. In the note section let us know that your donation is for the Hope Clinic.
If you would rather send a check, please address it to:
Myanmar Hope Christian Mission, Inc.
308 South Oxford Road
Springfield, IL 62704-1258
All donations are 100% tax deductible in the USA.
THANK YOU!
The purpose of the Bicycles for Pastors Project is to provide shortwave a means of transporation for tribal pastors and church leaders. In the remote villages, it is very common for one pastor or elder to shepherd several churches, which are sometimes several miles apart. The pastors are very poor, and cannot afford to purchase their own bicycles to ride between villages.
In addition to providing a faster means of traveling from village to village and home to home, the bicycles can be used to take a sick church member to a clinic, to transport goods from place to place, and so on. A good, solid bicycle is a tremendous blessing to a tribal pastor!
if you would like to provide a good, used, bicycle to a village pastor or church leader, please contact us, and indicate your interest in the Bicycles for Pastors Project.
The cost for one durable, high-quality used bicycle: $80.00
The purpose of the Shortwave Radios Project is to provide shortwave radios to tribal pastors and church elders. With these radios, they, along with their congregations, can tune into Gospel broadcasting services and listen to Bible teaching in their own languages. These radios are a valuable tool for increasing the biblical knowledge and spirtual maturity of Christians in remote areas in a very cost-effective way.
if you would like to provide one or more radios to a village church, please contact us, and indicate your interest in the Shortwave Radio Project.
The cost for one durable, high-quality radio: $35.00
Status: Ongoing
The purpose of the Family Support Program is to relieve the suffering of our Christian family in Myanmar that is caused by extreme poverty, racism, injustice and educational inequality.
The average family in Myanmar lives on about $.63 (sixty-three cents) US per day, or $230.00 US per year.1 According to internal Myanmar sources, the price of a standard, 112 pound bag of rice (about enough to feed a family of four for one month) costs about $30.00 US. In American terms, this would be equivalent to us spending our entire paychecks for almost two months of work for one month's supply of basic food.
According to the International Monetary Fund, the Myanmar economy in 2006 ranked 174th out of 180 countries in terms of Gross domestic product per capita, in current prices.2 This places Myanmar near the very bottom of the list of countries, between Eritrea (in northern East Africa) and Guinea-Bissau, (in western Africa, one of the smallest countries on the continent). Myanmar is now the seventh poorest nation in the world.
Many families try to supplement their meager incomes with small farm plots, cutting and selling firewood, and selling vegetables in local village markets. Life is very difficult and discouraging for these Christians. Electricity for most is either non-existent, or sporadic and undependable. Luxuries that we in American take for granted, such as refrigeration, indoor plumbing and clean, running water are simply out of the reach of Christians in Myanmar.
Education is another area where Christians in Myanmar suffer greatly. Many poor families simply cannot afford to send their children to school, and those children that are able to attend, often do so on empty stomachs. The education that is available is sub-standard to say the least.
Myanmar Hope Christian Mission wants to help change the lives of our Christian brothers and sisters in Myanmar, by providing assistance in such areas as nutritional food, adequate clothing and shelter, health care and education.
If you would like to help us help Christian families in Myanmar, contact us, and indicate that you are interested in the Family Support Program. We promise to get back with you soon!
Monthly Committment: $30.00 per Family
Footnotes
1. International Monetary Fund, World Economic and Financial Surveys - World Economic Outlook Database, April 2007 Edition, http://imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2007/01/data/index.aspx (July 2007).
2. Ibid.