S. a 12 year boy work full time to contribute to family income. Last year he used to go to school along with his other friends from his community. His elder brother works in Dhaka city and earns little and could not help the family. Last year his father passed away after severe cardiac arrest. Mother become helpless and the boy had to leave school. Entire life mother was housewife and never worked to earn.
Now she work as farmer in other farmers land to run the family. S. was working as silversmith and earn to help mother. Every day he work over 9 hour making ornament. S. was never happy leaving school. S. join TCD children group in January 2017. He loves this group because for him this is class. He loves learning. Our facilitator has taken initiative to talk to the mother and assess the situation. TCD-worker L. talk to the mother and made her understand that it is important for S. to go to school. Mother agreed half day school and half day work.
TCD is working with the mother how to help her to increase income and develop her capacity. S. is extremely happy to be back to school.
other happenings in the same village …
Progress Report – February ’17
Changing village in to a Model Village is taking place in V.(village). Now they have 7 women group and over 140 members are regularly meeting. Following activities are happening on a regular basis:
Saving collection
Small loan for small income generating work
Homestead gardening
Cleaning village
Using unused land
Sending children school
Improving health through knowledge sharing
They also have 2 children group. They are learning contextual health issues. They are keeping home and its errands clean. Practicing hygiene lessons. There are also 2 youth group within the same village. Youth are helping community people and assisting poor farmer who needed help in farming. This village looks like one family.
Need your help so that village could be win physically and mentally and emotionally and in all relationships.
Thanks for your continued help in villages similar to this across S. Asia with GHNI … as you have viewed this “limited edit” report – Daniel
Short Term Teams are critical to our work in GHNI. Premised on the reality that a persons’ “presence” is powerful; the larger reality is that those who go are measurably transformed, and will have a better heart and head for those in need, experiencing a reality impossible for those who do not go.
Home – Nepal
Hawaii is a very long way from Nepal. Yet, this Short Term Team was extremely instrumental in moving TCD-Transformational Community Development further along in the villages they served in.
Hawaii Team – Nepal
Speaking “cross-culturally” of STT(s), there really is no such thing as a giver or receiver. Both the Hawaii Team AND the Nepal village nationals are giving and receiving of each other, as they relate and learn from each other. As a USA citizen, I can personally vouch for the breadth and depth of what I have personally “received” in working overseas. Nationals are vast in their willingness to “give”, even in those times I am there to serve them. I cannot tell you the number of times I have been GIVEN TO, as nationals in Romania, Nepal, India, Bangladesh, and other locales have given me their last chicken, simply because I was the honored guest. It’s a radically humbling experience! And yet we do serve, sometimes in ways we least know.
Ed. Children – Hawaii Team
So come join us to “serve” in GHNI. And I promise you, you will never ever be the same.
A huge “Thank You” to the Hawaii Team. And as my once 4-year old child would say … an even “huger” “Thank You” to the Nepalese nationals who allowed this Hawaii Team the experience and memory of a life-time! Serving has been a true pleasure.
Lots of “News” and “Features” have come your way over the past few years.
This EOY ’16, we’d like to bring it home a bit and give you a view not only of our GHNI wrap-up ’16 … but also the Emig family behind the scenes, allowing a lot of this to happen. So here goes our 1st try at this:
Dan & Nora(wife)
End-Of-Year 2016 …
2016 into 2017? Are we “drifting” into another year? Hardly! Each year is unique, better, special … to be savored. How?
You, our dear friend on this endless journey together …
Jonathan(20), Grandma, Bryan(17) & Eliana(15)
It begins and never ends … with the heart! Regardless of exciting things brought our way in adventure and new establishments in TCD, if our heart is not growing and expanding in infinite love, we have little to nothing to talk about. This is crucial! Our hearts are expanding. Our hearts ache for the whole, the true and the good for those we help in Eastern Europe and C./S. Asia. We greatly desire our hearts expanding into your lives also, knowing as we draw close to you, mutual encouragement will expand to our other personal relationships locally and around the world.
Bangladesh: TCD-Transformational Community Development in Bangladesh is allowing wholistic growth among many children, youth, and their parents. N. Bangladesh is especially seeing healthy progress in the villages they labor in. Our TCD team is passionate in their faith in their communities, as they focus on children’s K-8 educational and vocational needs leading to self-sustainable lifestyles!
Kari … and TCD childrenTCD Team Bangladesh
Armenia: Our “House of Esther” refugee center in Spitak, Armenia is taking shape and adding refugees as funding and accommodations allow. My work there this summer helped me understand the unique needs of war-torn lives, as most are from Syria. Open doors are there to see lives transformed in love and provision that leads to self-sustainability. TCD agriculture and a possibility of a fish-farm reproductive system will help to move this center forward into self-sustainability and wholeness.
Soil Samples …Workers & Refugees
Serbia: Snezana and her local community and longing to help impoverished Roma communities has won our hearts. Financially, her TCD budget has struggled in ‘16. Regardless, she is faithful to work with and win the hearts of those she loves and relates to in the gypsy villages of South Serbia. The monthly reports I receive and edit in route to the GHNI office are nothing short of spectacular, as she and her team co-labor in those villages, expanding their ability to become self-sustaining. Đorgovska Mahala village in one year, is not the same!
Children-Labane, SerbiaYouth in Serbia
Nepal: Earthquake of ’15 in Nepal was devastating on a multitude of levels. Our GHNI National Director, Kiran and his team have in ’16 been able to focus in villages most willing to embrace TCD as their means of recovery, becoming self-sustainable. Having started several organizations and orphanages, and worked for “non-self-sustaining” NGO(s), Kiran is skilled, experienced, and impassioned to carry through in TCD principles he knows will bring the very best to these chosen villages. ’17 brings a team from the USA to help in training key nationals who will in turn be equipped to carry through TCD mentoring to yet other nationals.
TCD-Nepal
As you know, GHNI works in many regions of the Middle East, Africa, Asia and now Eastern Europe. My work-focus in S. Asia and now in E. Europe and C. Asia is stretching and getting much more involved. We are grateful for your supporting us as a GHNI team and as the Emig family!
There are so very many opportunities. Funding is always a limiting factor in opportunity choices. We need funding both on a GHNI projects level, as well as our personal sustenance level, that we can continue furthering TCD. As your heart leads, please consider supporting our projects and family. I could easily focus another $60K annually on new and existing villages in the geographic(s) I alone work in(“projects”). Our “personal” family budget remains short and in need. $1,500 in monthly increases is our current need. Will you please consider these and consider monthly gifts of $50-$250-other? Always, if you have questions or concerns, I am happy to communicate with you. Gifts are sent to: WEB/Internet giving at: http://www.ghni.org/us/about/staff/daniel-emig or mail-in to:
Global Hope Network International 934 N. Magnolia Ave. Suite 310 Orlando, FL 32803-3840 Noting: “Preferred for Emig family” Thanks!
Nora & Eliana baby sitting
Nora, Jonathan, Bryan and Eliana are doing so very well! Nora’s new position at Dillard’s has provided income, as well as an excellent team she works with. Stamina and discernment are her needs, that she would be able to handle home and work responsibilities as I travel frequently. I am honored to have her as my life-mate and mother to our children!
CSU – Jonathan
Jonathan is a sophomore at CSU, and is progressing well in engineering(electronics/software focus)! His accomplishments and energies as he excels in academics and his entrepreneurial dreams, now having his own LLC in web development, are fun to watch. We are honored to have him as our son!
Snowboarding – Bryan
Bryan is a junior in high school and working hard to finish early so he can focus well on a truly professional aim at snowboarding. His soccer season was again excellent, as he personally scored numerous goals and his team went again to playoffs. He excels in many areas of life. We are honored to have him as our son!
English Jumping – Eliana
Eliana is in her 1st year of high school and “for her” enjoying it! We’ll not over-extrapolate here, just in saying she is entering new and exciting territories of “enjoyment” of school. 🙂 She is ever-increasing her love of horses and recently hit the 2’3” mark on her English-style jumping. We are honored to have her as our daughter!
Thank you for your love for us, and for undergirding all we are and do! It has with you, been a truly remarkable and great year in 2016!
Immeasurable grace and love will assuredly abound in 2017! Joyful Christmas and a truly prosperous New Year in 2017 to you!
I am Pushparani, and 43 years old. I started my business two years ago and was unable to make a good profit as my business was small and I did not have the money to increase the output. However when I received my first micro loan from GHNI in the year 2014 the production increased which helped me make profit of Rs.6000. I had to improve my profit further as I needed to buy equipment to increase the production. In 2015, I received my second load and achieved my target RS.9000 (purchasing items need for the production.
We were taught at a TCD program how to improve our sales. We are now planning to make the packet more attractive to improve sales. We were taught that higher turnover will improve the business and will be a challenge to similar products in the market. This was another reason for fast sale
I receive the third loan in 2016. With TCD strengthening us we have boldly taken a step to build a market at the front of my house temporarily we have completed the market as we ran short of funds.
As this is the season people come from all over Sri Lanka to Sri Pada Mountain, so business is very good. I anticipated a target is Rs.12000 per month, however with the additional money coming in from visitors we will close at Rs.20000 this month. We also want to start a new business providing dinner items in the future.
I thank GHNI for being with us thought these years helping us build a steady income which can be used for home and children’s needs. Our prayer is that GHNI will stay with m us for many more years. Pushparani
Thank you for being a such an important part of Pushparani’s life, helping her become self-sustainable via TCD! Daniel
Daniel & Nora Emig's Journeys 