How You Can Help
The Home of Hope Orphanages – China operate without any government financial assistance whatsoever; nor has the organization ever received any funding from the general Chinese society. Our sole means of operational support is individual donations from Western countries. We appreciate those who are willing to sacrifice each month to keep the “Hope Burning” for these lovely children!
We try not to saturate our website with needs and requests for financial help but over time we have learned that many of our viewers and supporters like to afford financial help on occasion so we feel it necessary to present our needs.
Our Current Needs
Currently with the cold winter weather we use small space heaters to heat our children’s bedrooms. When we build our new addition (see details below) we will install a boiler system. The smaller heaters cost a lot to run, but is the only way we can give heat to our children. Our typical electricity bill is around $285.00 per month. Last month our bill was over $650, and it was only the beginning of winter:) We estimate paying an additional $1500 at least for our electricity bill for this winter; any help with this bill would be a tremendous bless.
We bought our van in October of 2008 and have been blessed with such a nice van. Currently our van has 65,000 kilometers (about 40,000 miles). Pingyu is a poor rural area and because of such, the roads are extremely bad. We started noticing our tires had a lot of stress cracks and our van was not driving just right. When we brought our van to the mechanic he discovered one of our tires had a bulge, the other tire had a leak on the side wall and the front two tires did not look like they were in very good condition either. We typically try to raise money first before buying anything, but these tires needed to be replaced immediately. Unfortunately, since Pingyu is so far from any big city, some things are quiet costly; like spending $100 per tire. If you would like to donate the cost of one tire or more, it would be greatly appreciated.
We are presently working on raising funds ($100,000) to build an extension to our existing facility. This extension will give us 4 more bedrooms and a bigger area to be used as a classroom and dining hall. We are using 3 of the 4 bedrooms in our current building and without expanding we are limited in helping more children.
We want to thank you for taking the time to read about our needs and we ask that you agree with us in prayer that God will provide all of our needs.
Donations
Click the link if you are interested in making a Donation or Sponsoring a Child to help support the children of PingYu Home of Hope.