Humanitarian Aid

        SANMA understands the importance of meeting a hurting individual at his/her immediate need. Often by addressing the immediate need, you can help the individual identify their eternal need. Through projects such as providing water wells for villages , supplying rice bags for the needy families, providing school supplies for children, or by providing advice on healthy lifestyle and hygiene methods, native missionaries shine the light and love of Christ to the people of south Asia.
   Thousands of villages across south Asia rely on ponds and small, hand dug water wells, where water is contaminated and polluted by many harmful substances. Most of these villagers cannot afford to have a drilling machine dig a well for them. Tens of thousands of people walk more than a mile to fetch water for their daily needs. The organization provides deep-water wells for villages.  
    God has allowed SANMA to reflect His compassion and love for the less fortunate in the society through this program. Many a times when people were at the most desperate time, when mothers were not able to see the faces of their crying children, when husbands were not able to face their loving wives who were waiting for them to make supper, we have had the privilege of blessing them with a bag of rice. It was not much, but at that time, it was really much! Poverty is humiliating and the pain of starvation is excruciating. God is allowing SANMA to reflect His caring for the poor and His love for the afflicted through this program. SANMA missionaries visit people in slums and disaster sites and distribute rice bags and cotton blankets.
    Providing a four dollar worth school bag may not sound any significant. But as far as a child from a slum or poor village is concerned, it is a great blessing. India has the largest number of illiterates in the world. Today 402 million people in India may not recognize their own name in a written form. The effects of illiteracy are more than just hurting.
“900,000 people become victims of modern day slavery each year and are sold as commodities” “Approximately 20,000 people are sold to the United States each year.” Forbes Magazine article
    A recent television show describes human trafficking as a trade that earns nearly eight Billion dollars to the perpetrators. Many of the girls who are sold into child prostitution are under the age of ten!
    According the UNICEF report, 250,000 children in India are forced into child labor. “Little children are forced to work up to 18 hours a day with little or no pay and very minimum food. Long hours they are crouched on their toes, causing growth defect during the formation years.”
    Studies reveal that the main underlying reason of these social stigmas is ILLITERACY. SANMA’s Read India program addresses this huge problem. Many moms and dads put their children through school, so that their children don’t have to ride the rough road they have been through. Thousands of south Asian children cannot afford a school bag. Providing them a school bag will not only lighten the burden of their parents, but also will enable the eager student to keep their books dry in the monsoon season.