Let’s follow the journey of a donation from the US to Africa.
Let’s say, as an avid reader of the Daily Jot, you feel blessed by what the Daily Jot publishes and and are touched by the Daily Jot’s ministry in Ghana, West Africa. You decide to donate towards the ministry’s objectives; namely, feeding needy children, clothing the poor, offering clean water to the thirsty, sharing the good news in neglected rural areas, and bringing hope to those experiencing Islamic persecution in isolated communities.
Without giving any designation to the amount, you make the donation to the Daily Jot. The Jot in turn sends the donation by bank transfer and informs the African representative.Once the amount leaves the US and arrives in Ghana, so to speak, an interesting tale of the donation begins.
Upon notification of the transfer, a ministry representative in Ghana goes to the nearest bank, about five miles away, to join a long queue for, on the average, 45minutes to one hour to cash the amount. The amount is made available to a local committee comprising representatives of our ministry and our ministry partners and closely monitored.
As a rule, Redeem West Africa allows its local volunteers and partners in a specific community where a program takes place, to expend the money on the purchase of items for their program within their community. This is to help grow the local economy and bless rural folks.
So items are bought and local vendors are grateful to have made good sales that day. Where necessary, some items are bought from the big city and brought to the villages. Volunteers from our ministry and the cooperating partners come together to visit homes to send invites, tour the streets to locate street children, start cooking and put other things in place.
Meanwhile, those reached out to, the children from various households, the streets and communities, including some parents, are looking forward to a good free meal, clean water, some soda, cookies, goodies and used clothing.
On the day of the program, all are excited and show up for an event that has been the talk of town and has never taken place perhaps in their community before. This draws several other uninvited folks, who come gate crashing.
Then the fun of a lifetime begins. Joy untold is unleashed. With music in the air, abundance of food, drinks and gifts, hugging, smiles and laughter, the forces of love begin to perform wondrous things on poor rural folks. Lives are touched, changed and turned around all because of your donation.
Above is only a peep into what happens when you make a donation. It does not even tell half the story of your donations; including miracles, wonderful testimonies and what have you.
We wish you were here to experience things for yourselves. You would experience first hand the case of the helper being more blessed than the helped. It is always so with donations.
