February 2014

A young woman with a child discovers her husband has left her. She doesn’t have money, food for her baby or a job. She finds a place to stay with friends who don’t have much and are stretched thin supporting her and her young child. Desperate for help, the young mother goes to an organization she has heard can help her. She goes to Casa de los Pobres, a Serving Hands International partner in Tijuana, Mexico. She is able to receive basic provisions of food for herself and her child. Now, having gained a sense of dignity, she volunteers to package and sort goods for other families in need. Soon, her volunteering will provide her skills that are valuable for a job…and in the meantime she is able to give back to the organization that rescued her and her child. Casa de los Pobres is one of Serving Hands International’s 43 partners’ organizations in Mexico that receives a bi-monthly essential food donation. The essential food is rice, beans, flour, sugar, oil, fresh fruit and vegetables. These groceries are a challenge to acquire for many women and hard pressed families due to strained or depleted finances. Serving Hands International was able to provide these essentials to over 45,000 people in need during 2013. The food donations provided are made possible by our sponsor A-1 Self Storage and donors like you!

A year ago our team could not have imagined the impact of each life ministered to through Serving Hands International and its partner organizations.Yet Serving HandsInternational carried out their mission and in great delight surpassed the impact that was made in 2012. This feat was made possible through the tireless efforts of Serving Hands’ partner organizations, their dynamic programs and their faithful administers and volunteers. In partnership with each of them 225,000 people were recipients of positive programs within the countries of Mexico, India, Ghana, Tanzania, Peru, Philippines, and South Africa. Serving Hands International’s mission is to aid the poorest people in the world while striving to encourage in them self-sufficiency, dignity and hope by providing educational and vocational opportunities, food, clothing, shelter, medical assistance and spiritual guidance. We thank our partners, volunteers, premier sponsor A-1 Self Storage and YOU our generous donors who have encouraged Serving Hands to continue in our mission and in so doing making lasting impacts in the lives of individuals worldwide.