Description:
Hands in Service Ministries works with Manos Hermanas, A.C., based in Guadalajara, Mexico in order to match needs and resources to alleviate hunger through mutual projects:
- Partner with Texas Baptist Hunger Offering to provide intensive ecological micro gardening and animal husbandry training so that people can produce their own food in urban, suburban, and rural poverty belts
- Partner with Leaf Nutrient, Inc., in a mutual project to integrate alfalfa cellular concentrate production with gardening and husbandry training for an ecological, self-sustaining community farm.
- Partner with Limbs International to rehabilitate leg amputees with a novel prosthesis so that they can return to work and support their families.
- Partner with Amigos Internacionales, Inc. and Breedlove Dehydrated Foods to receive concentrated food supplements for distribution through a broad network of Mexican NGOs and community support committees that focus on hunger related needs: orphanages, shelters, homes for the elderly, after school and other feeding programs and stations, rehab centers, as well as directly to families living in urban and rural poverty belts.
- Partner with different organizations to help families living in poverty belts to construct their own ecological outhouses (no smell, no flies) to break the cycle of fecal – oral contamination that propagates diseases that are important factors for chronic malnutrition.
- Help families to eat better and more cheaply by recognizing their invisible spending and developing their own family budget through a home economics course, “¿Te Sobra Dinero?” (Do You Have Too Much Money?)
- Helping families construct ecological outhouses, (no smell, no flies) in poverty belts to break the cycle of fecal - oral contamination for diseases that are an important factor for chronic malnutrition.
- Teach simple ways to prevent and to remedy many of the common diseases that cause malnutrition with their reproducible materials available in English, Spanish, and Kiswahili.
Hands in Service Ministries is a broad based, 501 (c)(3) human needs organization that works to alleviate: hunger, thirst, illness, poverty, lack of purpose, and to improve quality of life for those in need. All of their services are provided without any limitation or distinction based race, creed, gender, or political affiliation.
How to Help:
Iowans are encouraged to watch an interview that explains their background and current project, or contact Dr. Baggett directly for more information about the projects or programs of Hands in Service Ministries. These programs can be supported through providing input and advice, volunteer time, and financial support. Iowans can also contact Dr. Baggett to request free, reproducible materials in English, Spanish, and Kiswahili that might be useful to groups who are working with hunger related problems or in poverty belts.
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