Abandoned But Precious Ministries was founded in 2005 after a mission trip to Southern India. After seeing the desperate plight of children in India, we felt called to extend the love of Christ to the children on India.
We currently partner with Berachah Eklesiastical Mission and their orphanage. This facility provides 26 children with a loving, nurturing, safe, clean christian environment to grow up in. The majority of the children are from homes which cannot provide for them for various reasons. Many are single parents who have several children and can not feed and educate them all, others are from families in which one parent is disabled and unable to work to provide the needed money for food and education. Some of the children are orphaned or abandoned. Of the 26 children, currently 26 of them have sponsorship.
Sponsorship of $ 20.00 a month provides one child with food, clothing, shelter and an education. Without the opportunity for these children to reside in these facilities, most of them would be forced into child labor or possible prostitution and would have no opportunity for an education.
Poverty is an overwhelming social issue in India, consider the following statistics:
Only 10% of children in India have normal nutrition
11,000 children in India die from preventable diseases EACH DAY
13 MILLIION children in India are homeless
48.8 MILLION children are illiterate
10 MILLION children are forced into child labor each year
400,000 girls below the age of 14 will be involved in prostitution this year
FOX NEWS - JULY 23, 2007
“dozens of plastic bags stuffed with body parts believed to be from aborted female fetuses or newborn girls killed because their families wanted boys have been found in an abandoned well in eastern India”
“Last year, an international team of researchers estimated that up to 10 million female fetuses had been aborted in the past decade in India.
Children in India - especially girls- are considered a burden to many families, not a blessing. Many female babies are killed shortly after birth, so they do not become a burden to the families. Many families will tell the oldest female child to leave the family if a new child is born and they are unable to provide for them all. These children are often forced into child labor, kidnapped by gangs who use them to beg or sell them for prostitution or they are left on the street to fend for themselves.
