INTRO
Plan
PROJECTS
Jiggers are a parasitic flea that burrows under the skin and builds a nest there, most commonly attacking peoples hands and feet. They pose a tremendous threat to impoverished people in east Africa. The best way to prevent jigger problems are health and hygiene education, ensuring a clean environment and simply putting on shoes. However it's very difficult for many east Africans to afford shoes when the average daily income is only $2USD and there is a severe lack of resources and infrastructure.
The dilapidated school buildings reveal the lack of educational resources in rural East Africa. Classrooms are either built with thin metal sheets or framed by branches and plastered with mud. In some cases, they don't even have school buildings. All teachers can do is teach under the trees.
In addition to transforming the unloaded, empty containers into classrooms, the Container School Project structures are also built with locally-made bricks. In this way, we provide a safe and secure environment for pupils to study, creating a better tomorrow together.
Water is essential for all of us to maintain body function, and it is a crucial part of our everyday lives. Without water, we cannot survive. People living below the poverty line in rural Africa share untreated water with animals, Creating an even higher risk of contracting diseases. Millions of children's lives are in danger. Many health centres in rural areas are also incapable of providing comprehensive medical care without clean water.
In rural East Africa, the majority of the population are farmers, the food supply is sufficient, however, children are often malnourished due to a lack of food diversity. Green Life Farming project offers farming skills and knowledge to rural farmers, educating them on how to plant nutrient rich plants and vegetables, allowing them to thrive on nutritional diets throughout the year. At the same time, this project can also serve as a farming demonstration centre for teaching and training purposes. We all look forward to seeing long lasting transformation.
Sending volunteer groups from Taiwan to east Africa has been one of the long-term operations of Step30. Over the past few years, we have led 427 volunteers to walk into East Africa, visited over 100 families in villages, held jigger treatment for children, cared for orphanages and schools, and learned from African mama's what everyday life is like in the village.
3.1 billion people, which is 41% of the world's population, have no access to the gospel. This group of people are known as "Unreached people groups". So far there are only around 10,000 missionaries living among the Unreached people, which is about 3% of missionaries. "Preach the gospel to all creation" is God's will and His mission for the church. MOVE's goal is to use systematic ways to train and prepare missionaries before sending them out, supporting and motivating churches to respond to the great commission.
Our long-term goal is to transform villages with various developmental projects: preventing the spread of jiggers through Shoes for Life, setting up safe classrooms for children through Vessel of Hope, drilling wells for clean drinking water through Living Water, as well as promoting agricultural skills and balanced diets through Green Life Farming. Only when these projects are combined together in one village, will we truly see transformation.