If someone offered a truckload of anything you wanted and delivered it to your front door at no cost to you, what would be on your “wish list?”
Maybe you’d ask for a houseful of new furniture, new appliances or a newly remodeled kitchen. For the poor around the world, their wish list is quite different. For many, it’s a simple request for the most important gift of all… their very own Bible. Some would rather have this gift before any shipment of food, clothing or even shelter. Because our focus in serving the poor has always been care of the body, mind and spirit, Bibles have always been included in our Med Pack and Hope Pack gift boxes to children and families. We’re told that they are one of the most treasured items received.

For a poor mother in a rural village, basic medical supplies are what she most wants to see on that truck. Things as simple as a band aid or antibiotic cream could mean the difference between life and death for one of her children. For the doctors and nurses trying to provide basic medical care, life-saving medical supplies and equipment are the most desirable items. This past March, our partner in Zambia, Africa, joyfully celebrated the shipment of an entire year’s worth of medicine, including much-needed malaria medication for distribution through a hospital in Samfya. These supplies will help an estimated 40,000 people in the area at a cost per treatment of 31 cents!

The best news of all?

The total cost for shipping over one million dollars of donated medicine was only $12,500! These supplies are now being distributed to grateful families in the region. For a teacher who is barely earning a living wage and often doesn’t have access to simple items such as pencils and paper, imagine watching hundreds of textbooks, computers, school supplies and even food for your students appearing from the truck. For a hungry child, we are sending entire containers of nutritious food to our partners for only the cost of shipping. These shipments are providing tens of thousands of nutritious meals to hungry children per year.

For the children we serve, we’re not only helping to feed hungry bodies, but hungry minds as well. Bright Hope was recently able to ship a million dollars of textbooks to school children in Zambia — for a total cost of $10,000!

Your help with our shipments of food, shoes, computers, bicycles, Bibles, textbooks and gardening tools will continue to pour out blessings to tens of thousands of people in need. Plans are now under way to ship a container to the Philippines with all the contents for an entire medical clinic, including new equipment and supplies obtained at a drastically reduced cost. This new clinic will be associated with the local church. Christian doctors will provide the kind of basic care that has been needed for a very long time in this impoverished community.

However, we need your help. We can purchase all the contents for this clinic, rent the facility and ship it for a total cost of $57,600. Please help today. Every donation of any size will help us accomplish this goal. The impact of your gift will be multiplied tenfold through our Relief en Route container shipments.

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