A Global Glance

Bringing Hope to those living on less than $1 a day.

Bright Hope works to provide holistic help to the extreme poor through the indigenous church delivering basic needs including:

• Physical: food, clothing, shelter, medicine and education.

 

• Economic: micro-loans and job training to produce a product for fair trade.

 

• Spiritual: poverty is not just a physical or economic condition. There are emotional, psychological, and relational wounds from living in poverty that only Christ can bring healing to.

 

Projects by Core Mission Categories (2009)

 

 

Our service is model is unique:

• We encourage INDEPENDENCE: At Bright Hope we want everyone we serve to have hope for their future. We accomplish this by initiating job creation programs so that people can earn a livable wage and begin providing for themselves and their families.

 

• We SUPPORT the initiatives of the local church.

 

• We have FUN, INFORMATIVE AND HELPFUL events that you can do with your family, church neighbors or small group.

 

• We are ACCOUNTABLE: Bright Hope is a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA) and has a four-star rating through Charity Navigator.

 

 

Number of Lives Impacted by Country (2009)

 

Kenya

location: Eastern Africa
population: 39,002,772
median age: 18.7 years old
life expectancy: 57.86 years
religion: Christian (45%), Muslim (10%), Indigenous Beliefs (10%)
aids prevalence: 6.7%
below the poverty line: 50%

All stats courtesy of CIA World Factbook