Wheel Chairs for Guatemala

A container was loaded today in Abbotsford bound for Chimaltenango, Guatemala. The main focus was the 175 wheelchairs including a number of electric scooters but it also contained school supplies, sewing machines and other humanitarian items.

Hope Haven Ministries from Surrey BC collect and refurbish wheelchairs to be donated to third world countries. Upon arriving in the country they pre-screen recipients to make sure they match up the right wheelchair to the person in need.

The container will leave the port of Vancouver in approximately one week and take about three weeks to arrive.

Container Begins Journey to Uganda

On October 9, 2011 a ship set sail from the Port of Vancouver carrying with it a container to be delivered to Kampala Uganda. The materials on this shipment are for a very special purpose, to support the children of the Watoto Children’s Choir. The Choir tours throughout the world to raise awareness and funds to support orphan children in Africa.

The container was loaded at our Langley facility and is filled with rubber mats, clothing, filing cabinets, blankets, school supplies, medical equipment, sewing machines and other equipment. Many of these items were supplied by GEMS while others were brought in from Salmon Arm and Victoria. The container, which was generously donated by Big Steel Box Co., was filled by the men of Wagner Hills recovery home.
To learn more about the Watoto Children’s Choir and the work they are doing in Kampala Uganda visit their web site: Watoto Children’s Choir

Container Sent to Zambia

A container destined for Zambia was loaded on September 24, 2011 and will depart the port of Vancouver on October 9, 2011. This shipment is a joint effort by the Seeds of Hope Children’s Ministry through GEMS and for Grace Academy. It will sail across the Pacific through Asia and land at Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania – which indecently means “harbour of peace”. From there it will be trucked to Lusaka, Zambia and then on to N’dola for unloading.

The 40 foot container, which was donated by Big Steel Box Company of Abbotsford, is filled with: educational supplies, clothing and building materials for the new facility and home for HIV infected children erected by the Grace Academy and will land there near the end of December 2011.

For more information please go to; www.seedsofhopecm.com/index.php

Thanks to volunteers

Thanks to volunteers from the Chilean community in Richmond and our friends from Wagner Hills in Langley, we loaded two large 40 ft. containers in June – one to Chile on June 19, and the other to Romania on June 27.  This brings our total to 12 40 ft. containers for the year.  

Our first container to Chile has also arrived and we are anticipating further information regarding that any day now. Please pray that all goes well with these containers.  

Among other cargo on board our 2nd container to Chile this time were over 360.000 servings of soup from the Gleaners in Oliver and an X-Ray machine (a complete unit) originally donated by the hospital in Trail. This shipments is going to the city of Tirua – a small town near the city of Conception which was greatly damaged by earthquakes earlier this year.  The mayor of Tirua has already welcomed this shipment as do many other people in Chile. The cargo is scheduled to reach Chile in a few weeks time.

Soup for Haiti

January 22, 2010

container being loaded at Heppel’s Farm in Surrey

The news is full of images of the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti. These are real people with real needs. Thanks to the incredible response of our supporters, donors and volunteers, we’ve been able to help. Our first container load containing 1.1 million servings of soup mix plus tents and tarps is on its way. Thanks to East West Express which trucked the container free of charge to Montreal on the first leg of its journey. Because of the lack of port facilities in Haiti, the container will is going to the Dominican republic and from there will be trucked to Port au Prince.

Supporting Displaced Myanmar People

Exact numbers are difficult, but it is estimated that there are well over 300,000 Myanmar refugees living in northern Thailand. These people who have fled the military regime in Burma must survive the constant threat of armed raids, and deplorable living conditions. They face discrimination with no basic human rights protection.

A shipment of household goods, clothing and educational material has just departed our warehouse for northern Thailand.

Clothing and Supplies to Romania

The truck is just pulling away with a load of clothing and supplies destined for Romania. The clothing was collected, sorted and compressed into bales in our Langley warehouse and should arrive in Crihalma (small village just outside of Brasov), Romania in early February.

Water and Food for Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a country standing on the brink of two decades of turmoil. Imagine hyperinflation reaching well over 200 million percent and an unemployment rate conservatively estimated at 80 percent.

We’ve facilitated three shipments to Zimbabwe to ease the suffering and poverty there.

The first has already arrived. It contains 250,000 water purification packet. Each packet can purify 10 litres of water in under 30 minutes at a cost of less than a penny a litre. That means $40 can provide clean drinking water to an entire family for one year. For this shipment we are working in partnership with Pure Compassion Ministries. Mercy Air flew the packets into Harare from Malawi.

Two other shipments are en route by sea and should arrive in two to three months. One was shipped from Norfolk, Nebraska in partnership with Orphan Grain Train. It contains 300,000 meals of a nutrient enriched rice along with clothing and medical supplies. Another container was sent from our Langley, BC warehouse. We packed it full of 420,000 meals of soup from the Fraser Valley Gleaners along with clothing, educational material and medical equipment.