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Introducing Hands of Freedom personalized fundraising pages
You don’t have to be an experienced fundraiser to help Hands of Freedom pull families out of the clutches of poverty in India. We can create your personalized fundraising page so that it’s easy for you to help us rescue children so they do not end up trafficked into...
Hands of Freedom Update August 2020
It has been close to five months that we have been in this start/stop season. Some places are still in lock down and some you are able to move freely about. Our prayer is that this will be a season where you experience an extra measure of His grace and peace to deal...
Hands of Freedom Update July 2020
As we continue during this uncertain season, we are reminded of the one certainty that we can count on and that is our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. He is a God who never leaves us or forsakes us, and is with us to the end of the age. As the COVID cases begin to...
Hands of Freedom COVID-19 Update
Thank you, friends and supporters for your generosity. Your food packet donations are SAVING LIVES! We have been able to bless 1,000 families with food packets which have helped sustain them during these unprecedented and uncertain times. We are reminded that the...
The church has left the building
More than two months ago, the Indian government locked down the entire country at 8 p.m. with only four hours of lead time. Public transportation abruptly ceased. Millions of migrant workers, stranded hundreds of miles from home without their daily wages, instantly...
$25 feeds a family of four in the slums of India
THANK YOU to everyone who has already so generously donated food packs to those in dire need. You are making a difference! The food packs distribution has begun but the need is ongoing. On April 9, Hands of Freedom began collecting donations to create food packs for...
Millions in India can’t take measures to be safe
As with much of the world, India is in lock down. But that’s where the similarities end for millions of families living in India’s slums. As you take precautions to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus, please take a moment to thank God for the blessings He has...
We dream of giving children hope and dignity through education
For centuries, it was illegal for India’s lowest class – the Untouchables – to get an education. Even today, few families living in the slums can afford for their children to attend India’s fee-based school system. Inside the classroom, Untouchable children are...
These are our dreams for 2020
Every mother dreams that her children’s lives will be better than her own. In the slums of India, mothers dream that their children will have enough to eat and clean drinking water. They dream of sending at least one child to school. They dream that their children...
2019 brought hope to children struggling in India’s slums
India’s slums don’t just exist on a movie soundstage. Every day, some 40 to 45 million children struggle to survive in filthy, disease-ridden conditions we would find deplorable. Trash floats in the same contaminated water used for bathing. Working toilets are rare....