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Matching Funds Opportunities: Any gift designated overseas will be matched dollar for dollar up to $10,000 by the United Lutheran Church Foundation. Or, any gift made to the 10th Anniversary Arusha Lutheran Medical Center will be generously matched by donors from United Lutheran Church! Let us be inspired and challenged to give generously and watch our gifts be doubled.
Hospital Gifts
Orthopedic Rehab Surgery: Full Cost = $500.00 (One Share = $25.00)
Children who live in areas with excessive fluoride in their water supplies develop bone damage and deformity to their legs so they cannot walk. Your gift means a child will now be able to walk, run, be active, and be an accepted part of his or her community.
One Week of Food: Full Cost = $80.00 (One Share = $30.00)
Plaster House is a place for children of all ages to come and prepare for or recover from surgery. Nourishment, medical watch and general care are all critical components to successful surgical procedures. In Tanzania, many children and families do not have adequate living standards to provide such care.
Post-Op Rehab: Full Cost = $45.00 (One Share = $20.00)
Plaster House is a place for children of all ages to come and prepare for or recover from surgery. Nourishment, medical watch and general care are all critical components to successful surgical procedures. In Tanzania, many children and families do not have adequate living standards to provide such care.
Cleft Lip Repair: Full Cost = $400.00 (One Share = $25.00)
Funds raised are sent to Selian Lutheran Hospital to provide cleft lip repair to a child in Tanzania. This is a wonderful ministry to those who have already suffered so severely from their trauma.
Birthing Injury and Incontinence Repair = $300.00 (One Share = $25.00)
Uzema means wholeness in Swahili. The Maasai people of Tanzania feel a deep need for wholeness in their relationships. Your gift will return wholeness to a woman who has suffered a birthing injury. Injuries like this leave a woman incontinent and ostracized from society. With surgical repair a woman can once again lead a full, productive life.
Neonatal ICU - 1 Week: Full Cost = $100.00 (One Share = $25.00)
The Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC) is Arusha’s newest and only full-service hospital, which offers general, and specialty care in many areas. Their mission is to serve, treat, and minister to the whole person; in body, mind, and spirit.They currently are in need of expanding their NICU to be able to properly care for the premature, low birth weight babies that are born in the area.
Education - Gifts of Support
Nursing School Scholarship: Full Cost = $1,000.00 (One Share = $25.00)
Nursing School Building Fund: Full Cost = $25.00
The Arusha Lutheran Medical Centre (ALMC) is Arusha’s newest and only full-service hospital, which offers general, and specialty care in many areas. Their mission is to serve, treat, and minister to the whole person; in body, mind, and spirit. In addition to their services, their newly developed nursing school has just graduated their first class with a 99.9% success rate in exams! They expect to be named one of the top schools in the country!
Moringe Sokoine Secondary School: Full Cost: $25.00
In Tanzania, secondary school (high school) is not free as the government lacks the financial resources to meet the citizens’ educational needs. Parents must pay for their children’s education and the school fees and other expenses are indeed a heavy burden.
Students who are privileged to attend secondary schools still face educational challenges like underpaid teachers, overcrowded classrooms, a lack of basic supplies, and an electricity shortage.
Phoenix Fund: Full Cost = $25.00
Phoenix Elementary School is our neighborhood school where students come first. We want to help all kids at Phoenix succeed, so we’ve started the Phoenix Fund! This fund will be used to provide shoes, coats, mittens, medication, park district scholarships and more to children and families in need.
Church Gifts
Support a New Congregation: Full Cost = $25.00
In the Monduli region of Tanzania, Africa, there is an exciting project going on. A group of Maasai women who have recently been baptized decided they would build their own church to worship in together. They have been working on this project with their bare hands for over three years now with limited finances and supplies. We have helped them with funds for a roof, window frames and doors, but they are not finished yet.
ULCW Gifts
Hospice Kit: Full Cost = $25.00
The HIV/AIDS Epidemic has added enormous challenges to health care worldwide. Missionaries, health care workers, and patients’ families in third world countries must provide daily care to AIDS patients who suffer from the symptoms of a devastating, end stage disease. It is not a disease we can ignore and it is not going away. A hospice kit includes: a towel, a washcloth, soap, a toothbrush and toothpaste, a comb, nail clippers, band aids, petroleum jelly, rubber gloves, and a devotional booklet.
Newborn Kits: Full Cost = $20.00
The birth of a baby should be a happy experience. In some countries, however, it brings new worries and problems. Global Health Ministries provides newborn kits that allow midwives and mothers to feel that they are not alone, that someone cares, and that they can welcome their babies into a safer world. A newborn kit includes: a sheet, bath towel, washcloth, bar of soap, newborn hat, baby t-shirt, and a receiving blanket.
ELCA Good Gifts
Simple Water Well: Full Cost = $2,500.00 (One Share = $50.00)
Access to safe water is essential to addressing poverty and health problems. Safe water is used for everything from drinking to crop production. Tanzania is arid with a long dry season, meaning that access to safe water is difficult.
God's Global Barnyard Options
~ Cow: Full Cost = $500.00 (One Share = $50.00)
~ Goat: Full Cost = $50.00 (One Share = $10.00)
~ Pig: Full Cost = $30.00 (One Share = $10.00)
~ Chicks: Full Cost = $10.00
An animal can make a world of difference for a family in need. Animals provide food to eat, fertilizer to grow crops and offspring to sell on the market.