The situation
In the Philippines, many needy families have many children and often live in great poverty. Many of them struggle to survive on a daily basis. They have hardly any prospects for the future.
In the Philippines, many needy families have many children and often live in great poverty. Many of them struggle to survive on a daily basis. They have hardly any prospects for the future.
Our mission is to stand by these families to give them hope for a better future. We want them to experience God’s love through practical help and to be empowered so that they can build a stable life. This is done by distributing food, family support, school education and medical assistance. Together with a team of local staff and European partners, we have been pursuing this goal in Dumaguete and surroundings since April 2000.
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Torsten & Marie-Th. Benold with Team
What we do
Meal distribution & Kid’s Program
We make contact with families in need through our weekly Kid’s Program. It is a time of encounter and joy. The children and youth who attend the program first hear an exciting story from the Bible. We sing songs together and have lots of fun playing games and doing crafts.
Afterwards, they receive a warm and nutritious meal. This meal is freshly prepared and distributed in cooperation with the local mothers. Children and parents are happy about this time of fellowship, enjoy the delicious food and are very grateful.
School support
Our school support is for families whose children are unable to attend school continuously due to their limited ressources.
A completed school education is an essential foundation for the future of these children. Education enables them to break the cycle of poverty and build a stable life.
With our long term school support, we help them to make steps into the right direction and give them and their families hope for a better future.
We support students from Elementary School throughout High School, up to College.
Many of our beneficiaries, who have successfully completed their education due to our support have now a stable life. Some of them are electrician, primary school teacher, forester or hotel and restaurant manager, just to name a few.
Medical help
Most of the families we attend to have no health insurance. With their limited resources, they are usually able to cover the expenses for basic medicines such as headache tablets or cough syrup. However, if they have to go to the doctor or have to stay in the hospital, they are financially overwhelmed. In serious cases, such as pneumonia, a motorcycle accident or appendicitis, we stand by these families. We make sure that the patient receives the appropriate treatment and the necessary medication. Quite often, our help has made the difference between life and death.
In addition to providing practical help, we also give the patient and their family courage and hope and tell them that God himself cares for them.
Family help
The help we offer families varies depending on the family situation. It may be a food parcel with basic groceries that we weekly take to a single mother or a family with an unstable income. Sometimes we accompany families to the authorities, e.g. to apply for a birth certificate for school-age children or for a driver’s license. We help to build a house or install a solar panel on a nipa hut so that the family, who has no electricity can have light when it gets dark. Sometimes we are also called because a family member has died. We then comfort the grieving family and give them the needed practical support.
Who we are
Together with a team of local staff, we, Torsten and Marie-Th. Benold, have built up Step by Step Ministries. We have been working in Dumaguete and the surroundings since April 2000. With our 3 children we lived there as a whole family for 13 years. Our adult children now live in Europe.
Through long-term support and direct aid, we help families and children to break the cycle of poverty in which they live. On one hand, they receive practical help. On the other hand, we share with them the good news of God’s love.
These are the 2 legs, so to say, on which the work of Step by Step Ministries stands. With these 2 legs we move forward step by step and step by step the lives of children and whole families are permanently changed for the best.
Help that meets the need
Every one-time donation or every regular financial gift enables us to make the help practical and tangible. With your support, you are directly participating in the implementation, which makes a big difference in the life of many.
We are delighted that you are ready to invest into the work of Step by Step Ministries and thank you already in advance for your trust.
If you want to receive a receipt for your donation, please contact us via e-mail.
Banking details
Recipient: Step by Step Ministries
IBAN: DE 65 600 5010 100 044 72720
BIC: SOLADEST600
Contact
Address in Germany
Step by Step Ministries
Am Oelbachgraben 14
D-79599 Wittlingen
Address in the Philippines
Step by Step Ministries
P.O.Box 246
6200 Dumaguete City
Philippines
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