Brief descriptions of current projects and funds
- GEM General Fund
This is GEM's undesignated fund. These funds are not designated for any specific project. It is left to the discretion of GEM management to use the funds for any of GEM's projects.
- Adventist Health Service - Africa
The purpose of this service is to help upgrade mission hospitals and clinics in the East Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It is to encourage and provide efficient and caring delivery of health services as well as make them accessible, quality controlled and affordable. The hospitals will be places where hope is shared instead of despair. Many hospitals are now in a sad state of repair and need urgent help. Donations will be distributed to designated projects by the coordinators - Bob and Joy Butler, CEO and EA of AHS.
Website: AHS Africa
Facebook group: Adventist Health System-Africa
- Swiss - Sierra Leone Development Foundation
Operating in the Western and Northern areas of Sierra Leone, West Africa, the Swiss - Sierra Leone Development Foundation (SSLDF) is a non-government organization with the aim of improving and promoting sustainable socio-economic stability for the well-being of vulnerable groups such as mothers, children and war victims, as well as leprosy and polio patients.Read More
- Cradle of Love (Tanzania)
Giving much needed care and nurturing to orphaned and abandoned infants in Tanzania, the Cradle of Love Baby Home needs your help to provide love and security. Read more about Staci and Davona on their website.
- Scheer Memorial Hospital Fund
This fund provides resources for education and medical projects at Scheer Memorial Hospital, a well-established hospital in Nepal. Some of the funded projects include cleft lip/palate surgery, training for people in various medical disciplines, special surgical needs that can only be done outside of Nepal, as well as outreach clinics in various surrounding villages.
- Orphans Fund
This fund provides support for orphans at various orphanages.
- E Robert Reynolds, Jr. Student Loan Fund
The purpose of this fund is to help students at Pakistan Adventist Seminary to help themselves make it through college and become employable with increased opportunities for success due to having a good education. Also, as they pay back their loans, they in turn help other students, and hopefully the cycle will continue.
The fund is named in memory of E. Robert Reynolds, Jr. [known to his friends as Bob], who for many years served as a teacher, librarian, church pastor, and was the first Academic Dean for Pakistan Adventist Seminary [PAS]. He was also very instrumental in moving the school from being a secondary school to being a full fledged college, with full academic standing. In addition to service at PAS, he served the Pakistan Union of Seventh-day Adventists in a number of capacities throughout Pakistan. [ . . . read more]
- Mission of Gratitude
This fund is used to support Your Story Hour projects in developing countries.
- Water Project for Rwankeri Secondary School (Rwanda)
This project will provide much needed water for more than 800 students attending Rwankeri Secondary School in the northern provence of Rwanda. [read more]
- Sierra Leone Fund
This fund provides resources for education and medical projects in Sierra Leone.
- Combe Home
This project is a rehabilitation home for battered women in Nepal. The greatest cause of death for women in Nepal between the ages of 15 to 35 is suicide. For many, this is the only option available to terminate an abusive relationship Only about 15% of the women in Nepal are literate which puts them at a real disadvantage when it comes to self-sufficiency. Vocational and literacy training is given to these women with an endeavor to make them self-reliant.
- Gospel Workers/Projects
This fund provides salaries for national Gospel workers and resources for church building projects. GEM has been sponsoring six Nepali gospel workers for the past six years. Until recently, their work had to be done in secret and baptisms were conducted behind closed doors or across the border in India. Not long ago, a pastor was sent to jail for baptizing new converts which resulted in only one or two conversions per year. Things have changed. Now there are hundreds of baptisms per year and they can take place openly. [Read more about gospel workers ] that have been trained and funded by GEM.
- MARS Project
This project is an addiction recovery program in Mexico.
- High School in Dongoro Ethiopia
This school has been reduced from a 4-grade high school to a 2-grade junior high. Ethiopians from England and the US are raising funds to upgrade the infrastructure so the school can be a 4-year high school again.
- Palau School
Funds for this project are used to provide needed equipment such as computers.
- Philippine Outreach Fund
The purpose of this project is to provide resources for medical and education assistance to the underprivileged of the Philippines.
- African Education
This fund provides scholarships for students at various schools and universities in Africa.
- Ukraine University
This fund is used to provide needed equipment.
- Looker Trust FundThis is a trust fund set up by the Chuck Looker family. Interest from this fund is used for education and medical projects in developing countries. A significant portion of the interest is used to educate girls and young women.
- Mary Bicknell Trust FundThe Bicknell Trust Fund is a fund set up in honor of Mary Agnes Bicknell. Interest monies from this fund are targeted to projects as determined by the family of Mary Bicknell. Mary was born in Chester, Indiana . . . [read more]