4 more sponsored!

After sharing ACRF with some churches in the States, we got news later that a family from Index wants to sponsor four children from the projects!

2 more sponsored!

We have 2 more children sponsored. The sponsors are from USA, Portland, OR. and Bremerton, WA.

Also, funds are coming to outfit Jantho and the playground in Punge school is almost complete.

Plans for 2008

• We hope to increase the number of sponsors for our children in Banda Aceh and Medan. There are 56 who have funding thus far of the approximately 190 we have registered. More are waiting to register with us.
• Outfitting of four buildings for widow and orphans ministry, three in Lhok Nga and one in Jantho. Connect Lhok Nga to water source.
• Start widow training in Jantho in January.
• Our team will move in February.

ACRF celebrates 2nd Anniversary!

We will celebrate the second anniversary of Asian Children’s Relief Fund with the opening
of the new orphan home in Medan on October 17th.

Some other news to celebrate:-

1. We have 3 new sponsors from England
2. We have pledge for $10,000 for outfitting the orphanage in Medan and part of Jantho.
3. We have pledge for a new motorcycle for Banda Aceh.
4. Stephen raised 335 Pounds for ACRF

Trip with our sponsors from England

Rob and Sarah Page (sponsors from England) visited us first in Malaysia, and together we went to Medan and Banda Aceh to visit the projects and the team there. On our journey over we were able to transport the other 2 computers - one to our orphanage director in Medan, the other for Nelson and Ruth, our project managers for Punge. The computer will give us greater reporting and administrative capability. A big thank you goes out to John who supported us by providing the three computer systems that are now in place.

We also were able to rent a house in Medan for two years to start our first orphanage in Indonesia. We now are sponsoring 11 children in Medan and hope to have this first home set up soon.

We visited all of the orphans and children at risk that we are sponsoring in Banda Aceh. We have now 40 children sponsored in Banda Aceh (the city itself) with about 100 waiting sponsors. The monthly birthday party was a big success with all of the family members of the children coming and participating. Sarah helped out by playing the guitar and teaching a new song to the children.


Aside from the sightseeing and visits to the projects in Banda Aceh, we also visited the sites in Jantho and Riting for our future projects. Someone has pledged to provide a desalination system for the location in Riting. This is an answered prayer as there is no fresh water available at the location. If the system can produce enough fresh water, even the refugee settlement across the road from us can benefit.

The Jantho location has 367 families that can be helped in the areas of child development and transportation to school. Most have to walk about 3 kilometers for elementary school and 5 to 6 km for junior and senior high school into town. The people also need help with micro-enterprise development. The government has given some land for husbandry use and we think we can help them with the fishpond development.

More sponsor's photos

Sponsor's photo

Notice the change in countenance of the sponsored child's face. Your care and love can and does makes a difference!




Photo recieved by the sponsors in Feb 2007


Photo taken at registration (2005)

More sponsor's photos

Sponsor's photos

Here are some photos of our sponsors from England with the letters written from the sponsored children.

More sponsors needed

We now have 110 sponsored (out of 250 children) with more waiting to register.

Your love matters!

New project in Medan with 7 children

In September we were able to visit our projects in Banda Aceh, also to start up a new project in Medan with 7 sponsored children, followed by a 2-day team retreat on Sabang Island.

We now have 107 children sponsored with 240 children registered in the Asian Children's Relief program (ACRF). We are also starting a project in one of the earthquake areas of Jogjakarta.