Greetings to all beloved families of the Endeavour Freedom Orphanage Home, Lahe, Myanmar. We thank God for His constant love and protection of the orphanage despite hard and tough times in Myanmar. We also deeply appreciate and thank all donors for constantly sending help to keep the Orphanage running.
The situation in Myanmar is always going from bad to worse with the covid pandemic restrictions and civil war happening across the country. The World Bank estimates an 18 percent contraction in Myanmar’s economy in the 2021 fiscal year. In 2022, the poverty rate is likely to more than double compared to pre-covid levels in 2019.
WFP’s latest market monitoring in June showed a continued increase in the price of fuel (48 percent), cooking oil (37 percent), and rice (13 percent) compared to pre-February. Overall, the cost of a basic food basket has increased by 16 percent. These increases will significantly worsened the precarious situation faced by many poor and food-insecure households.
Also, a recent report by the UN Human Rights Office stated that Myanmar is facing an economy in freefall. The sharp depreciation of Myanmar currency (kyat) has caused the rise in commodity prices such as essential foods, medicines and fuel which is severely impacting peoples’ daily lives.
An estimated 1.2 million jobs have been lost in Myanmar when compared to the final quarter of 2020, representing a 6% drop in employment. All this is happening in reality affecting our day to day life. With this situation all over Myanmar, we are foreseeing tougher days ahead in Naga areas in Myanmar as well.
The staff of Endeavour Orphanage and myself are concerned about what is going to happen in the coming few months in Myanmar. We need to really get stock of all necessary commodities and work to complete our housing work project in our new side of the orphanage before any worse days come.
We are therefore working hard to get the girls dormitory completed before December ends and prayerfully we hope the boys and girls and all the staff of Endeavour Orphanage Home can be put together on the new plot of the orphanage. Besides, the children are learning to harvest and do all the preparation for building our dormitory. They’re good at what they’re doing, they’re learning life skills though they’re aren’t attending school as vaccines are being enforced for all children to sit in class. For now we are also facing difficulties as the girls are still in our old home whereas boys are in the new Orphanage plot. Outside of town we are burdened with extra expenditures in two ways.
Alongside learning the Bible, we focus on the task of living from the land, agriculture and herding. Along this beautiful land plot that The Most High has blessed us with, we have made so many amazing developments: running water, solar power, boys dormitory, and kitchen. The girls are continuing to stay in the original home in the town, but the threat of persecution from the neighbors remains a danger. Therefore our eyes are set on the completion of this newest building that will house the girls and provide a place of freedom for all the children to worship and sing as loudly as they want as they tend to the animals and crops.
Therefore, our prayers and requests to you all, to kindly keep us in your prayers and send as much help as possible so that we could prepare and get ready for any worse situation that may come anytime soon.
May Yah bless all who have been joining us from the start to this day for the orphans in Naga hills of Myanmar. Praise God we are progressing and improving as each day passes despite the country’s tense situations.
With much love and regards.
[Naogang Jacob & Justin Garcia, Endeavour freedom Orphanage, Lahe Myanmar. We are a front-line ministry aimed at feeding the hungry. In varying locations worldwide, our missionaries are dedicated to sowing The Gospel of Salvation. Contact: https://www.facebook.com/EndeavorFreedomInc]
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