The New Life Evangelistic Center in India:
NLEC India director Paparao Yelchuri

 

Beginning in 1987 NLEC established an orphanage in Kakinada, South India to care for orphans.  Steadily this work grows to include a medical clinic, a school, street evangelism, and a feeding program.  From here, NLEC’s outreach program extends to, among other programs, several orphanages (caring for hundreds of abandoned children), schools (free, for about 400 poor children), feeding programs, medical clinics, assistance to lepers (including 200 leper families in Kakinada, who receive food provisions 12 times monthly, and attend weekly medical help programs). 

NLEC runs regular medical camps to the tribal people in Andhra Pradesh state and in the Orissa States, bringing medical doctors and staff to the doorsteps of the needy. Ailments treated include a severe form of Chicken Pox, Malaria, Tuberculosis, chronic infections, and Gunya in the adults, and Scabies, Bronchitis, Arnoebiasis, Malnutrition in the children.  Through these medical camps, NLEC is able to help hundreds of poor patients monthly.

A major earthquake in 1993 and a major flood in 1996 in India are met with compassion as NLEC funds a rescue and reconstruction operation.

NLEC provides the essential aid of providing clean drinking water to a number of poor villages by digging water wells, thereby combating high mortality rates in infants and children and reducing mosquito-born illness by eliminating villagers’ dependence on nearby ponds for bathing and drinking water.

NLEC begins the Safe Mother and Child Program to bring regular aid to destitute pregnant women, providing them with nutritious food and medical attention to greatly improve their odds at healthy births.

New Life is also running 3 Vocational Training Programs for nearly 200 poor women and teenage girls.  Here, women are trained skills in sewing clothes, embroidery, making soft toys, knitting handbags with plastic wire, etc. Click here to view and order handbags!

Another NLEC self-employment program focuses on equipping poor families with tricycles (a popular local means of transportation for persons and goods).  These families thereby are able to earn a small income for food and basic needs. 

NLEC also conducts a number of medical awareness programs for sex workers and at-risk teenagers, and several moral support programs for those infected or effected with HIV/AIDS.

After the tragic tsunami of December 26, 2005, NLEC feeds over 2,000 tsunami victims in South India, and gives shelter to 800 more.  While more highly publicized than other disasters, this relief continues a path already set by New Life’s consistent aid to the hardest-hit victims of floods, fires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

NLEC, India, is helping countless tribal people increase independence and productivity by way of providing solar lamps, and equipping people to use cow dung for energy.

NLEC opens the “City of Refuge” in Kakanada, India, providing food, shelter, training, and energy independence for up to 300 more people.  While assisting a wide range of people, the City of Refuge has been designed with a special concern for homeless senior citizens. 

To become a part of this on-going mission in India,
To sponsor an orphan child for $20 a month, click here

You can write to:
NLEC India Sponsorship
PO Box 473
St. Louis Missouri  63166

Or phone: 1-800-242-3276

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