The new staff and visitors housing block – completed in 2014.
Shepherd’s Heart International Ministry
SHIM Guest Housing Block
- Cost: $10,000 – Completed! Thank you for your generosity!
Fencing for SHIM Property
- Cost: $4,000 – Completed! Thank you for your prayers!
Water Purifying Systems for every island. 17 down, about 30+ to go!
- Cost: $2,000 each
Small Business Loans for Islanders (enables islanders to be trained and assisted in starting life-sustaining businesses.)
Lingira Living Hope Secondary School
The second phase of the teachers’ housing was completed in September 2017.
Building/Equipment
- Brick Teacher’s Dormitory – $10,000 – Completed!
- Bunkbeds for the hostels – $60 each
- Desks – $25 each
- Brick School Kitchen – $4,000 – Completed!
- Water Tanks for Collecting Rain Water – $4,000 – Partially completed. (A long-term solution is being sought for providing water for the campus – estimated 260 ppl.)
Sponsorships for Students
- The Child Development Sponsorship Program costs $30 a month for each student. This takes a student from kindergarten through high school. To sponsor a student in junior college or
Recent graduate Sandra Watera honors her mom at a Nov. 2017 graduation party on Lingira Island. (Sandra, who completed a two-year vocational course, is her family’s first graduate.)
vocational it is $50 a month, and for college/university sponsorships it is $100 a month.
- Non-sponsored students at LLHSS now have the option of participating in a cost-sharing/fees incentive program, in which if they pay 80% of their fees within a set time, SHIM will pay the remaining 20%. Funding for this program comes from donors who wish to support education on the island and/or LLHSS. Any dollar amount is accepted.
Video on how the sponsorship program is helping island students.
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