We wouldn’t be who we are without are amazing partners! To learn about these organizations and the work they are doing to help put an end to different social injustices please click on their names below.
Hunger
Malnutrition
Human Trafficking
Children’s HopeChest is a global leader and innovator in orphan care ministry. Since 1994, their programs have helped bring children out of the isolation of orphanhood and into the joy and warmth of family programs.
They have focused on providing food, support, child sponsorship and so much more to countless orphans in Russia and Africa.
Children’s HopeChest believes that every orphan has the right to know God, experience the blessing of family, and have the opportunity to develop independent living skills.
We are thrilled to be partnering with this organization because of their extreme dedication to serving and helping these children. They are a ministry that operates with a level of integrity that goes far beyond the status quo, recognizing the crucial role that they play in the lives that have been set before them.
President of Children’s HopeChest, Tom Davis, has exemplified the leadership skills necessary to ensure our partnership with the Moju Project will allow for a maximum impact in the lives of these orphans.
We encourage you to learn more about Children’s HopeChest by visiting these websites:
*Primary Website
*Tom Davis’ Website
Thank you Children’s HopeChest for joining us in saving lives!
The founders of Project Peanut Butter are Dr. Mark and his wife Mardi Manary. Dr. Manary is the co-inventor of the ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) that has been declared the most effective treatment against Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) by the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF. Their RUTF formula has had a success rate of 96% in curing SAM. Children who are severely malnourished are identified through traveling clinics, and then their mothers are given a supply of the RUTF to feed the child for 3 to 6 weeks. These children not only survive, but they experience normal development after treatment. This is remarkably important, as children who just survive SAM have stunted mental and physical development.
If you have not heard of Project Peanut Butter (PPB), you need to check out their website and watch their amazing video on this page. We cannot begin to describe our excitement towards working together with Project Peanut Butter to save the lives of orphans in Africa!
Project Peanut Butter works on the ground in certain parts of Africa to provide clinically malnourished children with a proven formula to effectively restore their health through a medical food commonly referred to as Ready to Use Therapeutic Foods (RUTF) or Chiponde to the locals.
Through our partnership with PPB we hope to raise awareness about the amazing work this organization is doing, to help further their mission (every shirt we sell through Moju Project will provide a child with 1 week’s worth of this life-saving formula), to continue to be a voice and an advocate for these children, and to provide you with the opportunity to save lives!
Here is what we love about these guys!
- They are targeting the most vulnerable children and helping to reverse the heart-wrenching statistic that encompasses the fact that every year Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) contributes to the death of more than 3.5 million. It is the largest killer of children under five years of age.
- Their formula is made and distributed within local countr(ies) where it is being served and using as many local ingredients as possible- providing jobs for roughly 6,000 local farmers
- Their program is home-based; meaning the mommas and the gogos (grandmothers) are able to treat their children at home. We think this is really empowering to the family and by keeping these children out of the hospital they do not run the risk of contracting any viruses/ etc. that is very common due to the lack of sanitation at most hospitals.
- The recovery rate for children on this therapy is 95% compared to the 25-40% recovery rate of using traditional hospital therapies- that is more than double the amount of lives saved!
- Children that are clinically diagnosed by the medical team at Project Peanut Butter receive therapies for as long as medically necessary and at NO COST.
- RUTF was commended as the most effective method to treat severely malnourished children by the United Nations, The World Health Organization, and UNICEF.“…a food that may just the be the most important advance ever to cure and prevent malnutrition”- Anderson Cooper, Oct. 2007
- The formula for Chiponde is natural; consisting of peanuts, powdered milk, oil, sugar, vitamins and minerals. It can be stored without refrigeration for months without spoiling and requires no cooking.
Today, Project Peanut Butter serves hundreds of thousands of malnourished children. Their goal is to save 2 million children by 2015. We want to be a part of seeing that goal achieved and surpassed!
Part of our vision at the Moju Project is to change the world by changing the way we shop! If we all join together and reach out to those who need it most- we are making a difference…even more than that- we are seeing God’s Kingdom come to earth and His will being done!
Thank you Project Peanut Butter for joining us in saving lives!
Please check out this extremely powerful video by Project Peanut Butter and join us in being a voice for the voiceless, bringing hope to those who need it most!
It is estimated that between 600,000 and 800,000 people each year are trafficked across international borders for a total of nearly $10 billion dollars– the third highest volume for a criminal enterprise. Of that $10 billion, $4 billion is estimated to be directly related to the brothel industry and sex trafficking – the primary target of most investigations into this practice.
The UN estimates that nearly 4,000,000 individuals are trafficked each year, with a disproportionate number of children and women in the sex trade.
UNICEF estimates that as many as 50% of all trafficking victims worldwide are children and that as many as two thirds of those children are at some point forced into the sex trade. Cambodia is known to have one of the highest rates of child sex trafficking in the world.
That is just the tip of the iceberg but is obvious to see that this injustice needs to be brought into the light and we must do something…
So after praying and asking God what can we do? We started a partnership with an incredible faith-based organization; Daughters Cambodia.
As an organization, Daughters recognizes the impact of sexual exploitation as an abuse of human rights with detrimental effects on psychological and physical wellbeing. Daughters seeks to help victims find ways out of this situation and into a situation of safety, freedom and dignity, to find wholeness, and to become all that God created them to be. They operate a day-centre in an area of brothels in Cambodia, one in which sex workers come directly to the organization from the sex industry by choice. They come because they are already motivated to change their lives, and Daughters gives them choice and dignity in building a different future, that make their choices sustainable and respects their human rights. The activities and programs are designed to empower victims of sexual exploitation to set themselves free from enslavement through employment opportunities and a wide range of social and psychological services.
Since Daughters started in January 2007, more than100 girls each year have left the sex industry to start a new life, and are experiencing healing and freedom from trauma. It is a model, which is having so much success because the life-style changes are internal, voluntary and holistic. Most girls are aged from 13 up to mid 20s.
We are so excited to be able to work hand in hand with Daughters to help shed light on sex trafficking and to make a tangible difference in the lives of these girls. We offer select handmade products; purses, scarves and more, created from the girls at Daughters that go towards supporting the efforts of this ministry and helping these beautiful girls….and wait until you see the attention to detail and quality of their work!
Thank you Daughters of Cambodia for joining us in saving lives!
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