Annual Fundraising Appeal 2024-2025
Save A Family Plan has launched our annual year-end appeal, “BUILDING ON HOPE,” to friends and supporters to raise the funding needed for Community Development Projects for impoverished families and communities in India. In addition to our Family Development Program, which works directly with families, Save A Family Plan’s Community Development Programs address poverty-related conditions on a larger scale. There are many projects, large and small, that are planned for Fiscal Year 2024-25 and we need your help to that ensure they are funded. Click here to see the PDF appeal form.
We hope that you will be inspired to pledge your financial support. Please donate today!
The women participating in our Women’s Empowerment Project hand-crafted platters with leaves that they harvested from local forests. They then sold these for use at banquets and weddings. This project is one example of how our participants can earn a livelihood with a small business that is sustainable and eco-friendly.
Not only do the women gain employment, build business skills, and important social connections, they are also able to create a product that is in demand, all-natural, and biodegradable. They earn an income with local materials and no harm to the environment.
We are introducing two additional eco-friendly projects in the coming year: Biogas Stove Systems and Household Solar Power Generation. Both programs focus on the health and everyday needs of our partner families by accessing the abundant clean energy sources that already exist, but are just beyond their reach due to poverty.
Project Spotlight: Biogas Stove Systems
For a family living in poverty, biogas is more than just converting waste into a valuable heating source. Less garbage means less disease and fewer vermin. A fuel source that is steady and reliable, when electricity is not available, can mean being able to boil water for food and drink. This eliminates the risk of potentially deadly diseases such as Typhoid, Hepatitis-A, and diarrhea, which are leading causes of death for children under 5.
Project Spotlight: Household Solar Panels
India is a country that is technologically advanced. And yet, for people living in extreme poverty in remote rural areas, there is often little or no access to electricity. Solar-generated energy transforms the lives of a family by providing them with power for cooking, interior lighting for the children to study, exterior lighting to ward off snakes and rodents, and electric fans to provide some relief from the intense heat.