The Most Important Gift You Will Give

This Year

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About Care for Life Alleviate suffering. Promote self-reliance. Instill hope.

Care for Life is a global non-profit organization with an approach to ending poverty. It preserves the family while encouraging and enabling the practice of self-reliance. Care for Life is not a handout organization.

HOW IS THIS ACCOMPLISHED? Care for Life’s Family Preservation Program focuses on the teaching and application of the 8 vital areas seen on your left.

WHY IS THIS HOLISTIC APPROACH TO THE FAMILY IMPORTANT? The improvement of one’s life cannot be approached in parts, but rather in addressing each part simultaneously. For example, it is not possible to talk about the fight against HIV/AIDS without giving due attention to the improvement of food and nutrition, as anti-ret-ro-viral treatment does not save an undernourished patient.

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Greetings from Cindy Packard, Founder of Care for Life

Dear Friends,

Let’s celebrate! We have reached a very important milestone by completing the five-year post-exit evaluation of our first Family Preservation Program village! This all started eight years ago, when with a lot of hope and excitement, Care for Life col-laborated with families in Mbatwe to teach the eight areas of life changing skills to become self-reliant. We worked with the families as they set goals and accomplished them. After 36 months we had a wonderful “Graduation Day” celebration, after which we exited the village as planned. The real test of effectiveness is when those who are helping, leave. Many experts believe that the change to overcome extreme poverty takes at least 25 years; however, 25 years is too long for us at Care for Life. We tracked our efforts with each family throughout the program and after we exited the community, we continued to evaluate yearly for the next five years. Our instinct was right! Tracking our efforts revealed that the program is very effective. Today the families are not only still applying the knowledge they learned, but are also im-proving. Best of all, they have shared the skills they acquired with other families in the area and surrounding villages. This is self-reliance at its best! This final assessment in Mbatwe is proof that the Family Preservation Program does indeed work and that the skills it teaches result in long-term sustainable change. We thank all of you who have helped with your much appreciated donations. We have pro-grams in 22 communities and have many more villages like Mbatwe desperately waiting to begin. With your continued help, we can reach those now living in despair and transform their lives.

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ResultsTHEY DID IT! Five Years of Sustained Success in Mbatwe.

EIGHT years ago Care for Life starting working in their first village, Mbatwe. Their condition was deplorable — no clean water, no electricity, terrible housing conditions, diseases such as cholera, malaria, tuberculosis were abundant, and about 20% of the village children died before the age of five. This all changed during the work with Care for Life.

But true success comes only when change is lasting and IT IS!

OF ALL FAMILIES STARTED THEIR OWN BUSINESS75% of rural families in Mozambique earn less than $1 a day.

59%CONTINUE TO TREAT

THEIR DRINKING WATERBefore Care for Life entered Mbatwe, 17% knew

that treating water would stop diseases.

92%DROP IN THE DEATH RATE 24 people died each month before the arrival of Care for Life in Mbatwe.87%

CHILDREN ATTENDING SCHOOL IN MBATWE NOW

Before Care for Life only 27% of children were attending school.

77%MALARIA PREVENTION BY SLEEPING UNDER A MOSQUITO NETPreviously only 39% slept under a mosquito net.97%

LITERACY RATE IN MBATWEBefore Care for Life only 41% of the community could read. 81%

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Long-Lasting Change and SuccessFive years of success in Mbatwe. The statistics prove it, but Domingo Manuel Bande is the real success.

Domingos Manuel Bande had lived in Mbatwe long before Care for Life had arrived. Today five years after Care for Life has exited Mbatwe he is a changed man - with a life improved beyond what he imagined possible, equiped with a knowledge that he can do it himself and empowered by the skills he learned.

His conviction of Care for Life’s power is personal and real: “We were taught the importance of sleeping under a mosquito net and the frequency of malaria in our family went down. We were given cement and with that cement we built a latrine. We were taught how to treat drinking water and we felt immediately better. Diseases that were common disappeared. We are now able to feed our family and are able to sell some to make money. Care for Life changed our life. They gave us so much, but the most important thing was knowledge.”

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The Most Important Gift You Will Give This Year

It’s a bold statement; we think you will agree it’s true.

HERE IS HOW IT WORKS:

• You select a gift from this catalog that is meaningful to your recipient.• You make the donation via the enclosed donation form or online. • You will give your recepient a gift that changes lives. • Thanks to your gift, one more family in Mozambique is on the road to self-reliance.

1. MAIL THE ENCLOSED ORDER FORM WITH A CHECK OR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION TO:

Care for Life3850 E. Baseline Rd., Ste 114Mesa, AZ 85206-4403

2. CALL 480-529-5290

3. ORDER ONLINE www.careforlife.org

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Education

Mariana Nazare is literate - something she never dreamed of.

When she was a little girl, she was asked to help her mother in the field, while her brothers attended school.

Education for girls is a right the world still fights for.

Mariana’s life immediately changed when she learned to read and write in Care for Life’s literacy class. Mariana is now able to:

• Sign documents for her children to attend school.• Read perscriptions for her sick children.• Able to catch a bus because she can finally read the sign.• Read directions to the hospital when emergencies occur.

Literacy is life changing!

GIFT OF EDUCATION:

$10 PENCILS FOR LITERACY CLASSES FOR TWO VILLAGES

$25 NOTEBOOKS FOR LITERACY CLASSES FOR THREE NEWVILLAGES

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Health & HygieneFilth, garbage, human excrement - a common site in many rural villages in Mozambique. Lack of hygiene is rampant, parasites and malaria bearing mosquitos make it their home. Death and illnesses are life’s reality.

Jacinto Pedro Manuel and his wife, Fania Andreson, remember well the conditions before Care for Life was introduced in their village Nhamatanda. He recalls many times when he was deeply concerned for the life of his six children as they took weekly trips to the hospital because one was always sick.

Only three months of Care for Life’s teachings and everything changed. Latrines were built, garbage burnt, homes cleaned, mosquito nets installed and life changing skills taught.

The signs of real health change:

• No more water borne diseases such as cholera or diarrhea.• Families treat their drinking water and avoid serious illnesses.• Malaria cases are reduced. • Deaths are drastically reduced.

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In Jacinto’s own words: “Care for Life could have come in and just given people bricks for latrines, or food to eat, but what they brought was much more valu-able—they gave us skills and ideas.”

He started to burn his own bricks — enough to build a latrine and an attached washroom.

GIFT OF HEALTH & HYGIENE: $50 BAGS OF CEMENT FOR BUILDING TWO LATRINES

$2,500 BAGS OF CEMENT FOR BUILDING LATRINES FOR AN ENTIRE VILLAGE

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Food Security & Nutrition

Siblings Celeste (13) and Augusto (16), have strong incentives to stop the HIV/AIDS cycle in their family. Their father and two of their half-brothers died from AIDS.

Care for Life has made their life better by teaching them about prevention and how to live a better and healthier life, as good nutrition is vital in combating AIDS. Their first goal was to improve their food source and so their most notable achievement is their family garden. Last year they produced tomatoes, onions, lettuce, and kale.

GIFT OF FOOD SECURITY & NUTRITION:

$150 TOOLS FOR GARDENING FOR 10 FAMILIES

$500 SEED FOR A GARDEN FOR AN ENTIRE VILLAGE

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Psycho-Social Well-Being

Women’s human rights violation is a worldwide phenomenon. In Mozambique over 70% of women are sexually, phyically or mentally abused.

Care for Life is changing this by teaching the importance of family relations.

Zeria Fernando in the community of Mungassa shares:

Care for Life taught us that a married man should not hit his wife, but rather respect her as she respects him. And this was important for my husband to hear because up until now the situation in our home was really bad. My husband Carlito drank a lot and as a consequence was violent. But then Care for Life came and asked him whether he was smoking and/or drinking. I could not believe he admitted to doing both. And so Care for Life started to teach and work with him personally to overcome his vices. After a few month Carlito was able to give up both smoking and drinking. We are very happy now in our home. VERY happy.

This is what real change feels like.

GIFT OF PSYCHO-SOCIAL WELL-BEING:

$300 EDUCATE A FAMILY THROUGH GOALS AND REWARDS

$120 EDUCATE A WIFE AND HUSBAND THROUGH GOALS AND REWARDS$60 EDUCATE

AN INDIVIDUAL THROUGH GOALS AND REWARDS

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SanitationWhat would you give for reducing a two hour walk with a 42 lbs container of water on your head, to a few minutes. Everything!

Zinha Adjuita and Diolinda Elias, two mothers, understand the overwhelming dif-ficulty of keeping a large family clean and healthy without ready access to water. Water not just for drinking, but for cooking, bathing, washing the family’s clothes and dishes, and watering the family garden.

Building their own well seemed unattainable as they lacked the knowledge to succeed. They would build a well, but then the rainy season came, their wells always collapsed and quickly became a symbol of hopelessness for the villagers.

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Only 25% of the rural population in Mozambique has access to clean water. In Care for Life’s villages, that percentage is at 92%.

Care for Life came and taught them how to build strong, lasting wells. Zinha andDiolinda, as well as many other village members, immediately started to buildtheir own wells.

Now Diolinda and Zinha can walk to their well in less than a minute, and their water is free.

GIFT OF SANITATION: $100 MATERIAL FOR 20 FAMILIESTO BUILD WELLS

$5,000 MATERIALFOR 1000 FAMILIES TO BUILD WELLS

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Income Generation90% of Africa’s population is stuck in the deep hole of poverty with no way to get out, with no resource, no help, no hope.

Care for Life’s Village Associations are proving to be the way out of the hole for the people in Africa.

How?

Village Associations are local self-reliant micro lending businesses. They are inno-vative and change the financial course in the lives of the families that participate. Participating individuals are at such a low economic level that they do not qualify for any kind of loan and so these associations are born from the need to have access to borrow money in order to start or grow a small business.

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Any Village Association consists of a group of families who act as the bank, the loaners, the business starters, and the builders.

They meet weekly with the community to discuss community needs, income projects and the association’s bank account where each member contributes to and borrows from. Each association has some type of income project that all participate in and receive benefit from. An example of this is the brick burning project, where all the members of the Association work on burning bricks to be sold on the market.

GIFT OF INCOME GENERATION:

$200 FUND THE START UP COST FOR VILLAGE CREDIT SAVINGS ASSOCIATION GROUPS

$75 FUND INFORMATION BOOKLET FOR CREDIT SAVINGS ASSOCIATION GROUPS

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Home Improvement

Few years ago 31 year-old Gil Nherere lived in a dilapidated hut, which he worked to improve. Unfortunately, when the heavy raining season started, his hut and all his hopes and motivation washed away.

The materials to rebuild his home didn’t exist in his surrounding area, so he walked all day to find enough grass, wood, and bamboo to build a suitable shelter. He dreamt that someday he would have enough money and resources to build a stronger house.

With the arrival of Care for Life Gil says he didn’t have to wait for someday. He could set goals, plan and take action to improve his home with the rewards earned from setting goals. As a result of the principles that he learned, he imme-diately set out to put in motion his dream of having a home he could be proud of.

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The prior photo shows Gil mudding the walls of his new home on the inside. As seen below, on the outside he has added a porch. He also created a sitting area with benches and constructed a fence that finishes the feeling of a well-cared for property and home.

GIFT OF HOME IMPROVEMENT:

$1,000 MATERIAL TO IMPROVE THE HOMES OF 50 PEOPLE

$10,000 MATERIAL TO IMPROVE THE HOMES OF 500 PEOPLE

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Community Participation

Mr. Mario Cubuanda was alone, filthy, lying on his floor mat, underweight and with his hands and feet almost entirely consumed by “mataquenha” worms. A condition that is ultimately fatal.

Under normal circumstances Mr. Cubuanda would have died, but because Care for Life teaches community members to look after each other, he was found by one of his neighbors, Joana. She recognized his situation and immediately set in motion the necessary events to get Mr. Cubuanda the medical attention he needed.

Mr. Cubuanda now feels a responsibility to serve and look out for his neighbors and is grateful for neighbors like Joana that looked out for him.

Community service paid forward!

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Thank you for your support and may your Holiday Season be rich in love.

We at Care for Life are so thankful for your continuous and future support.

Merry Christmas to all!

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