forty-five [45] unique programs that will inspire you to help serve the nations
NATIONS CRY, a non-profit organization, partners with both well-resourced and underfunded non-profit organizations that strive to help penurious, hurting, and desperate people worldwide. We maximize our impact to reach a broader audience with our message of hope, help, and healing, thus making a lasting difference in the world.
NATIONS CRY empowers donors to prayerfully select a program that resonates with them in a meaningful way and designate their donations to it. We have something for everyone.We understand that each donor has a different burden and passion, so we have designed various programs keeping the donor in mind. We provide donors with a sense of ownership and involvement in the work we do through nations Cry. Every donation, regardless of size, has the potential to make a positive impact to bring hope, help, and healing around the world.
NATIONS CRY has 45 distinct programs. Each program below is a unique opportunity to help and impact individuals, families, churches, and local communities in remote areas of the world where access and help are limited, and poverty is real. Prayerfully partner with us to be a blessing to the Nations. Your generosity will go a long way, and you will receive a report of its impact.
Below is a list of 45 "SIMPLY DOABLE" programs that will excite you. Click on each program for more information.
Rev. Jacob Mathew
Founder and President
NATIONS CRY
Families are the backbone of a strong society. Help singles,
couples, and families in their journey of life. Your donation can help heal, restore, and strengthen family relations, through Christ-centered and Biblically-based principles and strong Christian
mentorship.
You can partner with us to organize or sponsor pre-marital and marital counseling events and host parenting classes, and marriage conferences that will impact families, churches, and communities.
You can also help low-income families and missionary families by sponsoring their weekend vacations and outings.
Location: Various Nations
Nations Cry partners with a Christian Organization (ECFA accredited, Guide Star Certified, and Excellence in Giving Certified), that helps women experiencing unexpected pregnancies receive practical, spiritual, and emotional support through their local support groups.
This organization has a 700+ global support team that offers local help and support to pregnant single and pregnant moms for 12 weeks and arranges baby showers for them.
A Love Box is gifted to single young women who may be considering abortion. Each box has a personal invitation to a local church-hosted support group, a letter of hope, a pen and journal with writing prompts encouraging her to be fearless, a ‘Best Gift Ever’ onesie, and A Bump in Life book that includes testimonies that offer single and pregnant moms hope. The organization also has a 12-week mentored program for single dads who navigate the struggles of parenting alone.
Donate $15 for each Love Box.
Location: USA
Did you know that every ten seconds a newborn baby dies? Of the newborns that live, 3 million have died in their first 28 days.
Nations Cry partners with an organization that has saved over 475,000 babies worldwide, with their life-saving cost-effective portable incubators that are used in many nations. Save the lives of pre-term and term babies in remote parts of the world.
Donate $20 to save 1 life, $100 saves 5 lives, $500 saves 25 lives, and $1,000 saves 50 lives.
Location: Various Nations
Sponsor students from low-income families who are interested in enrolling or enrolled in Bible Institutes / Colleges / Seminaries that offer Bachelor’s, Master’s degrees, and Ph.D.
Nations Cry partners with Bible institutes, and Bible Colleges/seminaries, that offer low-tuition programs for students and pastors. You can also sponsor awards in your name or family name to reward students who have a good character, work ethic, and academic excellence.
Donate $30/month/student.
Location: Uganda, India, Bangladesh and Pakistan
We can help educate slum children who go to schools in India. These are the neglected children of prostitutes who end up being child laborers, gangsters, beggars, drug pushers, and addicts.
Help us to provide meals to these precious children, and also pay for the technical school, college, and university fees for students from poor families.
Donate to sponsor each school for a year. Monthly support of $100-200 for each slum school.
Location: INDIA
Sponsor mental health awareness seminars, counseling, and
psychotherapy assists individuals in dealing with stress, anxiety, mood disturbances, and
personality problems in underdeveloped and developing countries.
According to the
World Health Organization (WHO), 1 in every 8 people in the world live with a mental
disorder (that is 270 million people worldwide). Some people have access to effective care
and some people do not have access to effective care. They live in mental health deserts.
Did you know that 570 counties across the United States still have no psychologists, psychiatrists or counselors? If this is the case in The United States, imagine the condition in under-developed and developing countries.
Location: USA, AFRICA, ASIA
Globally, 85 million children are underweight. 73 million children attend school hungry. Help provide food, and vitamins to children in need of it.
Nations Cry partners with one of America’s top Charities and ECFA Members to provide meals to children worldwide. Help malnourished infants in poor communities receive
nutritious foods, formulated food, and care.
Donate $10 per child to provide a nutritious meal regularly for one month. You can also help by sponsoring meals in old-age homes, daycares, government hospitals, widows, and orphans and close the hunger gap.
Location: Various Nations
Did you know that 1 out of 5 girls living in this world are married before they turn 18? Train and educate girls in early childhood development, nutrition, health, hygiene, literacy, cooking, and even small-scale agriculture.
Nations Cry partners with one of America’s top Charities and ECFA members to equip women to start and successfully operate their businesses, through training methods such as Financial education, Vocational training, Cooperative savings groups, Microenterprise Business Training, and Providing start-up capital to overcome the poverty cycle.
Location: Various Nations
Help provide blankets to the homeless, prison inmates, Christians living in the
forests due to extreme persecution in their home villages.
Donate: $50 for 5 blankets and $100 for 10 blankets
Location: India, Pakistan
Nations Cry supports a reputed Christian organization in Kerala, India that focuses on the rehabilitation and development of children with special needs, who sadly, are often overlooked and neglected. This center provides a hostel, a vocational school, daycare, physical therapy, behavioral and occupational therapy, and a sensory room.
Provide meals for children with Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and Fragile X Syndrome, who are grouped according to their IQ level and chronological age, and trained separately.
Donate: Sponsor a child for $30/ month. Celebrate your special days with these adorable children by sponsoring meals for the children. Each meal would cost $120 and feed almost 60 people.
Location: USA, Africa, India
Help rescue children and adults from child and sex trafficking. Counsel, and educate children who have been rescued and now deal with various mental, emotional, and physical issues.
Nations Cry partners with an organization that conducts
slum schools in Mumbai, India for the children of prostitutes.
Donate: The suggested donation for slum school is $150 / month / school. Please consider annual support.
Location: India
Provide help to Adults and teens struggling with addictions. Your donation can help pay for their accommodation, meals, and treatment expenses. Christian de-addiction centers provide prayer and biblical counseling and teaching, restoring people to God and their families. Your donation offers hope to men and women with life-controlling addictions, helps them step into their calling, and trains them to be responsible persons in their families and society.
Donate: Sponsor an adult or teen undergoing rehabilitation for $35 per adult or teen (includes food, accommodation, counseling, and training). You will be able to view their profile when you are willing and ready to sponsor them.
Location: USA
Nations Cry partners with a Christian non-profit ministry in Houston that helps refugees find hope, help, and honor by welcoming them and assisting them with monthly rent, groceries, meals, and welcome kits.
This ministry needs volunteers for
the welcome team (Must attend 1 one-hour orientation class and training session) and sponsors for Welcome kits. Be ready to commit to one refugee family for 4-6 months, one personal visit with the family 2-3 times per week collectively in the first 2 months, then once per week thereafter.
Donate Kitchen Kits ($130- $160), Bathroom Kit ($135), Bedding Kit ($45-$80), Baby Kit ($95), Kid’s Kit ($180), Cleaning Kit ($125), Personal Care Kit ($95), and a Grocery Store Gift Card ($50 or $100).
Location: Houston, TX
Losing a spouse is devastating and the pain and grief attached to it is immense. Such people may have to deal with regrets, shame, anger, loneliness, fear, and much more.
In the midst of this, we are called to help such people deal with navigating loss and grief through a support group and help meet other needs. Nations Cry partners with organizations that provide monthly widow support and care in India.
Donate $25/widow monthly $625 to support 50 widows monthly.
Location: India
Nations Cry partners with orphanages in Coimbatore, South India, North India, and Pakistan to provide accommodation, food, education, and training with life skills to allow them to overcome hunger, disease, and illiteracy.
Provide monthly support of $30 per child. This monthly support will provide for their needs through college. Sponsors will receive a picture and personal information about the child.
You can also sponsor one-time meals for these children on your important dates. $120 for a one-time meal in your name or family name will feed 2000 children.
Location: Asia, Africa, Middle East
Nations Cry mainly partners with Prison Fellowship Bengaluru, India, founded by an ex-murderer who re-dedicated his life to Jesus and currently ministers to the inmates in the prisons of Karnataka, India, and their families.
Prisons in Karnataka are overcrowded and understaffed with 66% of the 54 prisons across the state reporting an occupancy of 100% and some at 258%. This organization also provides a monthly scholarship for education to 250 children of the current inmates.
Your donation of $10 can provide a monthly scholarship to a child, $50 for 5 kids, $100 for 10 kids.
Location: India
Help the elderly men and women who are most likely marginalized and kicked out of their homes. These elderly folks can be physically and mentally challenged, neglected, and homeless.
Your financial gift can help each elderly individual with their accommodation, medicines, and food.
Location: Uganda, India, Bangladesh
We need to provide help for Pastors and their families. Most Pastors in underdeveloped and developing nations have to raise money for their rent and also to support their families. There are so many expenses that Pastors struggle to meet.
Nations Cry will be partnering with organizations to help support Pastors and their families in India, Pakistan, Africa, and The Middle East.
Donate: Your monthly support of $100 will bless a Pastor and his family. As a sponsor, you will receive the pastor/missionary’s picture and a brief testimony and you can regularly pray for him/them.
Location: Asia, Africa, The Middle East
Help train local pastors and missionaries to be effective spouses, parents, Pastors, and leaders in their community.
Nations Cry will host leadership one-to five days of training to impact these men and women of God who will in turn multiply their impact at their home, church, and community. The plan is to identify potential leaders and send them to Bible College and Christian Leadership Training which involves seminars, conferences, and mentorship. Hundreds of young people want to attend Bible College and missionary training centers but are prevented from doing so because of a lack of funds.
Suggested Donation: Support a missionary trainee for $25 a month.
Location: Various Nations
Help indigenous Christian missionaries and Bible
College graduates establish local churches in the cities and villages. Most families open their homes for worship but when there is opposition and persecution from the neighbors or localites, they will have to find a new place. Help is needed to find a rental place
for Church gatherings and to provide discipleship.
Suggested Donation: Monthly amount of $100 for rent.
Location: Uganda, India, Bangladesh
One in 7 Christians is persecuted worldwide. More than 360 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith. We need to rise and help individuals and families undergoing religious persecution in their villages and neighborhoods for their faith.
These wonderful Christians have been beaten, kicked out of their homes, families, and villages lost their jobs, threatened, and killed. We need to support these persecuted individuals, families, and Churches and take care of the families of the martyred.
Suggested Donation: $100/family per month.
Location
ASIA,
AFRICA,
MIDDLE-EAST
To help sponsor outdoor and indoor meetings in
villages and cities to share the life-giving and life-changing Gospel of Jesus. Many come to be saved through revival meetings and conventions, and taking decisions for water-baptism.
Your donation will help bear/share the expenses of conducting these revival meetings, fasting and
prayer meetings, and small and large conventions where the Gospel of Jesus Christ is declared and its power demonstrated.
Location: USA, India, Uganda
Help send missionaries to mission school and help
new graduate ministers accept their call to go to places where God sends them. Provide help for missionaries and their families to go to new areas.
Donate: Invest in local and global evangelism and missions for 100/family per month.
Location: Various Nations
For transformation to
happen, people should experience God through the Holy Scriptures, which they must read and understand in their local language. Nations Cry supports ministries that invest in Bible translation and Distribution of Gospel literature.
Your donation can help gift Bibles, Braille Bibles, digital audio Bibles to those who cannot read Braille, and Scripture Selections (Tracts) to people in different languages.
Your donation of $10 per Bible can help people own a Bible, read it, engage with it and live by it.
Location: Various Nations
Help provide farm tools, animals, seeds, and fertilizers, to local farmers, women, and children who live below the poverty to sustain themselves with a a reliable source of nourishment and also for a livelihood.
Location: Various Nations
Help us to send relief services to areas stricken by war and calamities. Kitchen kits,(cooking pots, utensils, bowls, cups, plates, and spoons) are provided along with food kits, and clothes are provided to the needy people who lack the basic things. Life packs with water, essential hygiene items, a blanket, and other things are distributed.
Donating $100 can help 2 families with the necessary items.
Location: Various Nations
663 million people do not have access to clean water worldwide. In regions affected by drought, the critical shortage of clean water claims countless lives through dehydration and water-borne diseases. People in such rural areas have to walk long miles to carry water to their houses to bathe, cook, clean, and feed their cattle.
Nations Cry partners with local ministries that provide tube wells, and freshwater wells, that provide clean water for an entire community/village. Your donation can also provide water pumps, and water filters, that provide consistent sources of fresh water supply and clean drinking water to families, and communities.
Donate: You can donate the cost for an entire well or pay a share of the cost. Donate $1,000 to install a tube well with a pump or a water tank for a community for $2,200.
Location: INDIA, AFRICA and other Nations.
1 billion people worldwide practice open defecation and they live in rural areas. There are places where people do not have access to private or public toilets.
Donate $100 to provide latrines for the needy.
Location: INDIA, AFRICA
Young people in colleges are excited to go on short-term missions, but they lack funds. Nations Cry would like to partner with Inter Collegiate Prayer Fellowship (ICPF) to send deserving candidates to visit a nation for mission work.
Donate: Suggested minimum amount is $250
Location: VARIOUS NATIONS
Nations Cry partners with a credible organization
that assists scattered Jewish families in returning to their homeland-Israel, fulfilling the promise of God. They also help holocaust survivors, Jewish orphans, and families, the poor, the elderly, soldiers and their families, and victims of terror and war.
Donate: The suggested minimum amount is $250/person for Aliyah and $25/ person for charitable and humanitarian help.
Location: ISRAEL
Did you know that these boxes reach children living in the hardest-to-reach places—whether deep jungles, city slums, steep mountainsides, or one of 1,000 remote Pacific islands? Many of these areas are resistant to the Gospel, for cultural or religious reasons, and are home to numerous unreached people groups, some of whom have never heard the Name of Jesus Christ. Help supply gifts, toiletries, and school supplies to kids all around the world.
Donate $25 per shoe-box.
Location: VARIOUS NATIONS
Help thousands of believers find a place to worship God. Many local churches in the villages of North India need a good Church building. Provide help for the construction of church buildings and other building projects in underdeveloped and
developing countries.
Kindly provide the local congregation with a place to worship, shelter from harsh weather conditions, and a haven from religious persecution. A future Church building can even be used, as a community center in the village for evangelism and for providing humanitarian help.
Donate to sponsor the cost of building a church in remote villages for $5,000 or donate any amount above $150.
Location: ASIA, AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
Help purchase/donate toys and toiletries to underprivileged children in the villages of parts of the world.
Location: ASIA, AFRICA and MIDDLE EAST
Help donate dairy animals and provide training to the impoverished families of the nations to generate stable income and livelihood, and also pay for veterinary services. Income from selling animals can be used by struggling families to buy food, clothes, and other essentials.
Donate: You can donate oxen and plough ($500) goats, chickens, donkeys, and cows. rates for cows $450, chickens -$5, goats $25.
Location: ASIA, AFRICA
MIDDLE EAST
You can help equip village missionaries to be more effective by providing
ministry tools like films/projectors, electricity generators, video projectors, bicycles, scooters, bull horns, kerosene lanterns, etc.
Location: ASIA, AFRICA,
MIDDLE-EAST
Nations Cry partners with an organization that plants trees in various regions in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific. Planting tress helps in the sustenance of endangered species of animals, increases air quality, and sustains livelihoods of people(275 million Indians depend on the country’s forests). Mining, trade, agriculture, and urbanization have impacted the forests of India to a decline of 40% of its natural forest cover in the last 95 years.
Donate $1/tree to save wildlife, and reinforce soil
Location: Various Nations
Nations Cry partners with Christian musicians who are looking for sponsors to cover expenses for music lessons for beginners, producing Christian worship music, music videos, etc.
Location: INDIA
Help kids and youth have a wonderful time by distracting them from gangs, drugs, violence, and sex. Sports and Games unite people of all ages to a common ground where the Gospel is shared with them during training and games.
Location: INDIA + other Nations
Help purchase school/college supplies and backpacks for children who cannot afford them. Nations Cry can help organize back-to-school supplies drive and distribute the supplies in your name. Donate $10 per school bag in the USA.
Location: USA + other Nations
Provide help to deserving missionaries and pastors who
regularly travel on foot, and on local buses to evangelize and lead services in the
remote villages of underdeveloped and developing countries.
Donate: Your donation can help provide bicycles (USD 50), motorcycles (USD 1000) or cars (USD 5000-5500). Please call us if you have any questions.
Location: Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Donate to cover the International costs for airfare travels for Nations Cry.
Location: ASIA, AFRICA, and the MIDDLE EAST
As a start-up non-profit, we have many immediate needs
that we urgently have to meet. We ask you to contribute and support the ministry to meet our fundraising, and administrative expenses.
Location: ARUNACHAL
PRADESH, INDIA
500 blankets to our brothers and sisters in Christ who have been forced to leave their homes due to extreme persecution and are now living in the forests in extreme cold.
Donate: Each blanket costs $8-10, $50 provides 5 blankets, and $100 provides 10 blankets.
Location: INDIA + other nations.