We seek to serve people in need through the relationships teams have developed over the years. As a result our project leaders always have someone to connect with in any part of the country. These networks mean we can obtain grass roots information.
We work from the bottom up not the top down. For example, when one Christian village was almost razed to the ground, we discovered survivors, especially the elderly, desperately needed fans to keep them cool. There were no longer any buildings to shade them. Other aid agencies were delivering food, but top down policies defining what items were ‘aid’ meant they could not deliver vital items such as these. In other crises, families simply needed small amounts of cash, others needed calor gas stoves to cook and keep warm.
We support self sufficiency. We do this through providing key items such a sewing machines, or buy supporting the education of young people.
We support teams demonstrating godly unity and compassion. The teams, often comprised of DTS graduates, pray for traumatised victims, comfort them and take time to empathize and listen. Sometimes that is the best Rapid Relief they can deliver, especially for victims in neglected areas who feel isolated and overlooked.
We seek out the most marginalised. Jesus was always profoundly interested in widows, orphans and the ‘strangers’ in the midst of any society. These are groups with no-one else to care for them. Our teams actively seek them out. During the Sindh flood relief the Army helped us locate and supply neglected groups of widows and children huddled under trees, surrounded by flood waters.
