Project Opportunities from Flutemaker Ministries for 2011

Mission - Break the cycle of poverty. Feed, educate, house and care for the Kids of Cascabel. Make the children's home self sufficient through micro businesses presently in place. Until they are developed we seek to support the Kids of Cascabel.

FOOD: Flutemaker Ministries monthly donations are currently insufficient to cover the costs for food. For that reason the ministry seeks your help. Would you consider giving a monthly "Grace Gift" of $25.00 that goes exclusively toward feeding a child in Cascabel Nicaragua? You can donate at the top left in the food box. These gifts are the most important thing that we can do in Cascabel.

The Big House is a 2 story home on the property that will house children in need of rescue. We are raising money for the doors and windows, kitchen pantree, bathrooms, paint and carpentry needs of the house. November 2011 the tile floor goes in, the the balcony will be worked on, a small bridge finished and electricity will be connected.

If you would like to help, y ou can donate at the top left in the House box.

More Needs in Cascabel...

1) Electric Transformer: aprox. $4350 . We only get 80 watts now and need more electricity to run the well pump to share water with neighbors and to better to run the whole place. DONE!

2) Cost to set up irrigation of Cascabel plants and crops with new well $2808.72

3) Computer for kids $600 DONE!

4) 2 bus tires $400

5) Transmission and engine for bus $1,500

6) Cost to buy 24 acres of farmland for foundation to farm $42,000

7) Finish big bridge $2,100

8) Play area fence $1,500

9) Paint the house $2,080

10) Security Fence $2,943

11) Build a playground aprox $6,543

12) Invest in Restaurant Micro Business $1,550

13) Retaining wall to hold back the mountain from the house. $2,800

14) 2012 Cost to rent, plant and fertilize 12 acres of corn and beans $2,148

15) Toilets in Big House 3,905

The home now owns a small grocery store, sells honey, plants, makes table cloths and school uniforms, has a juice bar, farms beans and corn and is growing mangos, papaya and bananas. I believe micro businesses are a way to end poverty.

Projects other than Cascabel:

Samaritan's International wants to feed 100,000 children every day in Nicaragua. Pastor Carlos has recently established feeding centers from the Moskito Coast on the Atlantic side where there is much hunger and poverty to the pacific coast and in between. To move the food from Managua to Somoto cost $180 per month. To move the food from Somoto to the North, Central and Southern Moskito Coast cost $300 We need help with this.

Pastor Carlos is now in charge of 698 places of food distribution in Nicaragua. Some are feeding centers, churches and poor families along the way feeding aprox. 20,000 children whith the rice- soya- vege mix given by Samaritan's Int.