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Hope Cards

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Hope Cards

What do you do if you live in a slum, have small children, and your husband leaves you? He doesn’t give any financial support, and you can’t get a job because you never finished grade 7. Even if you could get a job, who would look after your children? If you send them upcountry to the grandparents, it means you will only see them maybe once or twice a year. You certainly can’t afford a babysitter.

That’s when Hope Cards steps in. It is no accident they’re called “Hope Cards”. They’re called that because that is what they are. A place of hope. A place of caring.

Real L.I.F.E. Story

Stingy. That was the word La used to describe her husband when she first applied to make cards at Hope Cards.  Others would have called him much worse.

Though La was heavily pregnant with her second child when she began at Hope Cards, her husband would hardly give anything to support his family. He worked as a bartender in Bangkok’s infamous red-light district so his wage was good. Yet it was La would had to pay for almost everything. For 4 years, La has worked at Hope Cards, a steady, smiling lady who obviously dotes on her two children. This year, her already precarious family situation got worse. Her husband left her, heading north to buy a guesthouse. Once there, he discovered he didn’t have enough money. So he came back to visit La and his children, but not to care for them. Instead, he stole La’s meager savings and headed back north. When she called him asking for the money back, he told her ‘what was hers, was his’, and demanding she give him more money (inferring she should become a bargirl/prostitute to do so). Could the situation get worse? Yep. La’s daughter broke her arm at school. Desperate, she called her husband, begging for his help. He came, but was it to help? When he visited his daughter in the hospital, he brought no gift, even a small one. Instead, he took the gifts others had given her. He did say he would stay for awhile, but is that good news or bad news for La?

Hope CardsThe one bright and shining light for La is her ‘family’ at Hope Cards. They are there with her and FOR her no matter what. They’ve cried with her, prayed with her, helped her and they will continue to be there for her in the months to come. She is not alone. She has Hope. That’s La. That’s what L.I.F.E. is all about.

 

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Hope Cards
Box 30
Phrakhanong Post Office
Bangkok 10110
Thailand

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Note: Online donations are NOT tax deductible.

Tax Deductible U.S. Donations

If you wish to support our ministry through tax deductible donations, please send checks payable to "YWAM Montana" to:
"YWAM Montana, 501 Blacktail Rd., Lakeside, MT 59922, U.S.A.".
Please don't write anything else on the check and include a separate note indicating that your donation is for "Project 3688, Hope Cards".

Canadian Donations

If you would like to financially support Hope Cards please send donations through a Canadian Foundation called Hope Mission.


There are two options:

1) By Cheque: send to:

Hope Mission

P.O. Box 953

Edmonton, AB

T5J 2L8 Canada

(Include a letter saying it is for Hope Cards 
or an Hope Cards staff person)
2) Online by credit card:

Click on the link below.
Online Donation

Under "Fund/Designation" - choose Project L.I.F.E. 
In the instruction box, type Hope Cards, or specific
 Project L.I.F.E. ministry or PLF staff person.

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