Relief Networks

ORGANIZATIONAL STATUS

The Relief Network Ministries Inc. (RNM) is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit Christian organization incorporated in the State of Texas in April 2001.

"...I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me..."

- Matthew 25:35-36.

Be a Relief Ambassador for Christ  - 2 Cor. 5:20

Mission & Objectives

RNM is committed to addressing the need to remove conditions that lead to abject poverty, disease and ill health, especially among children and women; inadequate skills leading to low productivity & development in targeted communities.

The broad strategic mission of RNM is to work through specific faith based community-driven project efforts to meet the needs of impoverished communities particularly in developing countries, rural areas, and some inner cities around the world. Using the door of physical relief to bring hope & comfort to the needy, our ultimate mission therefore is to touch lives for Christ & eternity.

ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS

Relief Network Ministries targets the socio-economic problems associated with family & human sufferings, especially in 3^rd world countries and our inner cities.

RNM focuses on ways to alleviate the adverse consequences of poverty and illiteracy, such as poor hygienic standards and inadequate skills for gainful employment. Often the poor find themselves in places with unsanitary drinking water or portable domestic water, especially in Africa rural communities & parts of the 3^rd world. RNM further seeks to mobilize community support by development initiatives such as drilling and maintaining water wells, providing job skill training sessions especially in computer technology, and deploying our diagnostic medical tool called TROPIX-MD in rural Clinics and Health Care Centers. Galatians 6:10.

"Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them is a dry-as-dust religion."

Relief Network Min., Inc.

ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS

• LIVING WATER International, Inc., Sugarland Texas
• The BISHOP'S Foundation, Owerri & JBM Aba, Nigeria
• Medical Missions Int.'l, Brian TX
• LIFE WATER International, Inc., San Louis Obispo, California.
• Sierra Leone Relief Inc., Seabrook TX.
• Love for the Nations, Pearland, TX.
• Changed Hearts & Lives, Houston, TX.
• Grace Network Min., Portland, OR.

A PROJECTS BASED MINISTRY

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE

• By November of 2003, RNM has drilled 13 water wells with 9 of them successful / functional.
• RNM has trained 6 nationals in Nigeria for water well drilling in partnership with Living Water International, Inc (LWI) on using the LS-200 to drill domestic wells.
• RNM also furnished the LS-200 rig to it's Local Organizing Committee team at the Bishop's Foundation under the Anglican Dioceses of Owerri with the assistance of LWI, Inc.
• Other training includes V-TEN computer technology skills in Nigeria, Houston Texas, and Aba Nigeria.
• RNM has furnished 25 computers for V-TEN programs to two groups in Ghana; 7 PC's to 2 agencies in Nigeria, and 4 PCs to 3 other groups in the USA.
• With the assistance of Medical Missions Int'l, we have also done 4 major medical outreaches benefiting about 2000 cases or patients in Africa.

RNM has the following specific goals:

1. Develop a minimum of 50 water wells over the next 3-5 years in the 3^rd World countries of interest to improve health & sanitation in these populations.
2. Provide skills acquisition / transfer training sessions to natives in appropriate technology using our V-TEN (Vocational Technical Education Network) concept approach for adult education. This includes the sharing of our curriculum & provision of support for small V-TEN Computer Technology & Skills acquisition centers within local churches or community groups requesting our assistance.
3. Provide 10-20 basic health care and medical reference support systems using Laptop based TROPIX diagnostic & therapy tool to rural Clinics & Health Care Centers in 2-3 years.
4. Develop a network of project volunteers for various skills transfer programs.
5. Enlist some qualified professional volunteers to provide help / counseling to drug addicts, alcohol abusers, and battered women / teenagers who seek our Bible faith-based approach to restoration of a life worth living, good habits & true happiness.
6. Facilitate the introduction & use of Portable Toilets in urban/semi-urban public centers such as motor parks, open Markets and at events to reduce associated health hazard posed by indiscriminate urination and defecation.

VOLUNTEERS (Relief Ambassador Corps)

Volunteers are sought in many areas of skills and experience / background. These include: qualified technicians, mechanics, medical doctors, nurses, computer specialists, geologists, hydrologists, drillers, plumbers, welders, teachers, painter, etc.

This goal will also help the community cultivate a culture of decency & restore dignity to adults, especially to women, while teaching children good public manners. The second phase will see RNM hygienists teaching the rural dwellers how to construct & make good use of their own ventilated toilet systems.

WHAT YOU CAN DONATE

• Water well to serve 500-600 people - $3000 (Assume a well depth of 150 ft).

• Hydro pump (foot hydraulic) - $1300

• A truck, or PC/Laptop in reasonable condition

• Hand pump (manual bush) - $600

• Piping, casing & plumbing for a well - $300

• Provision of Sand filtration unit - $1000

• Provision of 2 liter Water purification bottles with ionization filters - $35
   

To Donate, Volunteer or become a Life Partner - contact us at:

A Partner contributes often to help in Strategic International Relief effort - prays always for RNM & help us find other sponsors.

Selected countries of interest include:

Nigeria, Cote d'Voire, Tanzania, Kenya, Botswana / Republic of South Africa, Ghana, Gabon, Philippines, Indonesia, Costa Rica, and Sri Lanka.

Since RNM is a project-base organization, volunteer teams with interest in specific countries are formed each year around projects already in progress or targeted for any of these countries.

Relief Network Board of Directors

• A. Sunny Okorie, Ph.D. (President/Gen. Manager),
• Samson Otuwa, MD (Treasurer),
• Gab Anoruigwe - Secretary,
• Rev. Ogechi F. Ochi-Okorie (Publicity Director),
• Meriel Bernhard (Volunteer Director),
• Norma Kates (Patron & Partners),
•  Larry Garza, D.D. - Mentor,
• Rev. Yemi Ayodele (Africa Regional Director).