Program areas at SIFAT
North america (united states program) the u.s. campus provides educational programs for youth, college and university students, missionaries, church and community development workers through various workshops and retreats. These programs are targeted towards mission awareness, educating and empowering people to meet their basic needs using knowledge of public health techniques, agrculture, Appropriate technologies and community development. We also sponsor an outdoor worship service on lake wedowee each sunday from memorial day through labor day.
Africa-in uganda, we are helping with scholorships for our orphans that have graduated from a sifat team built high school to continue their education in trade school or university. Through sponsors, sifat helps fund food and supplies for the orphanage. In other african countries we have funded or supported several sifat graduate projects as follows: a dragon fruit project with electric fence in uganda and an intern mentoring program; a poultry project to help the disabled in kenya; and in nigeria sifat funded a microenterprise poultry project and provided funds for a security fence around an elementary school project.
South america (ecuador program) - we are sponsoring work teams from churches and universities to assist our ecuadorian sifat graduates in building facilities that allow their churches to have after-school programs for needy children in and around quito. In addition, we are providing medical work teams which cover health monitoring and medical care for primarily at-risk women and children. In addition, we sponsor small sustainable projects for our eduadorian sifat graduates.
Central america (costa rica training program) provides educational programs for college and university students, missionaries, church and community development workers through various workshops and conferences. These programs are targeted toward educating and empowering people to meet their basic human needs using knowledge of public health techniques, agriculture, Appropriate technologies and community development. South america (bolivia program) we sponsor work teams from universities to assist our bolivian sifat graduates in construction of micro-irrigation systems for villages in the chaupirana valley in north potosi, bolivia. In addition, we help with medical and dental care, we also sponsor small, sustainable projects, such as water purification, for our bolivia sifat graduate projects in and around quesimpuco, potosi project site.