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The Problem: Cycle of Hopelessness Pakistan, the sixth most populous country in the world, borders India, China, Afghanistan, Iran, and the Arabian Sea. Due in large part to a lack of education and a low average family income, approximately 3.6 million children under the age of 14 work, mostly in exploitative and hazardous labor. The official literacy rate in Pakistan is listed as 50 percent; however, 63 percent of males are literate while only 36 percent of women can read and write. The primary school attendance rate for males is 62 percent and 11 percent lower for females. That figure drops to 23 percent and 18 percent, respectively, by the time children reach secondary school age. Pakistani children face poor access to education and health facilities. Nearly 38 percent of children under age 5 are critically underweight. Solution Generation of Transformation Outreach Initiative The Hope Movement Pakistan Initiative has a vision to form a generation of transformation breaking the cycle of poverty, discrimination, violence, and hopelessness through social and spiritual Evangelism, Development & Relief of marginalized and impoverished communities. God has chosen to have us work with Him to bring justice to victims of oppression, for we are His hands. The truth is that He calls all people to seek justice for the abused and suffering in our world. God’s people often do not understand that social work goes hand and hand with spiritual outreach. You can’t have one without the other. Jesus always combined social and spiritual outreach together. He would not only preach to the people about spiritual salvation but he would feed the hungry, heal their bodies, and pull them out of the life of prostitution, addiction, and oppression. Reaching out to people to only help them spiritually is like seeing a person drowning in the ocean. You are standing on the shoreline with a life raft, and you say to them here is your salvation now come to me, and I will give you the life raft and you will be saved. God’s people often watch people drowning in hopelessness and they stand in the distance of their comfort zone saying I know you’re hurting, here is your salvation, Jesus; all you have to do is come to us, or we tell them about what can save them, Jesus, but we leave them in their social situation and wonder why that person could not maintain their walk with God. They could not because we informed them about salvation, but abandoned them in the crack house, the brothel, the street, the abusive marriage, or the poverty consumed life. We rescued them spiritually but did nothing to help them socially, creating a never ending cycle of hopelessness. The moment we change our mentality and methods is the moment when we will see a world transformed.
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