All that we have been able to accomplish is because of our Loving God and committed Christians like you. Penny and I want to thank you all: our supporters, our Volunteer Teams, and our ever so important, Prayer Warriors. Your care and support is helping us to grow in our faith and in service to our Lord.
Hope for the Children of the Street, (HCS) is a charitable (not-for-profit) organization, legally operating in the USA, and in Brazil. Donations are tax deductible. Please make sure you include your full name and address. You will receive a tax credit letter from HCS at the end of the year. If You would like to Donate to HCS:
Please make your check Payable to:... Hope for the Children of the Street
Please send your Check to:................Hope for the Children of the Street
Address:............................................P.O Box 152, Raymond Ms. 39154
We Thank You... Jack & Penny Oyler
2nd Bathroom & Septic System
The Bath will be connected to the new recreation building and the future phase three boys cabin, and will have urinals, toilets, showers, and wash-sinks. This will drastically help the boys to learn and practice good hygiene.
UPDATE March 2006 The basic structure of the second cabin was built in July 2000, In 2004 because of rot and termites, we tore this original small cabin down and replaced it with a new large recreation building. This building was built by our home church, First Baptist of Raymond.
PRAISE GOD! THIS PAST SUMMER OUR THREE VOLUNTEER TEAMS BUILT AND FINISHED THE FIRST BATH HOUSE AND NEW KITCHEN ADDITION. THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST NEW BATH HAS GREATLY IMPROVED OUR BOY'S LIVING CONDITIONS.
Gift Needed to BUILD THE SECOND of the Baths $2,500.00 US OF COURSE WE WILL ALSO NEED A TEAM TO COMMIT TO BUILD IT.
New Boys cabin. In 2000 our HCS volunteer teams built 2 of the four Boys sleeping cabins we need at the camp. In 2001 they built the third. In 2004 one of the two first cabins was been torn down and rebuilt bigger as a recreation center. We need to build one more in 2006. We plan to build this new cabin about 30 feet to the right of the new recreation center. It to will have an attached bath house. This will create a breezeway between the two cabins. This will service the 12 boys that will occupy the new cabin . This will give us a capacity of 30 boys at our HCS Baptist Boys camp.
gift needed per cabin with bath house; $3500.00 us dollars
Beds and mattresses. 10 each for the new Boys Dormitory. $2,500.00 us dollars
Total for new Boys Cabin $6,000.00
Additional Material that will allow HCS to DRILL much needed Water wells
Until 2001, the boys and the workers all drank river water. As did all who live in our little community. After we drilled our Fresh water well at the HCS camp, things improved greatly. We have made this clean water available to our community. Penny and I hope and pray to be able to buy the materials needed to drill our own water wells. Our community, along with many others scattered along the river would benefit greatly from having their own clean water well. Many babies and children suffer and die simply from drinking river water. The materials needed, are simple 2-2 1/2 inch galvanized pipe, a large water pump for pumping the sludge from the well, drill bits, hoists, and cables. The depth of the well vary from 40 meters to 80 meters .
All of this can be purchased for around $3,000.
Praise God!HCS Boys camp well is Complete and working wonderful!!! Praise God! We now have clean drinking water for our Boys. This well also supplies clean drinking water for our entire community. ( about 30 families) God is good!!
New Hope Baptist Church water well is complete.
Irrigation System
Our garden is in, and producing vegetables. We desperately need to install an irrigation system & large holding tanks, to cut down on the time we need to run the generator. Sunshine is not a problem in equatorial Brazil, but the crops must be watered to survive during the dry season. Our plan is to run a simple piping system from the river to the garden area provided by a diesel generator and pump. (there is no electricity at our land)
Gift needed for the water lines, fittings, holding tanks, and irrigation nozzles Approx: $1,000.00 dollars US.
Boat Dock/Floating Pier
A typical floating dock is made with huge trees that last for about 20 years. Then a deck and even small buildings can be erected on these floating logs. We will also need 10 new small canoes for the boys to use for fishing.
Gift needed for logs, lumber: $1,500.00 us dollars
Gift needed for Canoes:$600.00 us dollars
Plant Shade Houses
Our Gardens are in, but we still need help to make them permanent! We need to buy the plastic UV covering and shade cloth and more wood to support it.
Here in Brazil, we are either getting flooded by over 300 inches of rain in six months, or we are being scorched with 120+ degree heat. This makes growing plants like tomatoes, peppers, squash, onions, carrots, & cucumbers out in the open all but impossible. The rains will wash away everything that is put in cultivated soil. And if the rains do not kill the plants, the burning sun will. The normal way to prevent this from happening is to build open shade/plastic house structures. In the dry season the wooden roof frames are covered with shade cloth. In the rainy season the roof frames are covered with clear plastic. Also all the soil beds need to be raised with 8 to 12 inch wood side frames. The keeps the run off water out of the planting areas. We now have built three 14 foot by 100 foot Plant houses with raised beds. We still need to buy more wood for the roof frames & the raised beds, the UV plastic and shade cloth, along with shovels, wheelbarrows, & rakes, fertilizer, black top soil & cow manure
Gift needed to buy the UV plastic and shade cloth for our 3 Shade House & raised plant bed: $1250.00 dollar
Our Chicken Coop And Live Stock Pens
We need to add live stock so we can reduce our food costs. Chickens, Ducks, goats, pigs, and eventually cows would be wonderful. Most of these structures are just simple pens with a water supply. We want to start with chickens. We can build a good rain proof coop with a fenced yard, and buy the chickens and feed to get started for agift needed $180.00 us dollars.
If you are feeling especially generous..........
Start up costs for all animal pens; posts, wire, nails,
roofing and feed shed. Plus all animals; pigs, chickens, ducks,
turkeys, and goats, and a maybe even a milk cow.
Our FLOATING
Volunteer Camp House needs to be repaired.
I have been a
carpenter all my life, I really enjoy building
and making things. When I work a secular job in
the states, I built homes and commercial
buildings. I especially enjoyed making custom
cabinets from Mahogany, White Oak, Ash ,
Walnut and Cherry. I brought a lot of my
wood tools with me but have never had a place to
use them. Here on the river every day large
boats full of various exotic woods pass our camp
each week. One thing I can teach well is the art
of making furniture, windows, and doors. I found
an old boat motor repair shop and we bought it
in 2000. We replaced 3 of the older
floating trunks, and it has been well used for
the past 5 years. This is where we started New
Hope Baptist Church, and where all the volunteer
teams stay while in country. Since we only
replaced 3 of the eight original logs we now
need to replace the other 20+ year old
logs . The logs sell for around $300.00
each. We also need to replace the flooring
boards on the front and back porch, and plan to
build a second story covered veranda.
Fence post and
wire for property fence.
Our camp is 500m X 150m, we have fenced both sides We really need to complete the back. We will need 150 fence posts. @ 4 dollar each. and 10 rolls of barbed wire @ $46 dollars a roll.
Total gift still needed for wire and remaining posts ;$1,060.00 us dollars
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