Bob & Cindy 2022

$388 from 2021 account

$10,000 donated for 2022

$10,388 in account on January 1

$22 for Falmata Dauda - orphan girl in Nigeria. Age: 12 - She lost her parents to the Boko Haram insurgency, and was taken by relatives to an Islamic center in Maiduguri. She sleeps in the street - we gave her funds for a blanket, Vaseline to prevent chapped skin in the cold windy winter, a mosquito net, and food.

$52 to Inna Idris - Orphan Girl in NIgeria. Age: 11 - She lost her parents to the Boko Haram insurgency. She sleeps in the street - she needs a blanket, Vaseline to prevent chapped skin in the cold windy winter, a mosquito net, and food.

$36 to Ummi Abubakar, orphan girl in Nigeria. Age: 10 - She lost her parents to the Boko Haram insurgency when she was 3 years old. She was then taken by relatives to an Islamic center in Maiduguri. She sleeps in the street - she needs a blanket, Vaseline to prevent chapped skin in the cold windy winter, a mosquito net, and food.

$85 for Sanitary Pads for 30 girls at Shikshit Bharat School in village near Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

$8 for ShelterMi Safe House for Dora Nalwonga from Mpigi.

She Needs housing and surgery for her Burned face. She says:

My name is Dora Nalwonga, aged 30 years. I got married in 2017 and have two children, 2 and 4 years old. My matrimonial home was in Katende parish, Kiringenti sub-county, North Mawokota county, Mpigi district.

In April 2021, I joined a women’s group known as Mothers Living with HIV, which runs a project for rearing chicken in Katende. After three months, I received 50 broilers to rear, sale and pay back the value to the group. In August 2021, I sold off the stock for US$ 561, and paid back US$ 50 to the group having incurred US$ 200 on feeds and medication. The profit of US$ 301 was to enable me to buy more chicken and give another member of the group to rear, sale and pay back; however, this did not happen.

My husband insisted that since he had paid my bride price, he was entitled to the money and everything that I would work for. My request to invest the money in the chicken project was declined. He insisted on buying a second-hand motorcycle with the money to use it as a taxi. I refused to give him the money.

At around mid-day on the 15th August, 2021, my husband came back home drunk, and pushed me into the frying pan where I was cooking buns to sell. I fell face first into the hot oil, and was rescued by neighbor who heard me screaming. I was admitted and later discharged to continue treatment from home. Upon reaching home, I found another woman with her child. All my clothes had been burned. I learned that my children were staying with my mother-in-law. My husband chased me from the home, bought the motorcycle and married the woman.

It is in this background that I am seeking funding for medication, meals, accommodation and personal effects at the ShelterMi Uganda for one month.

Duration for shelter: 2½ months

$10 for ShelterMi (Safe House) for Kisakye Babra, From: Maya, Wakiso district. She says:

My name is Kisakye Babra, aged 45 years. I got married in 2010 and have no child. My matrimonial home was in Maya trading centre, Maya sub-county, Nsangi county, Wakiso district.

In 2012, my husband started a bar and restaurant business, at the Trading centre along Kampala-Masaka road. Out of the business, we managed to buy land and build one room residential houses. Both the bar and restaurant business and the residential houses were registered in his names. Although his family members wanted him to marry a young lady to produce him children, he refused.

In October this year, my husband sustained fatal injuries from a road accident which he succumb to. He was on his way back from a business trip in Busia, Kenya where he had gone to establish an Agribusiness dealing in grains. He was buried at his parents’ home in Kayunga district. After the burial, my in-laws, came and chased me from our matrimonial since I had no child and took over the business and the residential houses. Our marriage was not registered under the any law and therefore I cannot claim any property we acquired during our stay together except on equitable grounds.

It is in this background that I am seeking funding for meals, accommodation, medication for High Blood Pressure, clothes and sanitary requirements as a woman at the ShelterMi Uganda.

$15 for ShelterMi (Safe House) for Nansasi Gorret from Nakabiso village, Kavule-Katende parish, Mawookota North County, Mpigi district, Uganda. She says:

I am Nansasi Gorret, aged 36 years old, residing at Nakabiso. I have been married to Tumwebaze Ivan aged 30 years for the last five years. We have two children, one from my first marriage and two for Ivan, the last born died due to umbilici code strangulation in November 12, 2021.

My husband was a motor vehicle mechanic, operating a garage in Katwe, along Kampala-Masaka highway. We opened a fast-food restaurant at Kavule Trading Centre. However, the Covid 19 restrictions imposed by the Ministry of Health, adversely affected both my husband’s work and the restaurant the business. He lost the garage due to accumulated unpaid debts for motor vehicle spare parts supplied, and returned home. Ivan soon begun to drink the local alcoholic brew, waragi, and became abuse and violent whenever I failed to give him food.

At 8 months of pregnancy, whenever I declined to offer him sex, he would abuse and beat me; accusing me of infidelity and vowing to kill the baby. I reported the matter to the Village Women Councilor who took me to the ShelterMi Safe House.

I am seeking funding to cater for accommodation, meals, treatment and medication.

Duration for shelter: 2½ months

$50 to Akanksha Pandey, Science teacher Shikshit Bharat School in Uttar Pradesh.

She says: I am Akanksha Pandey, a humanist, rationalist, atheist social worker in a small village of Uttar Pradesh. I am the director at Shikshit Bharat School, and I am also the teacher of Science. As a humanist, I work to help teach the poor Dalits (untouchable). My qualification is a Master's in English literature, and I also have a degree in Elementary Education. My father started this work, providing free education to needy children from 2005. The modern era is the Science Age, which has blessed us with many comforts, it has made our lives easier, helped us organize our daily activities, and helps us work more efficiently. Science is the greatest gift to humanity. As a humanist, I believe rational thinking provides the only source of both knowledge and a moral code. I reject the idea of knowledge revealed to human beings by god's or in special books. Humanism considers the welfare of humanity, not the rather the welfare of an imaginary god or gods.

$50 to Shivangi Kumari - she teaches SOcial Studies at Sikshit Bharat school. 

She says: My aim as a teacher is not only bookish knowledge; I also want to give the students practical knowledge they can use as they face critical situations in their life. Social Studies helps students gain analytical and reasoning skills. It is divided into three categories: Geography, History and Economics. *Geography helps us to understand the basic physical system we live in. *History helps us develop an understanding of the world; it inspires us and urges us to learn from mistakes. *Economics helps us understand the financial world and how it really works. I lost my father when I was 2 years. After his death, my family was poor. We had no source of income because my mother is a housewife and not well educated. There is also discrimination in our village due to caste, gender, and religion, and there is lack of support for girl's education. I want to end these curses. At Shikshit Bharat school, I teach orphans, Dalits, and marginalized students. My favorite part of humanism is that it opposes discrimination and oppression.

$50 to Poonam - she teaches the Hindi language and Arts at Shikshit Bharat school.

I was married very young so I suffered and I know the problems of early marriage. My father also died when I was one year old; my widow mother suffered a lot with me and my two sisters. I know the disadvantages of not getting a proper education and I am dedicated to teaching poor girls. I strongly believe every person must be treated equally. I believe that religious education and training is an oppressive practice. I teach the many forms of Hindi literature: poetry, prose, essays, and novels. I help my students develop their learning, speaking, reading, and writing - the four wheels of learning. I am also the Art teacher - training students in arts and vocational crafts - like sewing.

$152 to Rwenzori General Concern for Vegetable Farm (Tomatoes, Cabbages, Onions). Tools are $70, Seeds are $80, Preparation of the land is $150. Estimated profit is $70/month.

$30 for medical supplies to Karen and Karenni ethnic group in Myanmar refugee camp. They are hiding in the jungle from the violence of the military junta in the nation’s civil war.

$98 for Adebowale Victor Mayowa in Adura, Nigeria. He is a “stranded humanist” with hepatitis - he needs the funds to purchase medications.

$232 to Kabughobe Humanists in Uganda for Salt Project

$50 to three abandoned boy in Abuja, NIgeria, who sleep in the street and beg for food. The money will buy them food.

January Total Expenses : $943

$9,445 — Remains in Account

$126 to Bangladesh for Rafia Begum. Her husband is disabled. She is going to make and sell paper flowers - a traditional item of this country. She needs funding to buy materials.

$71 to Katunura Humanists in Uganda for Watermelon Project

$126 to Nazma Bibi - she is a widow and her son refuses to take care of her. She will sell street food and snacks.

$100 to Ntoroko HUmanists for Wholesale Grain & Seed Business

$254 to Nepal Orphanage to provide 14 orphans in Kathmandu with food, warm clothes, and school supplies.

$133 to Top Care Humanist Nursery School in Uganda. It is in a small village next to Rwenzori National Park, it has 150 children, many are orphans or half-orphans because their parents died of HIV/AIDS, or they were killed for poaching, or they were massacred or imprisoned by the Ugandan Military for their involvement in the Bakonzo civil war, protecting their king. Funds will be spent on food and school supplies like books, pencils, and notebooks.

$267 to orphans at Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School near Jinja, Uganda. The funds will pay for orphans’ tuition, school supplies, school uniform, books, and school lunch, plus it will provide their guardians with general funds to feed and clothe them.

$151 to Combat Parasitic Worm Infections at Refugee Camp in Benue State, Nigeria. Funds are for education presentation, medicine, and sterilization of Toilet facilities. IDP camp has 800-1,000 people in it, most are women of reproductive age, elderly women, and children. four volunteer medics will provide the service.

 $1,228 spent in February

$8,217 - balance on March 1

$68 to Nepal - warm clothes (sweaters, t-shirts, trousers) for orphans in Radha Krishna Ghansyam School - Located in a rural area outside of Kathmandu

$17 to Safe House in Mawlamyine, Myanmar to provide Food, Medicine, and Hygiene Supplies to victims of Domestic Violence

$182 to pay tuition for 8 orphans at Top Care Nursery School near Rwenzori National Park in Uganda. The orphans’ parents died of accidents, HIV/AIDS, “killed while poaching”, and some died in the BaKonzo King’s battle against the Ugandan Army.

$152 to “Whisper a Dream Foundation” in Zambia, to deliver 50 sanitary pads to girls in baluba village and provide a training workshop on how to make the pads.

$100 to teach 14 orphans in Kathmandu how to make Momos (Dumplings). The orphans will also be taught business skills and guided to sell their Momos at street markets.

March Total - $619

Still Left in the Account - $7,598

April Funding

$12 for Dhaka Orphanage in Bangladesh. It has 80 children, 36 boys and 44 girls. The Funds provided School Shoes and Books. The children are either orphans, or they were abandoned because their parents were either Dead, or poor, or they separated and neither wanted the child.

$101 sent to Kabughobe Humanists in Uganda, for their Salt Project (this was previously funded, and they sent in a very good report, so we are continuing support)

$101 for school fees for Abdulahi Muhammad (3 years old) and Abdulahi Saratu (8 years old) in Minna (Saliu Olumide Saheed is their benefactor). They need tuition money to attend Abdulahi Dada Primary School in Minna, Nigeria. Their father died two years ago and their mother is a poor subsistence farmer.

$139 to children in Kolkata slums who need funds for school Tuition, Books, and supplies (Below)

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$68 to Amina Umar (Below)- widow in Al-Amin Dagash refugee camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Her husband was killed by Boko Haram terrorists 9 years ago. She is 46 years old and has 5 children. She needs the money for cancer surgery - her womb has to be removed.

Total spent in April - $421

$7,177 still left in the account

$113 to Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School for Food - $61 for Corn Meal (Posho) and $52 for Beans

$54 to this orphan in Mpigi, Uganda. She says: “I am Nalyonga Vanessa, aged 14 years, studying at Peas Samling Nama High School, in Form 1. I am an orphan, having lost my mother at birth and my father in Somalia, where he was working as a peacekeeper. My paternal uncle abandoned me after receiving compensation for my father’s death. This led me to dig for people to raise part of my school fees. Last term, I manage to get 85% in all subjects taught at school. I want to be a nurse when I complete my education in order to help poor women and children.”

$75 to this orphan in Mpigi, Uganda, He says: “I am Namirembe Scovia, aged 08 years, studying at Creamland Academy Nursery and Primary, Day and Boarding School in elementary Class 3. I lost my both parents due to HIV/AIDS. All our relatives consider my sister and I as a curse in the family because of our parents died of HIV/AIDS. I want to be a doctor when I grow up. Last term, I was the second best pupil in my class. Due to lack for fees and school requirements, the school authorities will not allow me to continue with my education.”

$79 to Aditya Arjun (Age 5) an orphan in Nepal at Pabitra Sewa Samaj Orphanage A man and girl met through Facebook, the guy from Kathmandu and the girl from rural Nepal. The girl got pregnant and the man left the girl to get mentally unstable. She gave birth to the baby on streets and the baby were rescued by the orphanage. Aditya studies at Madan Ashrit Basic School in Kindergarten. Her favorite subject is English.

$45 to Anamikal(Age 7) an orphan in Nepal at Pabitra Sewa Samaj Orphanage. She was found in a plastic bag in the garbage on the roadside. The bag was torn and a man saw a leg sticking out from the plastic and informed the police that a dead body was there but the child was surprisingly alive and was rescued by the orphanage. Anamika studies at Madan Ashrit Basic School in grade 1 and her favorite subject is Nepali. Her hobby is dancing and she dances very well. Her aim is to be a social worker and help needy people.

$64 to Andaz (Age 8) an orphan in Nepal at Pabitra Sewa Samaj Orphanage. He was rescued by the orphanage when he was 1 year old. He was found in a garbage bag by a women when she was out to buy groceries. He is physically impaired with one eye. He studies in grade 2 at Madan Ashrit Basic School. His favorite subject is mathematics.

$94 to Anjal (Age 14) an orphan in Nepal at Pabitra Sewa Samaj Orphanage. She was 5 years old when rescued by police, she was raped by a old man of her village and then disowned by her relatives and the villagers. She was rescued by the orphanage later. She studies in class 9 at Shree Ganesh Higher Secondary School in Kathmandu. Her favorite subject is Mathematics. Her hobby is dancing and aims to be a social worker when she grows up.

$94 to Abhilasha (Age 15) an orphan in Nepal at Pabitra Sewa Samaj Orphanage. She studies Science at Lincoln School in grade 11. Her favorite subject is Mathematics. Her hobbies include helping others. She was rescued by the orphanage when she was 1.5 years of age. She was found alone and crying in a jungle and her parents are still unknown. 

$94 to Aditi (Age 14) an orphan in Nepal at Pabritra Sewa Samaj Orphanage. She was rescued by the orphanage and police when she was 2.5 years of age. She was raped by her father and her mother left with another man. She is a student in grade 8 at Shree Ganesh High School, Kathmandu. Her favorite subject is English and her hobbies include dancing and singing.

$94 to Anurodh Rokaya (Age 17) an orphan in Nepal at Pabitra Sewa Samaj Orphanage. He attends Lincoln School in Kathmandu. He is a brilliant student and loves Physics, Chemistry and Math. His hobbies include singing and dancing. His aim is to be a pilot when he grows up. He is an inspiration to all the younger orphans as he helps them with studies. Anurodh’s birthplace is unknown. His mother abandoned him at 3 years of age after his father’s death and was rescued by the orphanage. 

$54 to Esther Oluwafunmilayo in Gada-ko Village, Nigeria - for her Midwife Certification

$30 to India - to fund Rebika Lepcha. Her father passed away when she was young. Her mother is uneducated and poor in health, she is deaf and cannot even speak properly. Now nobody in her family can support her for higher education, and she wants to become a doctor.

Total spent in May - $890

Still Left in the Account - $6,287

June

$255 to provide sanitary pads & menstrual hygiene education to Gada-ko village, Nigeria

$242 to Uganda to help Eagles View Humanist School (near Jinja) set up a Banana Farm

$150 to Tanzania to start a Beetroot Garden, to combat Sickle Cell Anemia. The project will be done by Lucia Mlolwe and the Reform and Hope Association. They will provide free beetjuice to patients in a nearby hospital.

$195 to Top Care Nursery School in Uganda, it is very remote near Rwenzori Mountains National Park, and many of the children are orphans. Funds will purchase 100 kilogram bags of posho (cornmeal) that feeds the children at lunch.

$153 to Towemu Nyimba in Zambia to complete her college education

$165 to Atheist Afghanistan Refugees - Najiba Qanbari and Hosain Ali Mirzaei

They say: “Five months ago we fled Afghanistan and went to Iran because of the Taliban‘s threat towards us because we are not religious. As university students we read books that completely altered our worldviews and thoughts about Islam and Allah. We read books by Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Charles Darwin, Daniel Dennett, Yuval Noah Harari, and Steven Pinker. After reading these books we denounced Islam as barbaric, medieval and irrational, but we did not realize this would be dangerous one day. After the Taliban takeover we were in dire threat of the Taliban, if they knew we were atheists they would execute us.”

$18 to Namanda Lariah a female humanist student with albinism at Isaac Newton High School, where she was given a scholarship. She lost her father dad when she was a baby, and grew up with a single mum and five siblings. She wants to Makerere University (the best college in East Africa) and study Science for a career in either medicine or counseling.

Namanda says, “I would like to be an example to my fellows the so-called Albinos to show that they can also be important people in society even though others think that they can’t.”

$1,178 spent in June

$5,109 left in the account

$151 to Patience Obayomi, a 22 year old widow with a son, in Eikiti State, Nigeria. 

She says: “I married very early and thought I would enjoy my marriage until his demise. After his demise, I have been assaulted by his family as the person who killed him because a herbalist told them during consultation. After the herbalist pronouncement i have been subjected to abuse and all sorts of degrading practices. I have been told to do the superstitious rituals that many Yoruba women do to prove that their husband didn't die from their women's doings and the acts include staying indoors for a long time, shaving off the head and pubic area and restricted diet. I don't want to face these inhumane treatment and trauma. I will be glad if HCG can help me escape this persecution. I am looking to start a new life somewhere safe, I need to get a room of my own, so I can start a new life with my child. I am a humanist because religious laws degrade women and threaten our existence.”

$100 to two orphan girls - Mercy and Mariam - who were severely burned when their drunken father set the house on fire, to kill their mother. The two girls are now at ShelterMi Orphanage

$83 for Hygiene Kits for 14 orphans in Kathmandu, Nepal. Health & hygiene kits include: Sanitary pads (for girls), soap, shampoo, combs, brushes, toothpaste, tooth brushes, fingernail and toenail clippers, razors for shaving (the older boys)

$263 to build a shelter for homeless street boys (called “Almajiri”- they were abandoned by their parents) in Maiduguri, Nigeria. There are 9 million almajiri in northern Nigeria - many become drug addicts or criminals or are trafficked into slavery or join boko haram

$607 spent in July

$4,498 still in the account

$284 for Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School in Uganda - to build a new classroom

$20 Domain Name Renewal (bobpellissier.org)

$104 to Kathmandu, Nepal - to buy clothing for 14 orphans (t-shirts, pants, socks) - this is a project done in collaboration with Atheist Republic Nepal

$10 to Asiimwe Rebecca to stay at ShelterMi Safe House in Uganda

“I am Asiimwe Rebecca, aged 27 years. I meet the man Agaba Innocent at Nakasero market where I worked as a vegetable vendor. Agaba sold chicken. One night, I slept at his place and feared to go home so I gathered courage and informed my aunty that I was going to stay with Agaba.

But there was trouble - Agaba started coming home late drunk and he was a habitual smoker of cannabis. One evening he came home early with a present and he told me his friends were coming for supper. I prepared beef stew and rice and I served the visitors. After eating, they started drinking and smoking cannabis. My husband dragged me to the bathroom and raped me. He then instructed his friends to do the same.

I woke up the next day in a lot of pain. My aunty took me to the hospital. She requested me not to report to the police since Agaba was remorseful and willing to pay medical expenses. I was discharged and went back home. I later realized I conceived out of the rape ordeal. As the pregnancy grew, Agaba started beating and abusing me saying I was a prostitute.

In June 2022, he kicked my stomach so hard I lost consciousness. During pre-natal examination, I was told the child had died and was rotting inside me. I went for an emergency operation and the child was removed. The doctor told me that it would be difficult for me to be pregnant again since much of the uterus was cut off.”

$90 to Gada-ko village, Nigeria, to vaccinate 37 children against Polio, Measles, and Hepatitis. Campaign conducted by HGC partner Saliu Olumide Saheed

$265 for a computer for Shikshit Bharat School in Uttar Pradesh. It is a secular school with a large percentage of Dalit and other marginalized children.

$86 to Nepal, to sponsor education of the orphan Aasha Rai (16), who loves to dance and gives dancing lessons to all the other kids in the orphanage. She has completed her high school and is now preparing for her college entrance exams. She also loves reading books and helping others. She was rescued by Nepal police in a jungle, when she was a year old and handed to the orphanage.

$56 to Nepal to sponsor the orphan Abilasha Rai (16) - who was rescued by local authorities when she was 11 months old. She was found in a bush by the police, and given to the orphanage. She has now completed her high school and is preparing for her college entrance examination. She loves singing and reading books. She also looks after other children who are younger than her in the orphanage.

$86 to Nepal to sponsor the orphan Ashok Nepal (11 years old) He studies in grade 5 at Madan  Ashrit School.  When his parents died, police found him crying at the middle of the road and handed him to the orphanage.  He loves drawing pictures.

$65 to Maugo Humanist Collective in Kenya - to make sisal macrame pot and utensil holders.

$1066 spent in August

$3,432 still in the account

$12 to Nakitto Prossy for ShelterMi Safe House in Mpigi, Uganda

She says “I am Nakitto Prossy, aged 35 years. I have six children. I was married to Kwezi Derrick. Derrick took to heavy drinking after he lost his job during the Covid breakout. I would wash clothes for people to get money to buy food.

Early this year, I met a lady who introduced me to prostitution. Business was good and life changed for the better. I would leave the children with their father drunk and come back home at dawn. In May 2022, I met a client who requested for my services. He wanted sex without wearing a condom. He promised to give me US$20. We eat food and went to a lodge.

After sometime, there was a knock at the door. He opened and three other men walked in. They beat up my client and raped me one after the other. I had to struggle to get home that morning. One month later, I realized that I was pregnant and went for pre-natal care. The doctor told that me that I had contracted HIV/AIDS and was put on antiretroviral drugs. When my husband found out, he beat me and chased me from home. I had nowhere to go but to the streets where I could get some help.

A lady referred me to the SafeHouse.”

$10 Protik Ghosh in Bangladesh - he is a 10 year old boy. His father died 3 years ago due to cancer. He works as a child laborer at a local sweet store belonging to his uncle to get the necessary money to continue his education. He is a bright student.He dreams to be a doctor one day.

$75 for Khadija in Morocco - she is 12 years old. She lives with her mother (who does not have proper documentation) and her six siblings. Their father abandoned them many years ago. The family lives off odd jobs and charity and they frequently change homes because they cannot afford the rent. Khadija likes handicrafts with paper and wool, and athletic races in which she stands out. Her favorite pastime is playing with her friends in the street or in nature. She lives in Melilla - a small city in Northern Africa that is a colony of Spain. Many Moroccans are here as poor undocumented residents. Children who are undocumented in Melilla are vulnerable to dangers in society - it is common for them to end up in prostitution or as drug addicts. Funds will be spent on school supplies.

$75 for Amin - he is 9 years old. He is an orphan and has growth problems due to mistreatment and insufficient nutrition during his first years of life. He lives in the house of his distant uncles. He likes to paint, especially on walls, and his favorite pastimes are being in the fields and playing with animals. He lives in Melilla - a small city in Northern Africa that is a colony of Spain. Many Moroccans are here as poor undocumented residents. Children who are undocumented in Melilla are vulnerable to dangers in society - it is common for them to end up in prostitution or as drug addicts. Funds will be spent on school supplies

$44 for food and medicine for senior care center in a refugee camp. This is a project with Burmese atheists. There are ten seniors in Sagaing region - they have been abandoned by their families due to battles nearby.

$75 for Dina - she is 11 years old. She lives with her mother who does not have Spanish documentation and therefore cannot access a decent job. Dina lives with her six siblings, one of whom is intellectually disabled. The father has a restraining order for mistreatment of the mother and older daughters. She lives in a house with one room and mattresses on the floor. Dina really likes the circus and acrobatics. Her favorite pastime is trying to climb everything that surrounds her. She lives in Melilla - a small city in Northern Africa that is a colony of Spain. Many Moroccans are here as poor undocumented residents. Children who are undocumented in Melilla are vulnerable to dangers in society - it is common for them to end up in prostitution or as drug addicts. Funds will be spent on school supplies.

$189 for free food distribution organized with Burmese Atheists. 300 lunch boxes will be handed out, plus canned food, vitamins, minerals, and medicines - to laborers and their families in the impoverished village of Hlaing Thar Yar

$155 to “I’m Faheem Ryan, I'm a Bangladeshi secular atheist and freedom of speech activist. I’ve been doing my activism for the last 8 years. I run a blog called Bangladeshi Atheist on Instagram. On May 4th I got a text that said 'Ramadan month is over now. Start digging your own grave'. On 26th May a group of people followed me on the road when I was running an errand that day, I managed to escape unharmed. On 2nd June at 9:40 PM two Jihadi intruders banged at my door very hard and they tried to break my lock. They could not break in but they marked my door with a cross mark. I am in shock from these incidents. I don't want to die like this.

On June 6th in the morning I left Bangladesh for India and a new life but I don't have a job to support me. I have been on the run for my life for the last 5 years, I have almost lost everything for being an atheist activist. I am in India on a 90 day visa. I don't have any money right now to survive here.”

$168 for website renewal - Bobpellissier.org

$55 for Fatima Nuzha, Sri Lanka ex-Muslim student - for her college expenses. She ranked #1 in her district on Admission Test

$858 spent in September

$2,574 remains in the account

$21 to CHristine Bandaru to stay at SHelTerMi Safe House.

She says: “Christine Bandaru from Arua district, Northern Uganda

She says, “I am 28 years old. The home of my parents is in Arua district. My parents died in 1998 and I was put in the care of my maternal grandmother in Mpigi district. I got married at the age of 16 years after my grandmother died, to a 54 year old man in Mpigi district. At 18 years, I had my first born child and twins the following year. In 2021, my husband married a second wife, Mary. From the day Mary came to our home, my husband started quarreling over everything I did for him. He would give the dog the food I cooked for him claiming it was poisoned. Later, he started punching me and canning me with an electric wire. The beatings increased and every day he would pound me. In September this year, he came home drunk got his sword and chased me from the home with my children at midnight. My pleas to my co-wife to intervene fell on deaf ears. I went to a neighbor who accommodated us for the night. The next morning I went to report to the area local council chairperson. The chairperson invited my husband and co-wife for a meeting to resolve the matter but both declined to attend. The Chairperson gave me a letter to go to the Child and Family Police unit. My husband was summoned and on appearing at the police station, alleged that I was a prostitute and that the three children are not his. The investigating officer told me to look for money so that my husband and the children would go for a DNA test. I told her that there was no one to help get the money. She referred me to the ShelterMi SafeHouse to seek help. At the SafeHouse after screening, Madam Rose welcomed us. I am seeking for funds for accommodation and food at the ShelterMi SafeHouse.”

$185 to Shelter Mi Orphanage DOrmitory. It has eight orphans. It will be built of timber and iron plates.

$35 to buy Food, Medicine & School supplies for 31 children at Metta Yate Orphanage in Myanmar. The majority of the children are two years old and younger - they have been abandoned by their parents, primarily due to civil war

$27 to Bangladesh, for Gopal Ghosh, an 11-year-old boy who needs funds for school. His dad died in the Covid-19 outbreak. His mom is paralyzed due to her spinal cord injury in a road accident. Gopal now works in a tea stall to earn money to support his family, but it isn’t enough to pay for his school fees.

$32 to Bangladesh for Hia Mondol - an 8-year-old girl who need funding for school. Both of Hia’s parents were killed by a Muslim mob in violence during Durga Pooja (the Hindu Festival). Hia now lives with her grandparents, and they are too poor to pay her educational expenses.

$125 to Shreya Pandey - a Student at Shiksit Bharat School in bandepar Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. She wants to go to college to study engineering & Computer Science - to do this she needs to take special classes to prepare for the entrance examination.

$25 to HGC “secret School” in Herat, Afghanistan - it has 20 students, who will learn Math, Physics, English, and Persian Literature. Do not share these photos online, to protect the students and their parents from the Taliban.

$25 to Tanzania - for orphan Zainab Yahya, aged 11. She lives with her elderly grandmother who is very poor. Zainab needs $50 for 1 pair of shoes, 1 School bag, 1 sweater, 1 skirt, 10 exercise books.

$15 to Kenya - to Clarice Gogo at University of Nairobi for her school fees. She is majoring in Finance, She is also the leader of the Humanist Student Alliance, plus she’s a member of Centre for Inquiry and she’s co-editor of the Humanist Kenya Newsletter.

$45 to Gyannjoti Women’s School in Kathmandu, Nepal. The school is for illiterate older women. Funds will buy school supplies (pens, pencils, notebooks, textbooks) and hygiene supplies (toothpase, toothbrushes, soap, sanitary pads)

$105 to Afghanistan, to provide funds to Ebrahim, an ex-Muslim who was stabbed by the Taliban and seriously wounded. We are sending him funds for his food and rent.

$281 to ShelterMi Safe House & Orphanage to build a 120 foot deep water well. This is needed because the closest ground water 1.5 miles away and the women are harassed if they go there. This donation is part of the $1,100 total budget.

$920 spent in October

$1,654 left in the account

November Expenses

$35 to Apna School in Bihar, India - to provide the poor students (Dalits) in the photo below with a gift bag that contains food, school supplies, and a clay lamp and candles, for them to study by.

$22 to Faridah Nyaigagaa to stay in ShelterMi Safe House in Mpigi, Uganda

She says: “I am aged 35 year. I got married to one Wasswa Moses, a physician by profession. After three years in marriage, I was eager to have a child from my husband. However, Moses was not ready to have a child. After every three months, he would force to get a contraceptive injection in order not to conceive.

In early September 2020, I persuaded the family doctor not to administer the usual dose of injection (contraceptive) without the knowledge of Moses. In March when my husband took me for the usual dose, the family doctor informed him that I was two months pregnant. Although Moses wasn’t happy with the good news, his love for me didn’t change. I gave birth to a boy in the afternoon. When Moses held the baby, I shed tears.

In July 2022, Moses told me we had to go to Ssesse Island in Lake Victoria for a family ritual. We left for the Island. On the first night, there was a huge celebration. The following night we took a boat to a smaller island where a sacrifice was to be performed. Unknown to me, my son was to be sacrificed in order to appease the spirits of my husband’s ancestors and to protect the wealth we had acquired so far. Also I heard a woman scream and I realized my young sister who had accompanied us was nowhere to be found.

I fainted or was drugged and when I woke I found myself in a hospital in Entebbe. I was told fishermen rescued me from water and took me to the hospital. I explained to the nurse what had happened and she reported the matter to the Police. Despite all efforts to apprehend my husband he has continually bribed the police and he is after my life. In August 2022, a friend directed me to the SafeHouse where I currently stay. I fear for my life.

$27 to Kotha Das - 8 year old orphan girl - in Bangladesh. Both her parents died due to a recent storm called Sitrang which occured in Bangladesh. She was at her uncle's house during that time. So luckily she survived. Now she is living at her uncle's house.

$77 to Zambia to support Eco-Products that Reduce Malaria, Cholera, Typhus, Dysentery. Chiza Mtonga is an eco-entrepreneur - she sells energy-saving light-bulbs to kill mosquitos, biodegradable materials to reduce waste, and chlorine to provide clean, safe water.

$190 to Birsa Education Mutual Aid in Jharkhand, India - to provide the Adivasi students with gift bags that contains food, school supplies, and a clay lamp and candles, for them to study by. Adivasi are Tribal People, Indigenous, the Lowest caste in India, Lower than Untouchables. Birsa Education Mutual Aid is women-led, they are cultivating mushrooms to sell, the profit will pay for their children’s educations.

$205 for Kabughobe Humanist Mutual Aid in western Uganda for their coffee project. this is an entrepreneur project that they believe will generate $381/month. This is a women-led group that has successfully completed many HGC projects before.

$35 to Tanzania Mutual Aid Association to purchase a water pump for their Sustainability Garden, that will provide enough income for the Beetroot Initiative Project, that alleviates Sickle Cell Anemia.

$25 for the Trique people in Oaxaca. They were driven out of their villages and off their Corn farms by paramilitary in 2010 - 60 Trique were massacred. Now they’re impoverished, they live in tents in the plaza and sell crafts for meager income.

$150 for Eagle’s View Humanist Primary School near Jinja, Uganda. Funds are to build an administration building on newly-purchased land and to build two latrines.

$35 to Nepal to buy 14 orphans warm wool jackets, caps and scarfs. This project was a partnership with Nepal Association of Secular Humanists.

$200 to Apna School mothers and children in a village in Bihar State, India. they will grow watermelon in the floodplains of the river. Bihar state is the poorest region of India - it’s per capita income is lower than DR Congo. Funds gained from selling the watermelon crop will be used to support the school.

$245 to Sikshit Bharat School in Bandepar Village, Uttar Pradesh, India. Funds are to buy food to provide 1,500 lunches for the poorest 100 students at the school, plus $40 for the cook. Sikshit Bharat School is composed primarily of Dalit (untouchable) students

$1,246 spent in November

$498 remains in the account

$101 to Kyaw Win Aung - a fish (carp) farmer in Yinmarbin, Hnaw Yoe Village. The money will allow him to buy more carp to stock his pond. He will help feed his village, which is in the war zone, with the fish. This is a project with Burmese Atheists.

$90 to Margaret Noles - a 23 year old humanist in eastern Kentucky, i.e., Appalachia. She has autism and social anxiety and is unable to participate in-person college classes due to these disabilities. She is excellent at graphic arts and needs $90 to take online classes to improve her skills. She will provide graphic art services to Humanist Global Charity. Her goal is to earn income to help support her family (a single mother and a younger brother who also has disabilities).

$98 to Nigeria to Ogechi. She is a humanist and a widow with a baby son. She and her baby have HIV and need antiretroviral drugs that they cannot afford. She needs money for medicine, food and to start a business selling fabrics in the marketplace.

$98 to Nigeria to Bello Abdulrazzak - he is a humanist and a newly admitted student to Ekiti State Medical College. He needs money for tuition and textbooks.

$37 to Bangladesh - to Supprity Das, a 9 year old girl. Her father was a Hindu priest in a temple. He was killed last year due to religious violence (a muslim mob). Now she lives with her mother who works as a cleaner of the temple.

$37 to Bangladesh to Rudra Chakraborty, a 12 year old orphan boy. He was abandoned as a child by his parents. He grew up surviving in the streets but has big dreams in the future. He is a street scavenger and earns a living by selling the waste materials collecting from the street.

$37 to Bangladesh for Uttom Roy, a 8 year old boy. His mother died during child birth. Now he works with his father in a tea stall.

$498 Total Spent in December

$0 Left in the account