Abundant Life Care Ministries (ALC), founded in 2001, grew out of the need to find help for the ever-increasing number of unwanted or improperly cared for children in India. ALC is comprised mainly of volunteers that assist in reaching, training, rescuing and the placement of unwanted or improperly cared for children throughout South India and Asia. They participate in training workers to reach out to these poor children in the slum and villages of India.

Additionally, a great deal of ALC's efforts are directed at educating the public and the church at large about the needs of these poor neglected kids and the difficulties of living in below poverty situations. ALC's goal is to rescue these children from the effects of poverty and to educate their families, the church and the community people, causing the cycle to end.

  Lee & Praveena would hear
  about children who were in
  very needy, tragic
  situations and needed a
  better place to stay. They
  wanted to help and prayed
  about starting a home for
  children. With the help of a
  local pastor in the village
  of Utnoor, they started a
  boys’ home in August
  2004. They prayed for a
  way to help needy girls
  also, especially after the
  tsunami on December 26,
  2004. In early 2007, a
  church in California joined with them to build a girls’ home. In July 2007, the pastor who had been caring for the boys received a promotion in a ministry that he had been serving with for a long time and needed to relocate. That August, the boys’ home moved from Utnoor to Hyderabad. The boys are currently in a temporary building at the same location as the girls’ home. Although they have different “houseparents” the boys and girls share meals, devotions and many other events - creating the ALC Children’s Home. The ultimate goal is to build a second story on the girls’ dorm with a separate entrance to provide better sleeping facilities for the boys.

Lee & Praveena Ruud have been friends of SEAPC for over 10 years, with David Whitney serving as a Board Member for both ministries.

You can help one of these children through Raising Kids
for $40/month.

India, situated in South Asia, bordered by the Arabian Sea, Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar (Burma), Bangladesh and the Bay of Bengal, is a federal republic led by President Pratibha Patil since July, 2007. The population consists of many ethnic groups including Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Mongoloid and others. Although the main language is Hindi, there are 14 other official languages (Bengali, Telugu, Marathi, Tamil, Urdu, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada, Oriya, Punhabi, Assamese, Kashmiri, Sindhi and Sanskrit). Hinduism (80.5%) is the main religion, but Islam (13.4%), Christianity (2.3%), Sikh (1.8%) and others are present.

The average age is approximately 25 years old with an infant mortality rate of approximately .03%. The most common diseases are bacterial diarrhea (from unclean water or food), hepatitis A & E, typhoid, chikungunya, dengue fever, Japanese Encephalitis, malaria, rabies,
leptospirosis and bird flu.

The main industries are agriculture, handicrafts, textiles, chemicals, food processing, steel, transportation equipment, cement, mining, petroleum, machinery, and services. Although agriculture accounts for approximately 60% of the work force, services accounts for more than half of India’s output. One of the most common service industries is software services. The average income is $2,800 per year, but approximately 25% of the population live below the poverty level.

India is the world’s largest producer of opium and a source, destination and transit country for human trafficking. Men, women and children are trafficked to serve as slave labor, sexual exploitation and forced marriage. Internal forced labor is said to possibly constitute India’s largest trafficking problem.

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