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Elpis Action is development ministry of Elpis
Foundation. This program targets families that will, with a bit of help and
coaching from Elpis, soon be able to help themselves. In a short time we hope to
see them able to care for their own families and begin to help others. Medical
Care: This summer a medical kit was given to nurse in the
little Agriculture:
Two years ago we began to help a family of ten. Ioan Rus, the father, is unable
to work because of severe asthma. At first, we provided new shoes and a heating
system for their home – winter was coming on. The next summer we gave them a tiller and a small one-wheeled plow. That winter, the father was able to build a small cart to be pulled by the plow.
This year, at planting time, the older children used the tiller to prepare the land, then as one boy drove the plow, the younger children in the cart handed seed potatoes to the other children who planted them. The method worked so well that the neighbors were soon asking the Rus family to plant their crops as well.
One of the Rus boys demonstrates the use of the cart.
Economics:
The engineer’s drawing below illustrates our desire to
produce a similar plow
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