MUKTI MISSION

Mukti Mission US provides avenues for our Partners to bring Hope, Healing, and Life for Indian Women and Children at the Pandita Ramabai Mukti Mission (PRMM) in India.

In partnering with people across the US, Mukti Mission US focuses attention on PRMM's purpose to provide a Christ-centered home where destitute women and children, irrespective of their background, are accepted, cared for, transformed, and empowered to be salt and light in the society; thus helping fulfill the Great Commission.

As our Partners engage with Mukti Mission US and PRMM we cultivate support for the mission within the United States of America. This support will directly bring Hope, Healing, and Life for Indian women and children.

Our support will enable the care and training of women at the Mission. Women who come to the Mission are cared for holistically. Care includes food, clothing, shelter, friendships, acceptance, purpose through education both secular and spiritual, micro-enterprise training, full medical and dental, aging care, and ultimately a dignified burial. In supporting this level of care we fulfill James 1:27 (Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. NIV).

In supporting children of India we seek to rescue, empower, educate and train them. The care afforded these children is holistic even as the women are cared for holistically. Once in the Mukti family, a young child will be allowed to advance as far as they are capable. This includes those with physical and emotional challenges as the Mission supports schools and training specifically geared to those with learning challenges. Career training is an important step in seeing these children returned to the society which nearly stomped them underfoot. New expansion locations are being researched to continue the influence and impact PRMM has on India's children.

We see connections with people to be an integral part of our mission. Therefore over the next three years, we will continue to increase our Partner Base. This will entail an intentional effort to connect via social networking, face-to-face encounters, and printed media.

These three mediums will be linked and complementary. We are also pursuing program materials for young children and students to give them positive exposure to the Mission. Another avenue in the works is the reprinting of texts relating to Pandita Ramabai. Many of these mediums fell into disuse over 35 years ago. In reinstating these techniques with modern approaches we will see an upswing in awareness of the PRMM with Americans nationwide.

Mukti Mission US continues to identify key personnel to assist with computer and social networking issues. We also partner with our sister Councils in Australia, UK, Scotland, New Zealand, and Canada. Together we work towards a stronger PRMM. Mukti Mission US has funds set aside for implementation over the next two years of our goals. These funds can be viewed as the push to get the ball rolling. As momentum builds and people connect with the aspirations of our goals, we will see an increase in giving and we will realize the completion of many of our projects.

Our desire is to see more women and children ultimately helped from the hopelessness of their circumstances in India. The building of the new English Medium School will expand the reach of PRMM and enable more children to pursue their dreams. The Income Producing Project is providing needed funds to expand the programs of PRMM as well as providing practical avenues of career training for some of the women.

We are also actively engaged in expanding the reach of PRMM. Through over 18 Orchard Projects in eight Indian states, we are seeing children brought into a safe place and a new hope instilled in their lives!

Much is still needed in the areas of leadership development for the administration. As PRMM expands and grows the demands on the leadership also grows heavier. Training the leaders of today and tomorrow is paramount to continuing success. Mukti Mission US in conjunction with other interested Councils hopes to see this area strengthened.

The physical plant of the Mission is deteriorating. Great strides have been made to address many of these needs. With a campus 135 years old, there are many more projects still demanding attention.