The BAF is proud to be making a difference in the lives of people worldwide, thanks to the generous donations to the fund from people like you.

People You Have Helped through the Fund

Donors like you paid for Deepthi’s hospital costs. Deepthi is three years old and lives in Tamil Nadu, India. She had a high fever and severe joint pains. She was diagnosed with chikungunya virus, transmitted by mosquitos. Treatment was successful—Deepthi was released from hospital with continuing antibiotics under outpatient medical supervision.

Donors also paid the hospital bill of Laxmi, a young woman in India. She was bitten by a king cobra that got into her house. Into her house? Many houses of the poor have walls of clay and wood that have many areas a cobra can work its way into the house. She was hospitalized, and needed a blood transfusion. With the transfusion she recovered and is well today.

Barnabas Almsgiving Fund was also met the need of a woman in Indiana for medical insurance. Paz is a single woman, unemployed, who had exhausted her COBRA medical benefits. She has a chronic condition requiring specialized medical treatment. Donors contributed substantial funds so that she could continue medical insurance.

Donors learned of a pressing need of Sr. Anne, the Superior General of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Vellore, India through the Barnabas Almsgiving Fund. She was using an obsolete Windows computer that frequently crashed. Donors gave her a laptop and a printer/copier/scanner/fax machine to support her administration of 260 sisters. The laptop allows her to get work done while traveling by train or bus to cities in which her sisterhood has ministries.

Barnabas Almsgiving Fund helped Leena in Tamil Nadu finish building a house for her and her mother. While a government program enabled them to start construction, the house cost more than the government allowance provided. Generous donors responded to our appeal, and funds were wired to a local bank in Nagercoil, near the southern tip of India.

Donors have supported the cost of round-the-clock care for a woman with multiple sclerosis. A team of women have unselfishly given their time to provide care, including meals, cleaning, laundry, but even so, there is the cost of home, utilities, groceries, and medical treatment. Friends of the Fund have made those purchases possible each year.