11 Ardsleigh Drive
Madison, NJ 07940
phone (973)714-0023
email: info@worldhopecorps.com
"Believers Without Borders"
About WorldHope Corps
WorldHope Corps, Inc. is a voluntary, faith-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)3 tax exempt organization in New Jersey founded in 2007 by Dr. Michael Christensen of Drew University. Our mission is to connect resources with needs to build capacity for sustainable community development. Our strategy is to come along side local, indigenous, community-based organizations and congregations as a mission partner with technical assistance and relational support; connect resources with needs by procuring humanitarian aid, mobilizing volunteers, and sponsor specific projects; and empower local leaders to access and build on local resources for assess-based community development.
Our current focus is northern Malawi, but we also supply oncological drugs and sponsor other medical assistance to the “Children of Chernobyl” in Belarus who continue to suffer the physical and psycho-social repercussions of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986. In 2008, World Hope Corps sponsored lifesaving oncological drugs valued at $200,000 to the 30 rural and urban hospitals in Belarus as part of an ongoing program of CitiHope International.
In Malawi, WHC serves as the ministry partner of the United Methodist Church, Mzuzu Circuit—a network of nine congregations in northern Malawi, all extremely poor and in need of outside resources at the present time. WHC serves as the fiscal agent and capacity-builder of their orphan care program on three levels of operation: 1) food subsidy for 80 orphans, 2) educational support for 20 youth in secondary school and vocational training, and 3) deep water wells in 3 villages in need of a sustainable supply of fresh water.
The concept of a local congregation taking responsibility to meet the basic needs of the orphans in their community is called a 'HopeChurch'. The HopeChurch international partnership was an idea born during a mission trip in 2006. Currently, it receives support from WorldHope Corps, CitiHope International and the United Methodist Global AIDS Fund.
In 2007, WorldHope Corps organized a Mission Trip to Malawi with CitiHope International to provide food and medical aid to ten community-based organizations caring for orphaned and abandoned children, including the Mzuzu HopeChurch. Similar mission trips were organized and taken in 2008 and 2009.
WorldHope Corps, in partnership with CitiHope International, initiated a Village Well project in 2007, and sponsored its first village well community development project in the rural village of Zowe. A total of 7 village wells were installed in 2007-2008.
In 2008, WHC supported a family of three in which the mother suffered with AIDS and then died. WHC also provided funding for a new roof of a church building caring for 80 orphans. Other humanitarian aid projects are anticipated during calendar year 2009.
