Most of the villages where the Rescue street children come from are extremely poor and there is a need to evaluate their family's potential need for economic assistance.  

Two of the boys at the Rescue Home are true orphans, their Mother and Father committed suicide and their widow grandmother is their legal gaurdian.  She came to drop the boys at the Rescue Home after they had been reconciled with her.
 Because of the great travelling distance to her village, she stayed at the Rescue home for a couple of days before returning to her village.  During that time Rescue leadership spoke to her extensively about her situation. She is a daily laborer, planting rice by hand in the fields.  She is old and has many health issues that prevent her from continuing this for too much longer.  

When various ideas were explored that might provide alternative income, she thought the best idea was if she could have two baby sheep to raise for 5 months, she could sell them to the butcher for a profit and then buy two more.  This cycle would eventually provide her with more income than her daily labor in the rice fields.  Rescue offered to provide the initial investment of two baby sheep.  

 Rescue leadership went to the village and purchased the sheep and presented them to the children's grandmother.  The village and relatives received the Rescue leadership with gratitude and excitement and a special relationship was started with that village.  We are excited to see the outcome.  

One of the boys from the Rescue Home who had decided to go to school from his home was in need of transportation to get to and from school.  Rescue purchased a bicycle for him.