R Star Ministries 

Bullet Points:

You have many submissions to look at, so we of the R Star (foundation) Ministries will submit bullet points to indicate our many areas of work and support our successes with write ups we have enjoyed because of our work.   
 

• Nepal: With groups of 25 women in all casts, we gift them 51 goats, (the one is the breeder for the entire village to utilize for strengthening the goat strain),which within 2 years the women in each group will ‘play it forward’ by gifting another village with 2 pregnant goats equal to what they were given or better                                                   
• We have over 11,000 goats emanating from our program in less than 6 years
• Micro-financing is given to each ‘group’ with a cap at 15% for each loan to be maintained 
• Each dues paying member has access to the low interest loans (the dues remain within the groups for their use);  after 3 years the dues will be used to pay for their books, pens and give a small stipend to the treasurer who maintains the ‘bank’ for the women, thus we are teaching ‘’banking’’ to women   
• We inspect each village group often to see their needs, adjust their challenges, to maintain the integrity of the groups, review the contracts and revise them every 5 years… and with over 14 villages and numerous groups, and growing, per most villages, this is huge
• Education: We built a school for 400 children where no school existed.  (Our programs in the school will include beyond the mandated education of the Nepali system, a hanging garden for supplying a larger variety of vegetables and flowers than known presently; teach agriculture in a different way to address small spaces but feed large hunger)  
• PEACE: We teach peace in the school for 10 minutes a day; the children take that home and technically ‘teach’ their families what they learned
• We have a matching “Peace” program in the USA in schools and churches, Boys and Girls Clubs, where teaching peace is presented by us and their teacher/programs as well as having the children produce a ‘peace’ flag which will in time be brought to our Nepali schools to fly while ‘teaching the children’ as each flag teaches peace.  Each child decides what quote to use as well as what to draw per the guidelines of their teacher.  This is giving peace a chance with teaching on both continents on how to achieve peace in our world.  The response to the program is zooming!  Teachers love it as they see it as necessary and responsible to teach peace
• Literacy classes: With a collaboration with a Nepali Rotary Club of Paton, we are over 2 years into teaching the women to read and write, etc., for free.  (Women are at 49% illiteracy within the country per the UN).  We have 22 groups of such classes, 10% going forward to be teachers from our classes
• Established a pure water well for the use of the school exclusively
• We established another pure water well project collaborated with a UK Rotary group for the entire state of Kavre, one of the poorest, roughest districts in the country.  (The pure water extends life for humans and health too; the same is true for the animals, thus raising the bar from deaths in humans and animals).
• We have interns from Soka University to assist us to grow and expand while we expand the interns horizons in the world with the experience and exposure as we have.
• We are teaching skills so others, our interns, can carry on in the world better informed by their experience and exposure to the world
• Until 2009, no overhead has been issued from the donations received (we started in 2003, December)
• Our work has been highly published within the OC area as well as Hawaii and a bit in Oregon with supporters to carry us forward in many States and countries
• By empowering women, we are changing the lives of the entire villages, in time, the country 
• We have brought cottage industry to some of our villages in the form of candle  and incense making with other industry being sought which will be appropriate
• Our future project is to work with ‘deforesting’ by creating another cottage industry to make stoves which are known to be efficient by 75%.  (We are in research at this time, though we do have the ‘recipe’ to make affordable, portable stoves; we are close to starting production once we locate supplies and funding.  The villagers will get up to 40% assistance to purchase these stoves from our fundraising efforts, costing them around $30,00
• We were awarded an international award in Nepal, December 2009 for our work with Single Women, those who are set aside, dismissed, forgotten and ignored
• With our presence, we have stopped trafficking in all our villages, period
• With our influence, we have stopped terrorism being taught in our areas as we lift the villagers from their 5000 years of poverty.  (Terrorist camps are next to some villages, generally Maoist training grounds)
• Art is the additional program we are working on to further the education of the children and adults, with a stipend for the actual artist as is right; and which we hope to sell for fundraising to cover some overhead here, further our programs
• Beyond the Nepal work, the R Star Ministries also has a prison ministry in place for over 26 years.  The purpose of this program is to keep reality in the minds of the inmates so upon release they will be productive citizens since that is not taught in prison, thus in this State we have an 80% recidivism rate in place.  So far this foundation is proud to say we have a zero recidivism rate from our personal touch to inmates with years and years of interactions with them along with follow up upon release for their continued support.  (We work one-on-one with inmates)
• We have an over 7 year “Prayer Group” in place with many religions represented by those who participate with us in prayers to lift and support others.
• The R Star Ministries serves locally with counseling available for a few qualified applicants pro bono; serves this State and this country as well as Nepal… we are multifaceted and service based
• All we have done in the last year has been hindered due to the CEO’s loss because of fire, her home and all contents of her life, thus our work base has been lost for all we do; our records being lost, but in ‘recovery’ as we get sufficient techy help; but we have not stepped away from our commitments before us as we take our work seriously… from our hearts. 
• As we broaden our work, we are expanding to learn how to write grants, look for corporate sponsorship and increase our efforts for more effectiveness to reach peace
• We are looking for funding which will amply support both the needs of the project and the administration as well as our Field Manager in Nepal; to ensure it continues to function by our fundraising and management here in the states,  (and is boosted sufficiently so as to focus on our projects where we do great work, rather than the need to focus on the ‘art of fundraising’
• We are totally grass roots to this day having no large sponsor, just regular people with regular lives supporting us in volunteerism to funding 

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