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If you are a pastor or
leader who is looking for funds for a church based program or project
we recommend that you study
these pages very carefully before applying to the MS
Foundation.
If you are a student looking for funds to continue higher education
then we recommend that you study
these pages very carefully.
If you are looking for capital to open a Banking for the Poor or a Micro-credit scheme
for your area then please study
this page very carefully and apply to one of the funding
agencies on the list given at the end of the page.
If you are looking for Bibles we
recommend that you study these pages very carefully
and contact the office of the organisation. You will find more
possibilities on this page.
If you are known to our own DCI movement, or are a leader, student or
graduate of a DCI Schools of Mission
then you may apply to our own DCI Fund for a small grant, loan or 50/50
partnership up to $1000 for one project at a time in the following
categories:
1. Development
of DCI
Schools of Mission or similar training centres,
after the first graduation has taken place.
2. Helping young people follow the call of God to the lost and the poor.
3. Taking the gospel to people on the Joshua
Unreached List.
4. Innovative mission of all kinds like Sports Championships.
5. Medical and other mercy projects
for the lost and the poor.
6. Emergency, life or death issues in illness or following
an accident,
or natural disaster.
We
regret that we cannot accept applications for the
following
as these are the responsibility
of the local people or church:
Requests to provide personal income,
businesses, support,
salaries or monthly expenses for the
personal benefit
of the applicant.
Building programs, conventions, or the purchase of gifts, cars, motor-bikes, computers, scanners, cameras and copiers.
Click
here to read: Why is this ?
The four basic criteria
we employ to evaluate any application are:
1. Is the applicant in good
relationship with us ? *
2. Is the applicant a good and truthful communicator ?
3. Can the applicant give evidence of proven integrity ?
4. Is the applicant competent
to run the project ?
*
Our first guiding principle
is that sponsorship only ever follows relationship and friendship.
Relationship begins through communication and working together, which
leads to a two-way friendship and a growing mutual trust, which may
then be followed by sponsorship if this is required to
complete an
agreed project. Click
here to see how to begin a relationship with us, and
when you have begun a project, write and tell us. You
must build a relationship with us before asking about money.
Our second guiding
principle is that the DCI Fund does not provide
"hand-outs" or aid, instead we consider "hand-ups" - that is giving a
helping hand to pull people upwards into long-term solutions for their
needs and opportunities. For example
we will not buy chairs for a School of
Mission or church but we will buy tools and initial materials to
provide
employment for a man or woman who can make chairs for the School and to
sell in
the market place. Before you ask for a gift of pounds consider
asking for a plantation
that will generate money.
Before you think about making any application from
this page please understand our requirements and procedures and be
prepared to
follow them with great patience. Our problem is that if we do not
know you personally
then we have to proceed with great caution. We do
not want to
refuse any genuine application
but please try to understand that we have a very
serious responsibility to ensure that funds from our
supporters do
not fall into
the wrong hands or are used for wrong purposes.
The following is the only way
to
approach the DCI Fund.
Please carefully read the introduction
again and apply ONLY
if you qualify. If you do not
qualify
please do not go any further as we will not be able to help you and you
will be disqualified from making another application.
If you do qualify then please send us an initial enquiry in a
maximum of TEN LINES IN
ENGLISH through this
secure page only. You will not be able to attach any
files or photos.
1.
Tell us who you are, your age and where you live.
2.
Tell us how we know you. Are you are a leader, staff member,
student or graduate of a School of Mission, church or project
that
we know ?
3. Give us a brief description of your proposed project
and the cost,
which must fit into one of the priority categories given
above. Please bear in mind that a first application must be
for one project only
and have a maximum
value of US $1000 and you are advised to apply for much
less.
If
you do not answer these three
questions we will not be able to help you. Please do not
tell us any more than this. We
will reply to let you know if we may be able to consider a
full application or not, and if
we have the funds available. If we can help you we will send
you a full application form. You must allow a minimum of one month
for your application to be processed and if we have questions or if we
have to check facts and references then the process may take up to three months, although we will work as quickly as possible.
See a sample of the full application form in
pdf
Click
here for advice about making Internet applications
Since 1985 the DCI Fund has
helped to provide buildings,
books, camels, childcare, cycles,
computers, clothes, cows, farms, films, fish, food, goats, jobs,
medicines,
micro-credit schemes, travel to unreached peoples, plantations to
provide food to give and to sell, seeds,
schools, shops to provide funds to bless the poor, spectacles, sports
tournaments, tools, training, travel, water, wheelchairs,
workshops and wells to many men and women in the developing
world.
Would
you like to see some of our photos?
Click to
see our Picasa Albums from around the
world.
Choose
one and then click Slideshow to see the display.
Click
here
for Schools of Mission around the world
Click here
for Banking for the Poor projects
Click
here for projects to help orphans and the poor
Click here
to see some of the people in the DCI family
This page is dated March18th, 2010 and
replaces
all previous pages.
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