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Over the years since 1987 the DCI Fund has provided buildings, books, camels, childcare, cycles,
computers, clothes, cows, farms, films, food, goats, jobs, medicines,
micro-credit schemes, missions to the poor or unreached peoples, seeds,
schools, spectacles, tools, training, travel, water, wheelchairs,
workshops and wells to many leaders in the developing world.
15th June 2009
We consider applications from our partners* with well established Schools of
Mission, churches
or projects for help in these areas:
1. Opening new Schools of Mission or similar centres.
2. Visiting people on the Joshua
Unreached Peoples list.
3. New mission and church planting.
4. Micro-credit
Banking for the Poor or income generating schemes.
5. Medical mission or other projects for the lost and the poor. 6.
Emergency, life or death issues. This category is only open to known
and trusted members of the DCI network who are facing sudden crises,
for example following an accident or in serious illness. Click here to send us all the information and we will contact you.
At present we have no funds available for the following as we feel that these are the responsibility of the local church, school or project:
7. Requests to provide income, businesses, support, wages or monthly expenses for personal use.
8. Building programmes or the purchase of cars or motor-bikes.
Changes will be announced on this page as the year progresses.
* 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, and keep writing each month.
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.
The beneficiaries of your project
may be all nationalities, all faiths, poor and richer, men and
women of all ages.
The DCI Fund is a small, private fund sponsored by no
more than 60 people and is a registered charity regulated and inspected
by the Charity Commission of the United Kingdom government.
The Fund is comfortable with considering
first-time grants for projects up to the maximum value of US $1000. We are not equipped to handle the large-scale
projects and supervision normally undertaken by major charities,
denominations, relief agencies and NGO's.
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.
Would you like to see some of our photos?
Click to
see our Picassa 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
The following is the only way
to
approach the DCI Fund.
1.
Make an initial enquiry
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 for a year. You must build a relationship with us before speaking about money.
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 the name of the School of Mission or affiliated church or project that you represent. Tell us if you are a leader, staff member, student or graduate.
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 has a maximum
value of $1000 and you are advised to apply for much less.
Please do not
tell us any more than this at the moment. We
will reply to let you know if we can consider a
full application or not, and if
we have the funds available at this time. If we can help you we will
then send you an application form or you may see a copy of it now to
prepare yourself.
See a sample of the application form in pdf
Click here to see The Do's and Don'ts of Fund Raising
Latest Guidance Notes
The board of the DCI Trust employs a zero-tolerance
policy without any appeal in the case of the submission of any
false information to apply for funding, and towards even a hint of
dishonesty or fraudulent activity.
The DCI Trust cannot pay you or employ you to
start a School
of Mission.
We look for your investment first, then for your faithfulness,
communication, integrity and perseverance. We may be able to help you
with
agreed start-up costs that you cannot find yourself and we will hope to
develop a partnership with you as the work progresses.
The Trust seriously regrets that it cannot help with long-term or monthly funding of orphans because we do not have the legal permission for this kind of activity. The Trust is not
equipped to do the continual supervision and staff checks that UK law
demands to protect vulnerable children. We might be able to
help
to launch an orphan care project with a one-off gift if the project
is an activity of an affiliated School of Mission or church.
We will send packages of Christian books to
the developing world but you must be prepared to pay all the
local customs duties and the fees charged by the shipping agents at
your harbour or airport. Please check the costs before you request
books because these can be expensive.
If any sponsored project fails to submit a report
within one month of the agreed time it will
not be allowed to ask for extra funds in the future.
We will not provide funds for photocopiers as they
always go wrong and are then often abandoned because no-one can afford
the cost of repairs or replacement toner.
This page is dated June 12th, 2009 and replaces
all previous pages.
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