Development and economic recovery

A container of needed school supplies, sport equipment and water tanks was delivered to San Jacinto Village in Nicaragua in June 2009. Gift packages, schoolbags, stationery, notebooks, bicycles, baseball sets, first-aid boxes and water tanks were distributed among children, school staff and village residents during the beautiful one day ceremony.

More than 40 years of civil war in Angola came to an end in April 2002 with the historic signing of a peace agreement. Soon after, an urgent request to The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles was made to help strengthen the peace by sending humanitarian assistance to the country. Immediately The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles world-wide began sending large amounts of pharmaceuticals, medical and surgical supplies, food, clothing and more to Angola.

In August 2004, The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles arranged for a 40-foot container of new clothing to be sent from the Japan Clothing Depot to Phnom Penh, for distribution by the Cambodian Red Cross.

In July 2004, our members in the United Kingdom sent a full sea container of additional goods collected for Guinea-Bissau, including school equipment (approx. 200,000 pencils), stationery, computers, clothing, toys and medical supplies. The school equipment was donated to schools in rural areas of the country. The medical supplies were distributed to a major hospital in the capital city, Bissau.

During the winter of 1990, when the Russian people were suffering severely from food shortage and economic hardships due to the political changes, the German people wished to express their gratitude for what President Gorbachev had done for them in helping reunite their country. The German, Swiss and Austrian branches of The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles began sending trucks with urgently needed food and clothing to Russia. This is how our worldwide humanitarian service began.

The Oneness-Heart-Tears and Smiles organisation has worked closely with an organisation in Maputo, Mozambique which is seeking to increase literacy and schooling and giving people the tools and skills they require to raise themselves out of poverty.

One 20-foot sea container from Germany included water pumps, agricultural equipment, school supplies as well as 12 hydraulic hospital beds, computers and monitors from Austria.

In 2005 the New Zealand OHTS Office received a call from a family offering us a pedal sewing machine.

We did not have a specific country to offer this machine to at the time but knowing how beneficial this item would be to someone we gratefully accepted this donation. We then started to make enquiries with our contacts in the Pacific and received this letter back from Samoa.

Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean.

The Maldives is located about seven hundred kilometres (435 miles) south-west of Sri Lanka. The Maldives' twenty-six atolls encompass 1,192 islets, roughly two hundred of which are inhabited by local communities. This nation was hugely affected by the tsunami caused by the earth quake off Indonesia, December 26, 2004.

In January 2006 we sent five sewing machines to the Philani Nutrition and Development Project in Cape Town South Africa. The sewing machines will provide training opportunities for women in the slums of Cape Town. The aim of this part of the project is for it to become financially independent to avoid health and nutrition problems of their families.