HAPPY PLACE: The Galilee Daycare School/Library is adorned with murals both inside and out.
Generous Heart Ministry, based in Destin, has been interested in education since it began in 2003 and works globally to help those in the greatest need.
One of the organization’s first programs was to help single mothers and their children with medicine, housing, food and clothing. The next year, they began to give scholarships to orphans in other countries and educate about human trafficking.
“Generous Heart has a strong desire to help educate young people and has been sponsoring scholarships to girls in other countries for many years,” Jane Carron, president of Generous Heart, told The Log. “Education is the key to better opportunities.”
The group has given more than 50 scholarships to children in 14 countries, including the United States, Peru, Kenya, Argentina, Uganda, Mozambique, Latvia, Estonia, Thailand, India and Haiti.
Generous Heart partners with other local organizations to better help those in need. Other the years, they have partnered with Mission Love Seeds to feed a village in the Philippines and at Christmas they helped collect more than 500 toys for foster children in Okaloosa County.
Each year, Generous Heart chooses a local and a global project. Their most recent project was the building of the Galilee Daycare School/Library for Mission Love Seeds in the village of Galilee in the Philippines. Generous Heart provided full funding, from the walls to the desks, to the teacher and school supplies.
“I would love to go some day to visit the village and the children,” Carron said. “There are people in the village who did the murals. They are beautiful. It makes such a happy place for the children to learn.”
The new building is more than even Carron could have imagined.
“This project will touch hundreds of lives for many years,” she said. “The locals worked very hard to give their children a place to go to school. This project is one fishing village helping another village learn to fish.”
This article first ran in The Destin Log.
