It is a core value of THE RITTER GROUP to
apply the principles of systematic development to benefit the poorest
of the poor whenever possible. This commitment has led to the serving
clients in several other nations of the world:
CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL, Tank, Pakistan.
Mothers walk for two days carrying their sick children to this hospital,
then have to wait another day or two to be seen by one of the physicians.
Tank is very close to the border shared by Pakistan and Afghanistan
in the Northern Territories, the probable hiding place of Osama Bin
Laden. Heavy gunfire can be heard in the mountains a short ten miles
away. Although it is a Muslim nation, the hospital is regarded as
a critical resource, and Pakistani armed guards are posted to protect
the hospital and its partly Muslim, partly Christian staff. The medical
staff lives within the walled compound and works far too many hours,
leading to exhaustion and frequent turnover. THE RITTER GROUP raised
the funds needed to send the first exploratory medical team to Tank
in 2005, and assisted in securing in-kind gifts of medical equipment
filling a 40-foot semi truck trailer that was delivered by ocean freighter
to the hospital on Thanksgiving Day, 2006. Funds are now being secured
to send medical teams to both work and teach each quarter beginning
in March, 2007.
DAYSPRING YOUTH CAMP, Kero, Romania.
Each summer over 400 young people from Romania spend four days together
sharing worship, creative arts, singing, friendship and hope for the
future in this former Soviet nation. The youth spend all year
in subsistence living and manual labor to spend these four days away.
The camp is growing so quickly that its makeshift army tent village
and water truck no longer comply with the new health regulations for
such a conclave in a nation of the European Union. THE RITTER GROUP is
helping Dayspring to secure $500,000 in needed funds for the creation
of a campus with lodging, meeting spaces, dining hall, kitchen and other
facilities which satisfy the new code.
LAVICTOIRE SCHOOL, Central Plateau, Haiti
Haiti is one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. There are 90,000 children living on its central plateau, and only three public secondary schools to serve them. Greg is helping to raise $200,000 to add a fourth school in LaVictoire, which the Haitian government has agreed to staff and maintain. The new school will welcome students in September, 2009.
LOS AMIGOS DEL PADRE JUAN, Chimbote, Peru
Los Amigos Del Padre Juan is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to helping the residents of Chimbote, Peru develop self-sustaining educational, economic and humanitarian aid programs. Greg directed a vigorous process of strategic planning with the Board which surfaced seven critical issue areas to create the present YES, WE CAN! $10 million capital fund drive.
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