Food Shelter Health Ministry (FSHM), a Dallas, Texas based nonprofit, was founded in 2006 by Marsha Thompson, a nurse, with a mission to provide food, clean water, shelter, healthcare and education for orphans in underdeveloped countries.

FSHM is working to build Children’s Villages for orphans, with the first village in Uganda, serving about 500 orphans, in the works to be opened this summer.

The 100 acres of land for the project was donated by the people of Uganda. The Government of Uganda is assisting by providing roads, electricity and local staffing. In Uganda, there are about 2 million orphans and half the Ugandan population is under 15 years of age.

The Children’s Village for Orphans will include housing (brick and steel on concrete slabs with electricity and running water), a medical facility project which will treat members of the project as well as people in the surrounding community, and a water purification and bottling plant that will reduce deaths and illnesses and provide jobs and self-sustaining income for the Children’s Village.

Future plans include the development of similar Children’s Villages for orphans in other regions such as Sub-Saharan African, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Donation and volunteer opportunities are listed on their website.