A charity that supports more than 100 church communities in an area of India largely neglected by mainstream funding, delivering effective interventions in health, sanitation, education & community development.
FIAM was founded by, and continues to be led by Janaki Menni. Through her hard work, and the support of others in the ministry, FIAM now supports an orphans project, a community for those living with leprosy, a project supporting elderly people living outside of any family networks, and several rural communities of stone-cutters and marginalized tribes-people. FIAM has also trained many church leaders to support the ever-growing number of churches in its network, and these church leaders also take faith-based humanitarian aid to other regions of India as the need arises.
St. Joseph’s School is a FIAM-run school in a town called Nallarjeerla, in the Andhra Pradesh region of India. The school has good academic results and a great local reputation.
60% of the pupils there attend at a subsidised cost or completely free because FIAM want to make a good education a realistic opportunity for children who would otherwise be unable to go to school.
FIAM’s dreams for the pupils of St. Joseph’s are big and compassionate and CRED is excited to partner with them on their journey.
Business Project
From the start of 2020, FIAM began a pilot project to help start new family businesses, a vital need where there is much poverty. Using donations from the UK, small loans enabled family businesses within the churches to start or move forward. Despite the problems of Covid, all loans have been repaid on time and the businesses, mainly in farming and retail, have made good progress. The repaid loans enable more businesses to gain this vital injection of funds.
Building on the success of the pilot, FIAM hopes to extend the project, either through loans or through the purchase of essential equipment that can be hired by businesses. It is hoped that this project will continue to grow, as donated funds can be recycled several times to help new businesses as loans are repaid, or as equipment hire brings ongoing income.
If you would like to be involved in helping to fund more small businesses, please contact (partner liaison manager) to discuss options.
Learn more about FIAM’s work in Janaki’s supporter meeting video
Latest News
Introducing St Joseph’s school assembly board 30 Oct 2024 FIAM-run St Joseph’s school has over 600 students attending from age 4 upwards, and one of the key roles that students can take on is being a member of the school assembly board. The board is responsible for helping to run assembly each day. The elements of the daily assembly…
FIAM update 23 Oct 2024 written by Janaki NB please note that the update on St Joseph’s school was posted on 09/10/2024, so this post covers other aspects of FIAM’s work. * Small business By God’s grace we helped a joint family to open a general store. The whole family works for that small business.…
St Joseph’s school update -FIAM 9 Oct 2024 written by Janaki With your sacrificial prayers and God’s amazing grace we have been blessed with an arrangement to educate 626 children. We started the construction in the month of April and we are very focused on continuous construction work sometimes 20 hours a day to finish on time that…
Congratulations: Top of the class! 10 Jul 2024 Congratulations from all at CRED Foundation for Srivalli, a 10th grade student from St Joseph’s school in Nallajeerla, India, who came top of the district in the recent school leavers exams. She also ranked 4th in the state of Andhra Pradesh. St Joseph’s school is one of the projects run…