The Dhaka-based CSS works through local congregations to provide health care, education and small loans so people can start their own businesses, he said. CSS cares for 523 children in three orphanages, Munshi said. They are fed, clothed, educated and taught about Christ, and some later attend the ministry's Bible college. Munshi hopes to open small orphanages at 150 churches and is looking for supporters who will help the churches care for up to 15 children each. The ministry supports schools attended by hundreds of poor children, supplying books, pencils and paper, and teachers for kindergarten through grade three, he said.
Classes meet in church buildings or donated facilities.
It also operates a private 200-bed hospital that is named after Munshi's grandfather. A program gives people a chance to lift themselves out of poverty. World Relief and CSS provide small, short-term loans to people to start their own businesses, White said. They use the funds to buy seeds and farming equipment, or materials to manufacture products to sell. Handicapped people who used to beg now sell items they make with money from the program, said White, who visited the country recently.