Every gift is received with gratitude and stewarded with care.
As an international Christian NGO, WAM serves vulnerable communities in many parts of the world through humanitarian aid, church support, medical relief, food security, emergency response, education, and sustainable development.
Because WAM’s work reaches different people, places, and needs, donors sometimes ask an important question:
How does WAM use my gift?
The answer is simple: WAM honors donor intent.
Restricted Giving
Restricted giving means the donor designates how the gift should be used. That designation may be for a specific country, project, ministry, church, emergency response, or type of work.
For example:
If you give to support a church through WAM’s Adopt-a-Church project, your gift supports that church. If you give to support earthquake relief in Syria or feeding projects in Kenya, your gift supports those efforts.
Restricted gifts may support humanitarian work, church-focused work, or a specific project within either area. Institutional funders may specific projects through grants. Individual donors may support
Humanitarian Giving
Humanitarian giving may support practical aid and recovery efforts such as:
- Feeding projects
- Medicine distribution
- Sustainable development
- Education support
- Women and youth programs
- Trauma training
- Refugee and IDP support
- Building rehabilitation
These gifts help WAM respond to human suffering with practical care, dignity, and compassion.
Church-Focused Giving
Church-focused giving may support ministry needs such as:
- Adopt-a-Church
- Church support
- Ministry needs
- Pastoral care
- Pastor training
- Discipleship
- Congregation relief
These gifts help strengthen local churches and support Christian communities facing hardship, instability, or persecution.
Unrestricted Giving
Unrestricted giving means the donor allows WAM to use the funds where and when the need is greatest. These gifts give WAM flexibility to respond when needs are urgent, timing is unpredictable, or a critical gap is not covered by restricted funding.
Unrestricted funds may be used for things like:
- Supporting the highest-priority needs
- Allowing immediate response when crises erupt
- Bridging timing gaps in project funding
- Responding to urgent field needs and contingencies
- Launching small pilot projects
- Covering critical needs before a formal campaign is launched
Unrestricted gifts are not “less specific” because they matter less. They are intentionally flexible so WAM can respond quickly and wisely when urgent needs arise.
Who supports WAM?
WAM receives support from many sources, including individual donors, businesses, churches, foundations, charities, governments, and other NGOs. Some gifts are designated for a specific purpose. Others are given broadly to support WAM’s mission wherever help is most urgently needed.
Both matter.
Both serve the mission.
Both help WAM bring practical care to people facing war, poverty, disaster, displacement, and persecution.
Faithful Stewardship Matters
Stewardship is not only a financial responsibility. For WAM, it is part of our Christian witness.
We believe generosity should be handled with integrity, care, and accountability. Donors give because they want to help. Communities receive because the need is real. WAM stands between the two with a responsibility to honor both. This means honoring donor intent, communicating clearly, and using resources carefully in the places we are called to serve.
One Mission. Two Ways to Give.
Restricted gifts follow donor intent.
Unrestricted gifts help WAM respond where and when the need is greatest.
Together, they allow WAM to serve vulnerable communities with compassion, flexibility, and faithful stewardship.
Your gift matters. Your intent matters. And WAM is committed to stewarding both with care.
