Persecuted Christian orphans · Pakistan

Hands Together to Deliver the Oppressed

In Pakistan, abandoned children survive on the streets or are forced to work from the age of 4 or 5. They are our brothers and sisters in the faith.

Your gift today helps give them safety, food, education and the means to build a future of dignity and hope.

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🏠 These children need a permanent home. Help us build the Refuge of Hope. Discover the project

Smiling orphans sitting on the ground holding up their plates of food

The reality of orphans in Pakistan

Children in danger every day

Orphans are abandoned, mistreated and forced to beg or work in inhumane conditions to survive, in a country where Christians are severely oppressed.

2%Christians, in a country that is 96% Muslim

8^thcountry where Christians are most persecuted¹

3^rdin the world for child mortality²

11%of children aged 5 and over work³

A toddler alone against a brick wall, holding a flatbread

Abandoned

Babies are rejected at birth, sometimes thrown in the garbage. Others are left alone on the streets, hungry and thirsty.

A young barefoot boy carrying a heavy load of bricks on his back

Forced labour and violence

Held captive in forced labour, in extreme heat of 113 °F. This boy carries 120 lb of bricks on his back, barefoot, and is struck every day.

A boy carrying a heavy bowl on his head in a dusty workshop

Exploited

Captured to be exploited, they work with no way out and no chance to go to school.

A boy in dirty clothes holding out his hands

Forced to beg

To survive, they must beg or search for food in the garbage. Exposed to violence, gangs and abuse.

They are our little brothers and sisters in the faith. They know violence, fear and abandonment.

With love and compassion, help us give them the food they need, a safe refuge, tenderness and the hope they so badly need.

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“Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed. Rescue the weak and the needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.”Psalm 82:3-4

Who we are

A mission born from a calling

In 2025, a few Christians in Canada answered the same call from God: to help 40 persecuted orphans in Pakistan, whom a Pakistani Christian had taken in and was feeding with all his strength, despite his own persecution.

That is how the non-profit organization Hands Together (Mains Ensemble in French) was born.

Our team is 100% volunteer. Your gifts go directly to support the orphans in Pakistan, through our two native missionaries. We are in touch with them every week and receive financial reports from them with receipts, photos and videos.

Our missionary pours water into a little girl's cup, seated in a row with other children — Our missionary serving water and a meal to the children.

The founders

Claude Duquette

President

40 years of pastoral and community leadership (former Salvation Army director, founded a therapy centre and community organizations), author and speaker.

Marianne Côté

Secretary and Executive Director

Administrator, former nutritionist, former host of La Parole Vivante on Télé-Mag, with a humanitarian mission in Niger behind her.

Richard Vigneault Boucher

Vice-President and Treasurer

Co-founder of collective farming projects and in charge of buildings and the ecological side at La Villa de Brome.

Lucie Dubé

Co-founder

Former CEO of Côté Cuir.

Our mission

To rescue and protect persecuted Christian orphans and children who are abandoned, mistreated or exploited, by giving them a safe home, food, education and the tools they need to build an independent future, in dignity and hope.

We also support the most vulnerable persecuted Christians and widows through humanitarian aid, tools and education that help them become independent and take charge of their lives.

Lives saved, futures transformed

Before

Abandoned on the street: hunger, thirst, extreme heat.

A boy holding his little brother, both dirty and barefoot

After

Fed, loved, educated.

Our missionary hugging a young orphan — Tenderness, at last.

The orphans seated in rows for a meal, dressed warmly — Mealtime.

A smiling girl holding her bread and meal — No one goes to bed hungry anymore.

A smiling boy with a plate of watermelon — A happy, healthy child full of energy.

Children in school uniforms giving a thumbs-up — The children go to school.

Two little boys eating a chicken meal — Nourishing meals.

Two children holding boxes of new shoes — The orphans are clothed and have shoes.

Seven smiling girls standing against a brick wall — Safe, together.

A boy giving a thumbs-up, holding his meal — Thank you!

A group of joyful children giving a thumbs-up — Joy restored.

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“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me. Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” Matthew 25:35-36, 40

Donate

A gift that saves a child's life

Two smiling girls eating their meal, seated on the ground

$50 a month covers all of a child's needs: three meals a day, clothing, hygiene products, schooling and a roof. Above all, that child is rescued from the street, hunger, abuse and forced labour.

$25 — feeds and protects a child for 2 weeks
$50 / month — all of a child's needs for one month
$100 — all the needs of 2 children for 1 month
$250 — pays for special medical care
$500 — buys essential supplies

If many of us give the amount God has placed on our hearts, we will be able to build the Refuge of Hope they so badly need and rescue even more children.

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Canadian non-profit organization. Donations are not tax-deductible.

Other ways to give

Interac e-Transfer (Canada)

Interac e-Transfer: to donations@handstogether.charity

By cheque

Payable to “Hands Together Organization”
27 Av. Bernard-Dumont Ouest, St-Raphael, QC G0R 4C0, Canada

Questions?

We will be happy to help.
Contact us

Orphanage building project in Faisalabad

Let's build the Refuge of Hope

Today, the orphans in our care live in two rented houses, in very precarious conditions:

Three to a small bed.
In summer, up to 122 °F in rooms with no windows or air conditioning, forcing the children to sleep outside.
No kitchen, no fridge, no clean water.
Threat of eviction: without a building, the orphanage is not legal. It has already happened.

We urgently need a suitable building. With no more room, we can no longer take in other orphans in danger and give them a safe refuge.

Three little girls sleeping squeezed into one small bed — Three girls in one small bed.

Boys sleeping crowded together on mattresses — The boys sleep crowded together.

The current kitchen: a small stove on a table, outdoors — The “kitchen” is outside, with no roof: when it rains, it rains on the kitchen.

Our vision: build a refuge for at least 100 orphans

Over the years, hundreds of children will be rescued thanks to this refuge.

Safe dormitoriesWith windows and bunk beds

Kitchen and clean waterRefrigerator and water filters

EducationComputer lab and sewing centre

Solar energyAgainst daily power cuts and high electricity costs

Food self-sufficiencyGarden, chickens and goats

A place to be lovedFor children who have known only fear and violence

Illustrative image of the future Refuge of Hope orphanage — AI illustration of the future Refuge of Hope.

$150 — 5.5 sq ft of refuge
$250 — 10 sq ft of safety
$500 — 20 sq ft of protection, or supplies such as water filters
$1,000 — 36 sq ft of refuge, or tools, or animals for their self-sufficiency, such as chickens or goats

🤍 I give to build the Refuge

Nehemia in his school uniform, proudly holding his trophy and report card

Nehemia's story

At 5 years old, Nehemia was rescued by our missionary. He had been abandoned on the street with his brother and sister, aged 2 and 3. He searched through garbage at a hospital entrance, living with hunger, thirst and fear.

Today Nehemia is 10. He is loved, fed and clothed. He is first in his class and received an award trophy.

What a beautiful story of redemption, one that gives hope!

Help us build the Refuge of Hope to house Nehemia and rescue other children like him.

🤍 I give to build the Refuge

A real presence. Concrete action for the persecuted

We don't just talk: we are on the ground, with direct action that brings immediate relief to the poorest widows and Christian families.

Poor widows each receiving a bag of flour — Poor widows received flour to feed their families.

Widows receiving flour and cauliflower — Food aid for poor widows: flour and vegetables.

A widow and her three children beside their groceries — A poor widow and her children received food.

Families gathered in a courtyard in front of bags of groceries — Food aid for Christian families held as slaves in brick kilns.

A widow and her daughter receiving groceries — Food aid for a widow with no income and her blind, mute daughter.

Christian families receiving bags of flour — Food distribution for persecuted Christian families.

A child holding groceries for his family — Groceries for a family in need.

Very poor families gathered in a courtyard — Visiting and supporting very poor Christian families.

Two men drilling the well with a bamboo tripod — Drilling the well, to bring clean water to severely persecuted Christians.

A woman drinking clean water from the well — Clean water from a well we had dug for severely persecuted Christians.

Joyful children washing their hands with water from the well — The children's joy at the clean water from the new well.

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Thank you for your generosity

Our team is entirely volunteer. Your gifts therefore go directly to the field in Pakistan, to the most vulnerable.

“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.”James 1:27