If WT Had a Charity Project...What would it be?

I envision something like a "great educational effort" where they would sponsor third world 'foreigners' in an ESL class and would teach them to read using only Awake! magazines. (*Watchtower magazines for advanced students)

What are your ideas for projects they might use in order to create additional funding under the guise of a non-profit project?

They'd open a bloodless surgery center.

cameo-d, I was thinking the same thing that you were. An ESL class based on their publications. They already have the Learn to Read & Write booklet. And whenever they try to start a foreign language group or congregation they have classes to teach the language to those who volunteer to join that group.

a holocaust survivors and education fund, .....maybe not they've done that one already.

Similar to Tuesday thought, our circuit (and I know others in the UK have too) has raised fund to help local hospitals buy cell savers. This is commendable but I feel very self serving.

Literacy

For decades we have organized literacy programs throughout the world for people who have had little or no opportunity to receive formal schooling.

In Brazil, Sirley, a middle-aged teacher and one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, made it a weekly practice to convert her living room into a classroom. At about 2 o’clock, Amélia, an 82-year-old student arrives. Already she is reading better than many youngsters in high school.

Amélia is following in the steps of the more than 60 senior citizens who have graduated from the free literacy classes that Sirley is conducting in her hometown. Sirley’s volunteer work was featured in the Brazilian newspaper Jornal do Sudoeste. After noting that she has made “a huge contribution to community life,” the newspaper article said that Sirley’s method of teaching the elderly is so effective that “after just 120 hours of classes, they are writing letters, reading newspapers, and coping with numbers and other day-to-day tasks.” Literacy classes conducted in hundreds of Kingdom Halls throughout Brazil have already helped more than 22,000 adults in that country to learn to read and write.

Similar programs of Jehovah’s Witnesses have yielded success in other parts of the world. In the African country of Burundi, for example, the National Office for Adult Literacy (a department of the Ministry of Education) was so pleased with the results of the Witnesses’ literacy program that it gave an award to four of the program’s teachers for “the hard work put into teaching others to read.” Government officials are especially impressed that 75 percent of those who learned to read and write were adult women—a group that usually shies away from attending such programs.

On November 17, 2000, the Association of Congolese and African Journalists for the Development (AJOCAD) in the Democratic Republic of Congo presented the Certificate of Excellence to Jehovah’s Witnesses for “their contribution to the development of the Congolese individual [through] the education and the teaching contained in their publications.” In commenting on the award, the Kinshasa newspaper Le Phare said: “It is difficult to find a Congolese in whose hands the Watchtower and Awake! magazines or other publications published by Jehovah’s Witnesses have not passed.” As noted by AJOCAD, the publications of Jehovah’s Witnesses have proved beneficial to a large portion of the Congolese population.