Incredible India! 

India is a country of remarkable contrasts. It has one of the world's fastest growing economies, continuing to vie with other developing nations to become a focus of world trade and commerce. Over the past five years the number of millionaires in India has grown in excess of 15% each year.

However, poverty is still prevalent and the country struggles with many other issues and problems. There is a strong and lingering legacy through India's caste system, a dominance of national religion in politics and superstition and fear amongst remote rural communities and villages where many are still in the grip of witchcraft.

Nevertheless, India has leaped into the foreground as one of the most important players in the world economy, influencing and effecting events around the globe.

• India is home to 1.028 billion people, making it the world's second most populated country after China. 
• One out of every six people on earth lives in India.
• 45.5% of India's people are under 20 years of age.
• Poverty in India's slums and rural villages is among the worst in the world. A third of the population survive on less than 50 pence per day.
• 1 in 3 adults cannot read or write. (Literacy experts believe closer to 70% of Indians are functionally illiterate.)
• India contains one fourth (412 million) of the 1.6 billion people on earth who never heard about Jesus or what the Bible says.

Incredible India still has many needs.
            This is where Mission India looks to help!