Our story
Pure Works was started by Rich Young in 1999 after a trip to Lusaka, Zambia. Here are the mission, a letter from Rich, and the facts about the organization.
Mission
To visit and bring aid to the world's most vulnerable people.
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
James 1:27
From Rich Young
We have been supporting humanitarian causes since 1999. What we have seen accomplished in the lives of women and children continues to inspire us to do more. We hope that how we do it will inspire you to join and collaborate with us in your thoughts, prayers, resources, and personal involvement!
With financial resources, we multiply the value of each donor’s dollar. We call this leverage giving: being able to take your project dollars and multiply the value of each dollar to make it worth far more by purchasing or obtaining goods far below their wholesale value and subsequently delivering them to widows, orphans, and other needy individuals of the world.
Consider our first project, the “George Young Memorial, a Zambia Container Project.” For less than US$15,000, we delivered to Zambian missions more than US$140,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies.
Or one of our more recent projects, the “Abba Father Medical Brigade and Concerts 2002.” For less than US$15,000, we delivered more than US$1.1 million worth of wholesale medicine to Zambia.
It is our commitment to excellence and strong business skills that has helped us expand our own business, Action Residential Mortgage, tenfold in our first six years in business. We’ve now been in business nearly twenty years. We apply those values, tactics, and skills to humanitarian efforts through Pure Works.
We are excited about other numerous projects, both planned and completed, locally and around the world.
These projects include Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, Nepal, the Philippines, Burundi, Zambia, and locally in San Francisco.
Our best results are coming from key strategic alliances made with people who are experienced and knowledgeable in caring for the poor, especially orphaned children and widows. To name a few, these include Global Operations & Development, MAP International, Operation Blessing, Feed My Starving Children, Philippine Relief and Development Services and Heart For The World.
These are people we trust, people who know how to bring about lasting change for those in need.
Thanks so much for your time, your thoughts and prayers, and your collaborative interest in Pure Works!
Sincerely,
Rich Young
Partners
Rich names these organizations in his letter as strategic alliances. Jordan International Aid and IsraAID worked alongside Pure Works in Nepal in 2015.
- Global Operations & Development
- MAP International
- Operation Blessing
- Feed My Starving Children
- Philippine Relief and Development Services
- Heart For The World
- Jordan International Aid (2015 Nepal medicine procurement)
- IsraAID (2015 Nepal relief clinics)
