Giving
We document buildings for a living. But a building is only ever worth what it does for the people inside it, and the same is true of a company. This page is about where we intend the work to go.
Said plainly first
There is no donate button here and there will not be one until it can be done properly. Avodas is a for-profit company, not a registered non-profit. We are not soliciting donations, we are not collecting money on anyone's behalf, and nothing on this page is tax-deductible to you.
What we do instead is simple: a share of every project we are paid for goes toward the commitments below. That is our money, given from our revenue, and it does not depend on anybody clicking anything.
We are telling you this before telling you the good part, because a company that leads with its giving and buries its structure is usually hiding the structure.
Who this is about
A man lays tile in a city he will never live in, so that a child he has not seen in three years can stay in school.
Across the Gulf and the wider Middle East, millions of people work construction, cleaning, driving and service jobs and send most of what they earn home — to Asia, to Africa, to families they see once every year or two, sometimes less.
They are doing exactly what we say we believe about work: labouring carefully at something unglamorous for the sake of somebody else. The difference is the cost. Their version means years apart from their own children.
We are not going to publish their names or their photographs. People in that position can face real consequences from employers and immigration systems for being identified, and a story that helps us could genuinely harm them. When we have partners who can handle consent and risk properly, we will say more — carefully, and with permission.
What we intend to support
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Support directed at families rather than overheads — toward stability, schooling and the possibility of a parent coming home for good rather than sending money forever. Through partners doing that work on the ground.
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The people doing relief and mission work burn out quietly and rarely ask. We want to pay for the trip away, the week off, the thing nobody budgets for — practical rest, arranged and funded, with no report expected in return.
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Grief, illness, a family coming apart. Not clinical care — we are not licensed for that and will always point you to someone who is. Just the unglamorous accompaniment that helps somebody get through a month: showing up, practical help, staying in touch.
Two of these three are things money cannot do on its own, which is why this is not only a donation page.
Why families
Institutions come and go. A family that is provided for and present tends to outlast every programme designed to help it.
We think the family is the most important structure there is — not as a slogan, but as a practical observation about where change lasts. Support a household and you have supported everyone in it, for longer than any single intervention runs.
That is also why the work of keeping a home, raising children, and sending money back is worth taking seriously as work. It is the same word we named the company after. Avodah does not distinguish between the labour and the offering, and it does not rank the warehouse above the kitchen.
We would rather help fathers and mothers do what they are already trying to do than design something clever on their behalf.
An open invitation
We are part of a local church community and intend to work through established organisations rather than building a parallel one. We are not trying to become the charity — we would rather fund and support people already doing this well.
If you run a church, a mission, or a relief organisation working with migrant workers, families overseas, or people serving abroad — we would like to talk. We are especially interested in partners who already handle consent and safeguarding properly, because that is the part we are unwilling to improvise.
And when partnerships are formalised, we will name them here plainly and say what went where. Until then we would rather under-claim than dress it up.
The standard
The giving does not redeem the work; the work has to be good on its own. If we ever treat a client badly and point at this page, you should stop believing the page.
Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men.
Colossians 3:23Next step
The most useful thing you can do here is give us work to do well. That is what funds all of it.