EVERY CHILD DESERVES TO GROW UP IN A FAMILY As the Child Reintegration Centre reunites orphaned and abandoned children with families, they are helping the families become stable and self-sufficient by providing them with mentoring, skills training, and case management, in addition to the support for education and health care extended to all children and youth in the program. Extremely vulnerable and foster families receive material support to help them provide for their children.
In Sierra Leone, families on the low end of the economic spectrum generally provide for themselves through some combination of subsistence farming and street selling, often living on the edge of survival. To help these families flourish, the CRC gives parents the opportunity to enroll in a microfinance program to learn small business and money management skills, how to create a budget and save money, and how to do simple banking transactions. Graduates receive a small loan to start or expand a small business. Acquiring these skills can truly help a family break out of the cycle of dysfunction and illiteracy that mires families in extreme poverty.
We have had a Child Sponsorship for many years, and it has successfully provided resources to keep children in school, provide for their medical care, and more recently we began providing a mechanism for their parents to become better equipped to care. What we quickly realized is that the more we focus on that last part, the better chances we give these children to grow into successful adults.
You can help a vulnerable family become stable and self-sufficient. You can support their empowerment with your donations.
You can become an empowerment advocate.
What can empowerment advocates achieve? Together, we will change the entire outlook for the families and children living in extreme poverty. Eventually, we can ensure the end of the Orphan and Family Separation Crisis in Sierra Leone.
In Sierra Leone, families on the low end of the economic spectrum generally provide for themselves through some combination of subsistence farming and street selling, often living on the edge of survival. To help these families flourish, the CRC gives parents the opportunity to enroll in a microfinance program to learn small business and money management skills, how to create a budget and save money, and how to do simple banking transactions. Graduates receive a small loan to start or expand a small business. Acquiring these skills can truly help a family break out of the cycle of dysfunction and illiteracy that mires families in extreme poverty.
We have had a Child Sponsorship for many years, and it has successfully provided resources to keep children in school, provide for their medical care, and more recently we began providing a mechanism for their parents to become better equipped to care. What we quickly realized is that the more we focus on that last part, the better chances we give these children to grow into successful adults.
You can help a vulnerable family become stable and self-sufficient. You can support their empowerment with your donations.
You can become an empowerment advocate.
What can empowerment advocates achieve? Together, we will change the entire outlook for the families and children living in extreme poverty. Eventually, we can ensure the end of the Orphan and Family Separation Crisis in Sierra Leone.
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If you wish to support family empowerment, please join the movement to become an advocate by donating or gathering with others on a team working together. You can begin to help with as little as $25 a month, or by making an annual donation of as little as $300 per month. Or you can do much more. You can transition your current Child Sponsorship donation to a Family Empowerment donation at the exact same level, or you can do more.
Select "I want to empower families" to begin donating now to support family empowerment. Select "Participate" to create a team to work together to empower families. |
