Imagine if your church was given all the tools it needed to help address the complex causes of poverty, including material, spiritual, emotional, social, economic, and educational needs. Your connection to the community overseas would empower local leaders to provide food, medical care and hope to their community, while sharing love and compassion. Imagine if …
Welcome to the second blog in our series, “The 12 Areas of Community Transformation.” Over the course of this year we are answering the question, “How is HopeChest different from other leading child sponsorship organizations?” Today’s blog is about the second of these 12 areas of primary community transformation. Arts and Recreation In the beginning, …
We are now in our last couple of hours together as a team. This marks our 41st hour traveling since we started our journey home. We woke up in Jinja, Uganda and are currently en route from Washington DC to Huntsville, where we will part ways for the first time in two weeks. We have …
This Thursday is International Women’s Day, and we are kicking off the week by highlighting some incredible women in Guatemala who call themselves “Mujeres Emprendedoras,” or Entrepreneur Women. They are innovative, hardworking, supportive of each other and are an amazing example for their children. At the Puerto Abajo CarePoint in Guatemala, these 20-or-so women-all mothers …
Welcome to the first blog in our series, “The 12 Areas of Community Transformation.” Over the course of this year we are answering the question, “How is HopeChest different from other leading child sponsorship organizations?” Today’s blog is about the first of the 12 areas of primary community transformation. Agriculture and Animal Husbandry The ability …
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Today is World Day of Social Justice! This awareness day was created by the United Nations in 2007 to support efforts of the international community in poverty eradication, the promotion of full employment and decent work, gender equity and access to social wellbeing and justice for all. This year we are raising our voices along …
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What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day this week than by sharing a love story that resulted in a marriage at one of our CarePoints in Ethiopia!? Children’s HopeChest is a relationship-centric organization; and often, during the course of community partnerships, the two partnering communities become like second family as relationships deepen and more time …
We’re going to address the elephant in the room. Over the next 11 months we will be answering a question that we hear quite often, “What makes you different from other leading child sponsorship organizations?” The short answer is that most sponsorship organizations focus on one-to-one child sponsorship and Children’s HopeChest focuses on integrating those …
The 12 Areas of Community Transformation: a new educational series! Read More »
The Ministry Centers in Russia collectively serve as a “home away from home” for orphaned youth, young adults, and their young families. When orphaned children “graduate” from the orphanage at age 16, they are often left with no resources because they have not been taught how to survive outside of the orphanage when they are …
Fourteen Life Lessons from Belaya Kholunitsa Orphanage in Russia Read More »
In the history of cross-cultural missions and development work we often think of ourselves in the role of teacher. One thing I love about the approach of Children’s HopeChest is the desire to switch the paradigm and travel to build relationship and learn, instead of focusing on teaching and doing. I grew up as a …
