GOD'S KIDS Our Purpose ... To give orphans hope and a future. Our Mission ... That every orphan will know that Jesus loves them and cares for their needs. God’s Kids strives to demonstrate Christ’s love for orphans by raising the standard of care and accountability for orphanages around the world. We work to: * Provide quality nutrition, clean places to live, and adequate medical care for orphans. * Equip orphans with a Christian education and life skills. * Raise a generation of orphans prepared to be significant contributors to their society. Our Passion … Accountability. Establishing and maintaining systems that ensure orphans will receive the best possible care and donors will feel confident about the use of their gifts. Awareness. To raise the awareness of the world-wide orphan crisis. The number of orphaned children in the world has swelled to more than 130 million (more than the populations of Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia combined). AIDS, civil war, and corrupt governments have dealt crushing blows to children around the globe. Action. Calling people to action in order to raise the standard of care for orphans; mobilizing a broad network of individuals, churches and businesses to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of orphans. In all that we do, God’s Kids strives for excellence in obedience to God’s Word.

The Problem with Orphanages. People donate thousands of dollars every day hoping to help these children. Sadly, many of these well meaning donors are simply funding con artists and corrupt agencies. Neglected and abused children starve in ramshackle shelters while scam artists collect the money that was sent to help them. Dion Quinn founded God's Kids in 2002 in response to the needs of orphans worldwide. Dion's desire to help children was partly a result from his own childhood experience. God has given Dion a heart for children surviving in difficult circumstances. His deep compassion for children who have been abandoned or suffer the pain of homelessness spurred him to action. After years of donating much of his income to orphanages around the world, Dion set out to witness the lives of these children firsthand. He traveled to third-world countries in Africa and Southeast Asia and was disappointed to discover how his donations were being used. In many cases, his donations were not being used for their intended purpose. And when they were, inefficiency and ineffectiveness plagued these ill-equipped organizations. Dion found that no one was holding these orphanages accountable for the level of care provided to children. The Solution. God's Kids was created to help orphanages meet the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of orphans around the world through the God's Kids Network.[Picture shows Dr Ridge Burns, President] Visit the GOD'S KIDS WEBSITE

SOS CHILDREN -- THE WORLD'S LARGEST ORPHAN CHARITY SOS Children is an international charity that helps children with absolutely nowhere else to turn. We are a charity that stays long after the TV cameras have left and helps children until they are able to help themselves. SOS Children looks after children who have lost their parents: through war, famine, disease or poverty. The charity cares for street children, AIDS orphans, child soldiers and other children who have nothing and no-one. SOS Children can be cost effective because it has the best of both worlds. It is a UK charity, which is also a member of an international network of SOS associations. SOS Children is a UK registered charity based in Cambridge. Our board of trustees is responsible for ensuring the effectiveness of every penny sent from the UK. However, as part of SOS-Kinderdorf International, one of the world's largest and most respected charity groups, the charity avoids high project overhead costs; supervision, audit and international costs are shared across more than 130 member associations. If you wish, you can make a restricted donation which will be passed in its entirety to a specific project or village. Our charity's administration and other overheads are more than covered by unrestricted donations and tax recovered from those who have agreed to Gift Aid their donations. It is often difficult to know how to help children, who are alone and in need of support, but live so far away, and impractical to bring them all to us! For more than fifty years as the world's largest orphan charity, SOS Children has developed an approach based on building a community for children who really have no-one and on using this community as a centre for helping others. The charity provides homes, families and new mothers in a group of houses. This central community of between ten and fifteen new families of up to ten children each can then act as a focal point for other community needs: a local nursery or primary school for the wider local community, a medical and social centre, perhaps a disabled centre and sometimes other small community projects. Since many of our communities are built in some of the poorest and most vulnerable areas, to help support the orphaned children in the area, we are often best placed to takle both emergencies and ongoing social problems when they strike. Recently the sheer (actual and prospective) numbers of parentless families, where parents have died of HIV/AIDS, has meant that SOS Children has started "outreach" support, where a helper or nurse from a village will visit local child-led families in-situ two or three times a week with food, medicine and a little money. Some of the children we visit are as young as eight years old with several younger brothers or sisters and no adult for them anywhere except us (see Aids Africa Projects). These projects provide a massive increase in quality of life for children, and costs less than £10 a month per child. In total we have more than 60,000 children in our care in 450 villages around the world. In addition we also support nearly one million more orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children and their families through hundreds of schools, skills training centres, social support programmes and medical centres. SOS Children is a "long term" charity. When we take on children we typically look after them until they have grown independent. The main exceptions to this are where we manage to reunite children with their family when war has separated them (for example child soldiers and children in post-civil war Rwanda). In the UK, you can contact us at: SOS Children's Villages St Andrew's House 59 St Andrew's St Cambridge CB2 3BZ Tel: 01223 365589 Email: info@sos-uk.org.uk SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES SOS KINDERDORF DEUTCHLAND

ARMS OF LOVE Arms of Love establishes and operates homes that provide children with a loving family environment in which to grow and mature. To help simulate a family environment, "house parents" reside in each home and serve as substitute parents for the children. House parents are local Christian couples who have a special capacity for loving children. Typically, between 8-12 children reside in each home. House parents are assisted by other staff in caring for the children, which may include professionals with experience in social work and psychology, and assistants who help with cleaning, cooking, and laundry. Arms of Love is committed to caring for the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual needs of each child. Our objective is to help each child develop into a productive member of his or her community through education, vocational training, Christian discipleship, and the development of other life skills. Our programs include components such as personal counseling, field trips, sports and recreational activities, computer classes, one-on-one tutoring and vocational training. These activities combine with the Christian family environment to provide a much higher standard of care than will be found at most "orphanages." Currently we have orphanages in various third world countries around the world. CARING FOR HOMELESS STREET CHILDREN At the time children are received by Arms of Love, they all share one thing in common: they have been separated from their parents and they have no long-term living situation. The children have no place else to live and no one else to care for them. The children received into our children's homes come from a wide range of backgrounds. Some were completely orphaned, others abandoned. In some cases, a child lost one parent, and years later was abandoned by the other. Some of our children ran away from home, or were removed from their home, as a result of significant neglect or abuse. A significant number of the girls were victims of rape or incest; other children children were beaten by those who were supposed to love and care for them. Many of the children spent years living and sleeping on the streets; most were no longer in school and supported themselves by stealing, begging or working (e.g., gathering seashells, washing car windows, selling baked bread on street corners). Most of the children were severely abused physically or sexually, either in their home, living on the streets, or both. Oftentimes, the children were receiving temporary care from a relative or a "good Samaritan," but that person was unable or unwilling to care for them on a long-term basis. When children are first received by Arms of Love, they are usually received into a transition home while their background is investigated and while they adjust to living in a loving, structured environment. Those children who need care on a long-term or permanent basis are subsequently accepted into the children's home, and Arms of Love receives legal custody of those children from the appropriate government agency. Most of these children will continue to live with Arms of Love for the remainder of their childhood, but sometimes the government will award custody back to a biological relative if they can demonstrate their ability to properly care for the child. Arms of Love also receives children that have been so severely abused that they must be separated from their families. For example, the ministry that we sponsor in Morelia, Mexico, receives young street girls 8-15 years of age. Many of these girls were forced to engage in prostitution by their mothers, who were usually prostitutes themselves. In such circumstances, the ministry will work with the government to obtain custody of the children, even over the objection of their mothers, so the girls may live -- and heal -- in a healthy environment. In cases of significant abuse, reintegration with the family is sometimes feasible, but seldom occurs. LOCAL CHURCH-BASED MINISTRY One of our principal objectives is to encourage and equip local churches to care for children at risk in their own communities. Accordingly, while the children's homes are legally owned and operated by non-profit organizations in each country, each children's home established by Arms of Love is also connected with one or more local churches. The children and staff attend at least one of these churches, and other members of the churches become involved in the ministry in a variety of ways. The local church and the children's home benefit mutually from this relationship. The local church helps care for the children, oversees their spiritual development, and helps ensure the long-term duration of the project. The pastor provides spiritual care, teaching, and counseling, while other members of the church become involved on the basis of their personal gifts and vocations. The local church also benefits from the relationship, as it is envisioned and empowered to implement the Biblical mandate to care for the poor in its community. Ministry to children at risk can also contribute to the growth of the church, as children are re-integrated into the community as mature Christian adults and as the community witnesses God's compassion, mercy, and justice manifested in the project. LOCAL CHURCH-BASED MISSIONS Arms of Love partners with churches in the U.S. and the U.K. and facilitates their direct involvement in the projects. Our objective is not to create a ministry apart from the church, but to provide a means by which churches can become involved in projects that would otherwise be beyond their ability to establish and operate. By partnering with one another, churches can accomplish far more than they can standing alone. Arms of Love provides the means by which churches and individuals can pool their resources; a centralized system of accountability and oversight for the projects; and a worldwide network through which projects can benefit from the lessons and experience of others. Relationships with projects can be developed on many levels, and can include the sending of short-term ministry teams; sending longer-term volunteers; child sponsorships; and direct financial support. Such involvement can have a significant impact on a church's worldview and its vision and passion for the worldwide advancement of the kingdom. Visit Our Website: ARMS OF LOVE

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