Child Sponsorship | International Child Care Ministries | Days for Girls | Kenya

Thrive Kenya Supports Days for Girls

by AfricaBlogKenya

Thrive, a group of young women in Kenya who are raising awareness of gender based violence, human trafficking and ways to connect survivors to services, has been traveling to International Child Care Ministries schools to talk with and educate girls about Days for Girls (menstrual health and sanitation).

 

Thrive is a group of young women in based in Nairobi, Kenya who are raising awareness of gender based violence, human trafficking and ways to connect survivors to services. (Top row from left: Yvonne, Lillian, Violet, and Kathleen. Bottom row from left Jayne, Pheliciters, and Naomi. Naomi, Violet, Yvonne, Kathleen, and Lillian are ICCM alumnae.)

 

Violet reports, “The Days for Girls was such a nice experience. The girls were very excited to receive the kits, which are beautiful. We taught them how to count their days so they could be prepared in advance. Everyone concentrated fully as was evident from their eye contact and facial expressions.”

 

 

“Such training is vital. They could share their views from their perspectives and they asked burning questions. The training is important, providing facts that dispel misleading, inaccurate information gained through friends. Some parents do not share with their children the whole process, how and why it occurs. In many cases the girls are not comfortable sharing with their parents what happens in their bodies.”

 

 

“Having such training is crucial because the girls count on us as their big sisters. The schools were supportive. Some teachers came to assist us.

The Days for Girls kits will help the girls to fully attend classes and this improves their performance. We are thankful for the hands that prepared the Days for Girls kits.”

 

 

 

Without a solution to manage their monthly cycles:

  • 1 in 10 girls in Sub-Saharan Africa…

  • 113 million adolescent girls in India…

  • 30% of girls in rural Brazil…

will miss school this year. (Days for Girls)

 

“Around the world, girls and women resort to using rags, mattress stuffing, banana leaves, feathers, and even cow dung to manage their menstruation. Days for Girls provides a safe, beautiful, washable, and long-lasting alternative — along with vital health education.”
— DaysforGirls.org

Support Days for Girls

 

ICCM supports Days for Girls efforts by distributing handmade kits to Thrive who educates and supports girls in Kenya.

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When a Sponsored Child Gives Back

by AsiaBlogPhilippines

Achiever. Leader. Teachable. Dependable. These are the qualities that define an 18-year-old ICCM scholar, Sheila May Bayanban.

She has been sponsored for 11 straight years, and while being a sponsored child she has become a role model to the younger generation in their hostel in Saloy, Calinan, Philippines.

 

She expresses how thankful she is for International Child Care Ministries and her sponsor for being a great help in her life for 11 years.

Without them, she would not be able to study in high school because of financial constraints.

In return, Sheila has been a good steward of God’s blessings.

 

Since 7th grade, she has always been one of the Top 10 in her class.

She is also a leader in the hostel and at school.

The young achiever shares how the training and the rules in the hostel has molded her to be self-controlled, disciplined, and confident.

She willingly observed the rules because she knew that they help her grow and become better.

 

Being one of the eldest occupants in the hostel, she is also one of the facilitators.

Sheila advises from her own experience that once you are a leader, you need to be patient and understanding.

You also need to act first so that others will follow.

How she has dealt with the children in the hostel has taught her to adjust and be confident in dealing with her classmates at school.

 

 

Above all, she never forgets to acknowledge God for being the source of knowledge and wisdom, and for touching her sponsor’s heart.

 

 

$1/day can change a child’s life forever.

sponsor a child today.

 

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2020 Vision Update: December 2018

by Blog

Last December, ICCM launched our 2020 Vision campaign, believing God for a major step forward in our ability to impact thousands of children’s lives. Our faithful sponsors and donors have gotten us off to a strong start. Thank you!

We thought you’d like a brief update as 2018 draws to a close.

 

2020 Vision is a three-year focus to strategically invest in three key areas:

01: Developing Our Global Team

02: Leveraging Our Technology

03: Completing Our Capital Projects

 

Developing Our Global Team

In 2018, three groups of leaders gathered for vision casting, team building, learning and strategic planning. Southeast Asian leaders met in the Philippines, seven Regional Coordinators from around the globe met in the U.S., and Latin American leaders met in Colombia.

When our leaders experience the power of being on a unified team, they are energized for the sacrificial work of administering the program and blessing the children. Equipped and motivated leaders end up benefiting the children in much greater ways.

 

Leveraging Our Technology

Thanks to your 2020 Vision gifts, we’ve finally upgraded from our 19-year-old database and website to a much better software and website, connected to each other.

You can create an account, view your child’s photo, birth date and other data and write a letter to your child. You cam make an online contribution and check to see your prior giving. You can also browse our new website with its many informative pages, one for each country. If you have friends or family members who don’t yet sponsor with ICCM, you can send them to the beautiful new site to find a child who desperately needs their support.

 

Completing Our Capital Projects

Buconyori Boys Boarding School in Kenya, now in it’s second year of operation, has added classrooms and dorms for its growing enrollment of students.

Davao City, the Philippines, Door of Hope Project had experienced a tragic fire in which a beloved young woman was killed. A memorial gift accomplished the first phase; 2020 Vision funds are being used to build a second story and make the space useable for the wonderful Holistic Child Develoment program at Door of Hope.

In Paraguay, an adjacent property to our Juan Wesley School became available to expand our preschool and outdoor play space. We were able to seize the opportunity to purchase and renovate this strategic property.

Alem Tena, Ethiopia now has a functional high school for the first time ever. The bright young learners are excited!

 

Will you help use finish strong for our first year of the 2020 Vision?

A generous year-end gift will keep the 2020 Vision on track and position us to face the New Year’s opportunities and challenges. These investments are bearing fruit all over the world. Through child sponsorship and ongoing gifts, children who had no hope of an education are thriving and growing. Vulnerable children are protected. Hungry little ones are being nourished. Thousands of them experience the joy of learning, hope for living and the love of Jesus.

Thank you for caring!

Thank you for investing in children through ICCM.

God bless you!

 

– International Child Care Ministries Staff

Brazil: Ninth Grade Graduation

by AmericasBlogBrazil

#ICCMBrazil 🇧🇷 Ninth grade graduation was held in the (miracle) gymnasium at our ICCM school in Monte Santo, Brazil. Ninth grade is the conclusion of “Fundamental” education in Brazil. Although it is not a certainty yet, we plan for many of these ninth graders to be able to continue their education in the tenth grade as of February.

Almost all the pieces are in place with the Government of Bahia for the school to begin offering tenth grade in 2019. (Continued prayer appreciated on this point.)

Posted by International Child Care Ministries on Monday, December 17, 2018

 

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The Cost of Fighting Hunger

by BlogBurundiCreative AccessHaiti
Two students being fed lunch at school in Haiti

 

Haiti
Half the population of Haiti is undernourished, earning less than $1 a day. ICCM provides  school lunches for about 20,000 children, both sponsored and unsponsored.

A meal for a child in Haiti is 25 cents.
A $10 gift will serve 40 children.

 

Dairy producing water buffalo

India
In India, 38% of children are stunted due to  chronic undernourishment. Gifts to the India Rice Fund supply essential nutrition to children living in residential care and to HIV/AIDS-impacted children in ICCM centers.

A meal for a child in India is 45 cents.
A $20 gift will serve 44 children.

 

Production of Busoma, a hearty grain produced in Burundi

Burundi
Donations bring relief to one of the world’s hungriest countries through the distribution of Busoma, a highly beneficial whole food cereal.

A meal of Busoma for a child is 11 cents a meal.
A $10 gift will serve 91 children.

This program receives financial assistance through other sources as well. Of the three food funds this fund is well supported.

 

Want to help eliminate hunger around the world? Click below to fight hunger.

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ICCM Haiti Projects

by AmericasBlogHaiti

 

We are extremely excited to premiere a new video about our #ICCMHaiti Food Fund 🇭🇹 and our partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects. Please share! 💚

Give to the Haiti Food Fund: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiFood
Give to Haiti Tree Projects: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiTrees
Give to Haiti Animal Projects: http://bit.ly/ICCMHaitiAnimals

Video: Nick Beardslee

Rex Bullock Craig Erickson Iccm-Haiti Sponsorship

Posted by International Child Care Ministries on Tuesday, December 11, 2018

 

The short-term, urgent need is for school lunches provided by the Haiti Food Fund. Just 25 cents feeds a child!

To invest in longer-term solutions, you can give to our Haiti Tree Projects, in which we’re planting tens of thousands of fruit trees and other plants in our schools and at the homes of sponsored children in partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects.

We now also have managed Animal Projects, which demonstrate new ways of raising goats and chickens to benefit the school children and their families, as well as the environment.

Click on the video, share it widely and help us raise critically needed funds to come alongside Haiti in its chronic food insecurity.