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Children found in vulnerable situations are rescued before being placed in one of our projects for ongoing help,evangelism, and discipleship. Our staff in both Uganda and Ghana are trained to spot abandoned & vulnerable children that may need help. Give to the Rescue Fund so we have funds on hand when a rescue is needed.
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Help fill the gap for children who have lost sponsors by giving to Child Sponsorship Gap Fund.
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Help children living in Kamwokya, a downtown slum area in the capital city of Kampala. Sponsor a child in this Hope Center to provide schooling and support through a weekly Bible club, or support the project to benefit all the children in the Hope Center.
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In Uganda, as in many African countries, children with albinism are often considered a curse. Every Child Ministries is showing them God's love in very practical ways, by providing school and public assemblies on albinism to further public understanding and acceptance, and by placing needy children with albinism in sponsorship programs where they experience friendship & acceptance. The Gospel permeates all these programs.
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Haven of Hope Academy (HHA) offers quality Christian education through Junior High School (US equivalent of 8th grade). HHA aims to help the next generation in Ghana prepare for the future through academic, skills and character development. HHA helps students break generational cycles of poverty by preparing them for careers in science, technology, engineering and math, among others. With a student body of over 350 and a large staff, students are able to get the attention they need.
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Community Connection connects US churches with ECM communities in Africa, with the goal of building and strengthening environments in which children are able to thrive. Over a ten-year period, church and community leaders work together to solve problems, encourage spiritual growth, provide training for pastors and teachers, meet the needs of vulnerable children, and empower families.
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Thousands of Sunday schools have been established in Africa through ECM Training. Previously, these churches had nothing at all to reach children, and we have seen firsthand the excitement of the children. These Sunday schools vary in size. ECM training is responsible for hundreds of thousands of children receiving weekly Bible training in Africa. Our goal is not to start Sunday schools of our own, but to empower local Bible-believing churches to reach children through any means possible.
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Child sponsorship is an incredibly effective tool for improving the lives of vulnerable children, but it does not come without limitations. One alternative that combats some of these limitations is our Family Empowerment Program.
Family Empowerment provides education, guidance, spiritual mentoring, training, medical help, and employment opportunities for entire families, not just one or two children.
Sponsors develop relationships with the parents as well as the children.
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Child sacrifice and ritual abuse is on the rise in Uganda. ECM is working with stakeholders to discern the causes and to prepare skits for public performance that can help parents protect their children. The project also gives spiritual, emotional and material support to survivors of ritual abuse, including those in our Lwengo Sponsorship Hope Center.
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The Volta Region in S.E.Ghana, like many rural areas in Africa, is full of schools willing & even anxious to allow gospel presentations. ECM's Community Evangelism program reaches out to these schools & the communities they serve with the gospel, presented via film media and personal evangelism. Our staff makes frequent visits to local schools & churches, and conducts follow up discipleship as needed. Your support of this project enables the good news to reach thousands of children every year!
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The Sogakope Hope Center helps kids in a community filled with ritual servitude. Sogakope, in the Volta Region of Ghana, had and continues to have, women enslaved at local shrines. Our work helping numerous women obtain freedom from this bondage, led to our work evangelizing in the community, which led to the start of this Hope Center for child sponsorship.
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Haven of Hope Children’s Home offers students a loving, homelike atmosphere for vulnerable children, especially those without a safe home environment. The Hope Center began in 2002 when ECM reached out to dozens of orphans and vulnerable children near the capital city of Accra, Ghana. As the children grew in age, a need to start a school arose (see Haven of Hope Academy). Assistance is available to children in crisis situations through child sponsorship.
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In Africa, most families don’t have the means to properly care for the special needs of a child with a disability. At ECM we have chosen to focus on God’s ability to restore hope in the lives of these children, and not on their disability. We work to improve quality of life by covering medical expenses, medical equipment, physical therapy, and respite care for parents. We educate families and communities regarding disabilities and how the needs of children with these special needs can be met.
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The deaf in Congo are often isolated, unable to attend school, unable to understand church services. They are largely unreached with the Gospel. In 2022 ECM discovered five groups or “communities” of deaf, most of them totally unevangelized and all floundering spiritually. God helped us to find two faithful hearing Christians who had learned sign language. We are excited to engage them in an effort to bring the Gospel to these beloved deaf people who have never heard.
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Medical needs abound in Africa, as they do around the world. From eye exams and eyeglasses to surgeries, medical equipment, and even nutritional supplements, ECM strives to provide these needs to show the love of Jesus in practical ways. This is often done through 1 to 3 day medical camps set up in a village or community, but sometimes ECM is made aware of a need that requires care as quickly as possible. When funds are already available, we can meet these needs more quickly and efficiently.
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Students who complete our General Sponsorship Program, either academically or vocationally, have the opportunity to join our Next Step program under "Business Start Up" and need additional financial assistance. We assist with capital, training, guidance and regular follow up visits throughout the first year of their business. Applications are thoroughly detailed and carefully reviewed before acceptance.
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When children get to secondary level in school, we help them decide what the best option is for them. That could be vocational school, finishing high school and going on to university, starting a business, or just completing high school. Secondary costs are much higher than primary, and sometimes child sponsors cannot cover the entire cost of their sponsored child's secondary education. Help kids transition from sponsorship to independence by giving to the Next Step fund.
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Students who complete General Sponsorship, either academically or vocationally, have the opportunity to join our Next Step program under "Mentorship". This category was designed to serve as a bridge (for up to 1 year) for our completed students who still need a bit more help to reach independence. While no traditional education or vocational training is provided - these students receive additional guidance from the staff and vital mentorship in the decisions they face regarding their future.
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Students who complete our General Sponsorship Program after they graduate high school have the opportunity to join our Next Step program under "University" and need additional financial assistance to cover their tuition. This is why we have built our Scholarship Fund. Each student in need of tuition assistance applies annually for a scholarship. These students receive guidance and mentorship throughout their education and helps move them on towards independence and success.
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Sponsoring a vulnerable child is a great way to directly impact a life! By sponsoring a child, you can help ensure that they stay in school, get medical help when needed, learn valuable life skills, receive encouragement, and hear the gospel! There is no better, more personal way for you to connect with and support the needs of a child! For a commitment of just $37 per month you can provide priceless hope for a needy child.
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The Biriwa Hope Center helps stop child trafficking at the source. Biriwa is a known location for child trafficking. A sponsored child almost never gets trafficked. Provide education as well as spiritual discipleship to a child's life.
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Many teachers in rural African schools lack the training necessary for effectiveness and longevity in their role as an educator. Training is available locally for about $370 per year, and the entire three year program leading to certification costs only about $1,110. Your gift today allows ECM to continue to bring hope to children through programs like Teacher Training.
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Every Child Ministries' Hope Fund is our Where Needed Most Fund. This fund supplements all our specific funds when they are short, ensuring that all our programs and projects can meet their budgets. Giving to The Hope Fund brings the flexibility to use funds where they can best help!
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ECM's survey of Kinshasa churches showed that fewer than half had any program to attract and train children's workers. ECM has a long history of providing effective training for children's workers in Africa. We need funds to provide much-needed training for children's leaders in Congo, enabling many churches to start programs to reach the children and youth of their areas. In many areas, we can train a teacher and enable a church to start a children's program for about $80.
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The Gayaza Hope Center helps many children whose families are in crisis situations for various reasons. The children meet weekly for Bible teaching, fun and exercise, and help with schoolwork. The children have learned a variety of other skills too, including gardening and then cooking the food they raised, cakemaking, beadmaking, choreographed singing, and various art projects. Several children with albinism are also being helped by the project.
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Kamwokya (pronounced kuh-moh-chuh) is a downtown slum area in Kampala, Uganda, and is home to many ethnic populations including refugees who moved from the north when Joseph Kony’s LRA bands were terrifying the countryside. In Kamwokya, ECM helps vulnerable children, including those with albinism, stay in school or receive vocational training through child sponsorship, seeking to reach these children and youth with the Gospel and to help provide developmental opportunities for them.
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ECM's work in Tororo began in early 2015, when one of our ECM staff members visited her home community and discovered several children with albinism that were in desperate need of help! Just like children everywhere, they want to be loved, they want to have friends and they want to go to school! Unfortunately, children with albinism are mistreated, discriminated against, and at times even abused (see Albinism Outreach). With your support of this Hope Center, their simple dreams will come true!
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Orphans near Gulu, Uganda are living in abject poverty. Since the end of the war (Josph Kony), the area now blooms with well-kept gardens, dug by hand with hoes. But only a small percentage of families can afford to send their children to school, even though education is free in Uganda. They cannot afford even the required cost of uniforms & school supplies. Most of the children are slowly recovering from PTSD and are gradually beginning to find glimpses of joy and find hope for the future.
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The Karamoja Homeland Project is a direct result of ECM’s goal to stop trafficking where it starts. Recognizing that it is more effective to stop the flow of trafficking at the source than it is to only help the children who have already been trafficked, ECM began the Karamoja Homeland Project. As our workers address the root causes of child trafficking in the area, we hope to also show each child and family the personal love of Jesus Christ.
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Karamoja is a region in the northeastern corner of Uganda, a land of pastoralists and devastating poverty. Karimojong children are sold to masters to use them to beg on the streets of Kampala, taking all their earnings and treating them as slaves. This Hope Center evangelizes and intervenes on behalf of child beggars displaced to Kampala, placing them in boarding schools during the school year to keep them off the street.
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In Naigobya, we are using village schools as an avenue for reaching out to communities with the love of Jesus. Through the school we can reach out not only to the teachers and students, but also to the church, the parents, the orphans, village leadership, and ultimately the entire community. Our vision is to develop a Christ-centered, self-sustaining community where multiple generations thrive by living life together. Our mission is to provide spiritual development & community empowerment.
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Vocational training is part of many of ECM’s programs for street youth and orphans & vulnerable youth. Skills that our youth have learned are automotive body work, baking/catering, carpentry, dressmaking, electrical, and hair dressing. The vocational option may be chosen in cases where a youth is older and has missed a lot of school, or does not pass the state exams which allow students to go on academically, or simply because vocational skills best suit a youth’s interests and God-given gifts.
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We can take clear, healthy water for granted. Africa, if a well is not near, the choice may be drinking dirty, contaminated water or walking miles to the nearest well and carrying heavy jugs of water back to your home. ECM has provided training for some of our staff to drill wells, but also hires companies that specialize in the work to drill a well in a community. Both provide needed clean water that many community members can enjoy for continued good health.
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In Koforidua, Ghana, ECM has long had a ministry to teen street boys called load porters. These boys carry people's belongings from downtown shops to their vehicles or homes. They often live on the street and meet together with ECM staff on Sunday mornings to worship. ECM recently implemented a Saturday Bible Club. Here, Bible lessons are taught, as well as other things like hygiene and life skills. Spiritual guidance and counseling are also provided.
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