Helping Children Worldwide

About HCW

Helping Children by Strengthening and Empowering Families and Communities

Financial Integrity

Reports, accountability, and stewardship.

The Problem is Worldwide

900 million children live in multidimensional poverty, without adequate water, food, shelter, safety, or healthcare.

50% of children in Sub-saharan Africa live in households surviving on less than $3 a day. 412 million of the world's children (20%) live in extreme poverty.

Poverty during childhood equals lifelong issues - poor health, shorter lifespans, and reduced opportunities that transmit poverty to the next generation.

Progress in ending poverty has stalled due to rising conflict, climate change, and global funding cuts.


So We Fight the Fire - Not the Smoke

Our Work

Programs, alliances, and networks organized by place and purpose.

Africa

Programs and alliances with local leaders in Sierra Leone and all across the continent of Africa.

North America

Partners, volunteers, supporters, allies, and mission team members in North America - including the US, Haiti, and Guatemala.

Global Networks

Field-shaping alliances and communities of practice.

HCW research and publications
Resources

Research, publications, media, curricula, and essential resources.

Our Impact

Impacts on children, families, resources, communities, and systems of care.

People

Stories of individual growth and change.

Resources

Data, research, publications, media, curriculum, worship materials, and essential resources.

Systems and Community

Empowerment approaches to development, locally led collaborations, respectful alliances, ethical practices, and sustainable progress.

Mission

Helping Children Worldwide.

Our goal is to help every child, everywhere, in every way we can. We work with local leaders, global alliances, and committed partners to strengthen families, communities, and improve systems of care.

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Impact

Our Theory of Change.

Effective alliances drive locally managed and owned responses, independently sustained outcomes, and permanent changes.

Understanding Alliance

Nine Hundred Million

Children.

Children are the first to suffer and suffer the worst from communicable disease, global conflict, natural disaster, and abject poverty. Children are without voice or agency. Their survival depends on champions – family, community, and systems of care.

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Africa

Alliances with locally led programs in Africa.

Featured programs, hospitals, family-strengthening work, systems of care, and community leadership across Africa.

Africa programs

North America

Supporting mission partners in North America.

Featured donors, allies, volunteers, supporters, mission team members, churches, and community partners.

North America

Global Networks

Connecting people, practice, and learning.

Featured work with international alliances, field learning, shared practice, and global networks.

Global Networks