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Maternal Health is an orphan prevention strategy
Enduring Mission
We express our enduring mission to help children worldwide, our organizational identity, and our ethics through the mission statement:
“Helping Children Worldwide by Strengthening and Empowering Families and Communities.”
Helping Children Worldwide’s enduring and timeless mission is more than aspirational. It is our name – Helping Children Worldwide. Our allies are found in 31 countries on four continents where we engage together in work to help children worldwide through global collaboration.
Our mission has never changed, and our organizational identity has not waivered. But other things changed so that we could faithfully meet our organizational mission and accurately express our organizational identity.
And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9‘
How organizational expression and mission practices can change in an enduring mission.
Upstream solutions to prevent orphanhood and instill child resiliency become the better strategies.
Evolving mission expression and practices create a ripple effect of continuous change.
Relationships should inform our work and honor our enduring mission.
Organizational Expression is the way we faithfully express our enduring identity.
Organizational practices are the specific activities undertaken in carrying out an enduring mission. Mission and identity are fixed, expression and practice evolve.
Practices naturally changed over time in response to emerging needs, local leadership, strategic priorities, available resources, and organizational learning.
Other programs grew naturally from the ethics of helping children – including other war-affected children in Sierra Leone.
Unsurprisingly, balancing our alliances with existing collaborations in Sierra Leone caused other organizational expression and practice changes.
This is a journey we are still on and we are already on the cusp of another change, leading where we thought we had fallen behind. We continue to push for thoughtful, balanced alliances, with obligation and responsibility appropriately distributed.