Children at Risk: Solutions!!

• Relying on the Shepherd's Clinic in Baltimore for help with her diabetes, a single mom stays healthy enough to care for her 10-year old special needs son and her 8-year old mentally handicapped sister.
• By supporting national missionaries who operate schools and orphanages in Thailand, Christian Aid contributes to the well-being of many children who are fed, clothed and shown the love of Christ.
• In Benin, Peace was sold into slavery, enduring years of forced labor and sexual abuse. She was rescued by native missionaries who bought her and now care for her.
• In Uganda, Angelina recently died of AIDS, leaving 8 children. For a year before her death, she participated in an Opportunity International Trust Bank program and built up her failing fish business. Her children now have the chance to support themselves.
• Son of a functioning alcoholic mother, Dave began drinking at the age of 5. By junior high, he was a member of a street gang using hard core drugs and into devil worship. In May, Dave completed Baltimore's Helping Up Mission one-year residential program, having discovered peace in God and the strength to overcome his past.
• Listening attentively to the puppet show staged by Evangelizing Youth Ministries in Baltimore's Park Heights area, 4-year old Brian asked, "What do you mean about God's love?" Chris and Sylvia were glad to answer.
• In Ukraine, Anton and Sophia were abandoned by their drug addicted parents for more than a year before being taken to a church-based home called Genesis House.
• International Bible Society Romanian staff engage as many as possible of the 200,000 orphans and street children of the country with the good news of Jesus and food and clothes.
• In Ukraine, Anja 11, misses her mother who died, but she received comfort from reading about Jesus and his life, as she is befriended by missionaries teaching at a seminary in Kiev.
• "Why did it happen?" is still being asked in Beslan, a year after 369 people died due to terrorist attack on School #1. Children are still receiving spiritual and emotional help from missionaries to ease their deep pain.
• A Kyrgyz boy, Musa, accepted Jesus as His Savior and follows Him, although his Muslim family rejects him.
• Five-year old Joseph gets relief from the concrete playground of inner city Baltimore, when he visits the 100 acre Woodberry Crossing farm, to fish, to pet animals, and to learn about Jesus' love for him.
• Anna and Joe are being raised by their great-grandmother and attend the Baltimore Christian School. Their mother was beaten while they watched and is permanently living in a nursing home as a result.
• In the Middle East, a mother writes to SAT-7 (local Christian TV productions) of her gratitude about children's programming that draws her children away from programs full of evil and violence.
• In Ecuador, Ramiro enjoyed long hours with the hospital chaplain when he was hospitalized after a snake bite.
• In Haiti, Dadzi resides at Wings of Hope, a Christian home for physically and mentally challenged children, after being abandoned at birth.
• In a drug infested neighborhood of Baltimore, Kiena, a lively 8-year old grows up in an alley of dilapidated houses isolated from the environments most of us take for granted. When she arrives at Woodberry Crossing, she questions, "Is this a woods? I've always wanted to see a woods."
• A Christian lady rescued infant Efran, who had been abandoned on the street in Shell. Dr. John Doerfer cared for the baby who was suffering with pneumonia. When Dr. J returns to Ecuador in November as he does every year for 4 months, he will once again check up on Efran.

See also NV: Who Are Children At Risk? and Social Action Ministries at Central and Missions at Central.