"The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed;
those who help others are helped."
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Helping Children Worldwide Celebrates the CRC Case Managers on World Social Work Day 2019
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Helping Children Worldwide celebrates World Social Work Day (March 19) by highlighting the excellent work of the CRC’s Case Management Team. The CRC is focused on continuing to provide the best support possible to children and families in its programs, now through a case management system that is growing stronger every day. Plans to continue to build capacity include installation of a case management database, ongoing professional dialogue with others in the field, and a Case Managers’ Learning Collaborative project launching this July.
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Mercy Hospital Increases Collaboration with Local Health Centers
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Mercy Hospital is making a concerted effort to strengthen connections among decision-makers at area health facilities. Since his arrival in the fall of 2016, Mercy’s Hospital Administrator, Jinnah Lahai, has held a series of meetings with other health professionals, and Dr. Amara has joined in these efforts since his arrival in early 2018. Sierra Leone is a small country with fewer than 200 doctors, and so most of them know each other. Mercy’s Dr. Amara already had strong ties to the health system in Bo through personal and professional connections, and he is utilizing those connections to increase collaboration. Mr. Lahai and Dr. Amara are dispelling the stereotypical view of some that ‘other’ hospitals are “competition” by deliberately reaching out and seeking connection. The new Bo District Medical Officer,
Dr. Carson-Marsh,
shares Dr. Amara’s views that working together makes more sense than working alone.
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Helping Children Worldwide is hosting our first annual policy conference,
Rising Tides: The Future of Global Missions
, on September 6-7, 2019 in Chantilly, VA. We will explore how we can lift all boats in the fields of child welfare, public health, and short term missions with programs that raise the tides in these fields. This event is intended for anyone and all who are interested.
We are seeking panelists with with experience and expertise in:
- Global Public Health and Development, especially those with expertise in maternal and infant health
- Program Sustainability and Community Development in Developing Countries, especially those with experience in community development in developing countries
- How to do short-term missions meaningfully and ethically, especially those with experience in the missions field, and those who have experience preparing and sending missioners
- The evolving role of child welfare programs in the care of orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) as a part of the movement to deinstitutionalize, especially those with experience in the care of OVC, experts in case management, and those with experience with the role of TBRI training in global OVC settings
Opportunities are available for panelists to participate via teleconference. If you or someone you know are interested in participating in one or more of these panels, please email us at
support@helpingchildrenworldwide.org
by May 15, 2019
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We are pleased to announce that Mohamed Nabieu (Nabs) has accepted a position with Helping Children Worldwide. We know you are as excited as HCW to have the opportunity to work with him in this new role. Nabs will be our point of contact for international programs related to child welfare, including the Child Rescue Centre. He will work with Laura Horvath as part of her program support team, providing subject matter expertise, participating in the capacity building work we do with our partners in Sierra Leone, overseeing the child sponsorship program in the United States, and sharing the story of the CRC and HCW’s important work to benefit the most vulnerable children in the world.
As program liaison, he will be regularly meeting with our church partners, future development partners and supporters. In fact, he hit the ground running with the same enthusiasm and professionalism he has shown throughout his career. He will be at three events this month, two in Charleston, South Carolina, and another in Colleyville, Texas, joining partner churches Bethel and First UMC Colleyville, and speaking to his experiences and the importance of international support for child welfare programs in Sierra Leone.
Nabs has been part of the HCW family for years, working for our international partners in Sierra Leone. In his leadership role as Director of the Child Rescue Centre (CRC), he was instrumental in growing the sponsorship program to provide education and health care to 600 students throughout the country, and initiated many of the changes that caused the government and several international NGOs to recognize it as a model program for the care of vulnerable children in that country.
To those of you who have been with us from the start, Nabs is best known for his personal journey. His relationship to HCW goes back to his childhood, when the CRC was opened as an orphanage to shelter 40 homeless children in the last two years of the brutal civil war that ravaged Sierra Leone. He lived at the CRC again during the Ebola lockdown, to teach at the School of Champions. He is an example of the good that comes from international collaborations on mission, and an expert on how we can learn, build on experience, and adapt to changing circumstances in our program models and operations.
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Should you stay or should you go ...to Bo?
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There is still time to apply for the October 2019 mission team! You will have the opportunity to engage with and support the hardworking staff at the Child Rescue Centre and Mercy Hospital. Sponsors of CRC students will have the opportunity to visit the student they sponsor.
Click the button below for more information, meeting dates, and application deadlines!
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When was the last time you wrote to your CRC student?
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Now is your chance! The next UMVIM team will be traveling to Bo in May and they'll be carrying
your
letters with them! To make sure your letter gets there with the May team, please make sure HCW has your letter no later than April 30.
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ICYMI: the latest HCW Magazine!
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In case you missed it: Helping Children Worldwide's Winter 2019 Magazine is here! "Tackling Epidemics" provides stories of survival from Mercy Hospital's HIV/AIDS program and addresses how the CRC is leading the transition to family-based care in Sierra Leone.
Check it out online today or
email us
to request a copy!
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Helping Children Worldwide Earns Top Ratings
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Helping Children Worldwide is very proud to share that we have been awarded the
highest possible ratings
by Charity Navigator and Guidestar, two organizations that evaluate non-profit organizations for financial accountability and transparency, and commitment to industry best practices.
These accolades are not taken lightly. Our
4-star rating from Charity Navigator
sets HCW apart from our peers and demonstrates our trustworthiness and dedication to our mission. Only a quarter of charities rated by Charity Navigator receive the distinction of a 4-star rating. We earned our
2019 Platinum Seal of Transparency from Guidestar
by being transparent through sharing basic contact and organizational information; in-depth financial information; qualitative information about goals, strategies, and capabilities; and quantitative information about results and progress toward our mission.
Helping Children Worldwide is committed to being transparent and responsible and we are honored to receive recognition for our achievements!
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Do you have a new or gently-used, high quality, point-and-shoot digital camera that you would be willing to donate? The Child Rescue Centre and Mercy Hospital are in need of new cameras so they can take great photos of the students, activities, and events at the CRC and during village outreaches! Can you help?! Email us at
support@helpingchildrenworldwide.org
no later than April 15. Thank you!
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**This is just a sample image not an exact example of the item we are looking for**
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Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen
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