Tangible Deliverables All God’s Children helps provide food, shelter, medical care, spiritual training, and education to almost 200 children at Hogaran, an orphanage in Honduras. Most of the children are placed by INFA, the Honduran government agency responsible for finding homes for children in these circumstances. By Honduran law, children placed in any orphanage are nonadoptable and depend on the home throughout their entire childhood. All God’s Children provides sponsorship programs to match people to individual children or donors are welcome to provide a one time monetary gift of any size directed at a specific need. Current projects include creation of a business to provide employment for the older children of Hogar and to help raise money, and the building of transitional housing for those at the stage where they are going to university or obtaining employment. Competitiveness & Efficiency of the Delivery System All God’s Children pays $0 in salaries, it does not have any paid employees. The organization is headed by one non-paid individual. Work teams of adult and teen volunteers travel to Hogar to help construct and improve living facilities. Financial Efficiency All God’s Children has administrative and fundraising expenses of only 2%, leaving 98% to go directly into the programs and projects where the money is really needed. In 2006, All God’s Children provided program services totaling $683, 016. Accountability to Clients and Investors All God’s Children is accountable to the clients and investors in the organization. The president of the organization travels to Honduras numerous times a year with teams of volunteers. All donors are not only welcome but invited to travel to Honduras to see what All God’s Children has accomplished. It is also audited by a third party firm and has been a four star charity on Charity Navigator for over three years. Commitment and Plans to Achieve Sustainable Results All God’s Children is committed to achieving sustainable results. At Hogar the children become a family, living and working together. They embrace the values that will enable them to grow into strong adults who will make a difference in their communities. The children share the chores and learn important job skills such as sewing, woodworking, carpentry and welding. In their late teens they are given the opportunity to either get a job or go to university. Some of the girls have become seamstresses, sales girls, or gone to beauty school. Seven of the children are attending university and living in townhouses that were donated by a church raising funds for All God’s Children. One of the original girls that was cared for and raised at Hogar has now become the onsite preschool teacher. Volunteerism/Recruitment Volunteers that support All God’s Children are mostly missionary groups, church groups, and families. Groups from all over the United States and some from Canada travel to the orphanage to help out, usually for a week at a time. Some have been going for over ten years now and are now bringing their own children along so that a new generation of volunteers is emerging to continue the work of All God’s Children.
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