ARK CHILDREN’S HOMES

Be A HERO partners with Ark Children’s Homes to provide them with operating expenses (through our Child Sponsorship Program), and raises funds for their building projects.

The Ark Children’s Homes were founded to meet a need in the province of Chimborazo in Ecuador to care for homeless children. Homeless children include orphans, lost kids, abused and neglected kids and children that have been abandoned. Many of our babies are found in cardboard boxes at the side of a road, in parks or outside public buildings.

The Ark was founded in 1996 when Ron and Glenda Allan and their family arrived in Riobamba, having felt that God had something for them to do there. After renting a home to live in, the Children’s Hospital directed them to a government social worker. When the Allans asked how they could help, the social worker responded quickly by saying the need was a home for the kids. The Allans met with officials at the Children’s court where the judge explained the two-year procedure to become legalized. Prepared to merely settle in and learn the Spanish language, the Allans were leaving the meeting when they were called into the office once again. The social worker handed Glenda a newborn baby, and asked them to care for him. Astounded, the Allans asked about the long waiting period of the legal procedure, but the court officials assured them that they would provide legal documents to receive children in the interim. The children arrived quickly after that. The Allans were still without furniture, finances or fluency in the language, but God was in control. The Allan family pulled together, working day and night as in the first 6 months, 14 newborns arrived as well as several street children. Since that chaotic beginning, the Allans have cared for hundreds of children.

In 2003, generous donations allowed the Ark to purchase a home and piece of property. The Ark Children’s Home has continued to not only meet the immediate need of rescuing children from their plight, also work to instil in the children an understanding of God’s love for them and their need to respond to his love. By healing the hurts and rejections of abandoned children, they have the potential to grow to be mature, godly Christian adults who will bring about change in the next generation.

For further information on Be A Hero’s projects with the Ark Children’s Home click here. If you would like to sponsor one of the children living at the Ark, click here. To visit the Ark Children’s Home website, go to www.arkchildrenshomes.com.