• BRAZIL

  Uberlandia

• BURMA

  Tachilik

• BURUNDI

  Bujumbura

• CAMBODIA

  Poipet

• COLOMBIA

  Bogota

• D.R. OF THE CONGO

  Goma

• ECUADOR

  Riobamba

• ETHIOPIA

  Adama 1 Adama 2 Addis Ababa 1 Addis Ababa 2 Addis Ababa 3 Addis Ababa 4

• GHANA
  • Accra
  • Various Cities
• INDIA

  Telpura Chennai Pedong Sikkim

• INDONESIA

  Sentani, Papau Merauke, Papau

• KENYA

  Nairobi Nyahururu

• LIBERIA

  Ganta Ganta

• MALAWI

  Chikwawa

• MEXICO

  Colima Tecate Puerto Escondido

• MOZAMBIQUE

  Multiple Refugee Camps

• PHILLIPINES

  Castillejos Davao

• ROMANIA

  Brasov

• SIERRA LEONE

  Freetown

• SOUTH AFRICA

  Mossel Bay Port Elizabeth

• SWAZILAND

  Bethany

• THAILAND

  Mae Sai Pattaya

• UGANDA

  Kampala 1 Kampala 2 Kampala 3 Gulu1 Namugongo Gulu2

• ZAMBIA

  Kitwe

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City: Poipet
Orphanage: Cambodian Hope Children’s Home
Number of Children: 48

Description:

Cambodian Hope Children’s Home will become a place of refuge for orphans, street children and those rescued from the sex trade. A full residential facility is planned including dorms, a school, and a vocational school – a safe home where a bright future can begin.

City: Bogota
Community Care Homes: 40 are planned
Number of Children: 15 children each

Description: These Community Care Houses will provide the children with a safe place to be cared for, and educated, rescuing them from long hours either locked in their hot, tiny shanty, or neglected and available to predators and danger on the streets. In these slum areas, the day care provided for pre-schoolers and recreational after-school clubs for school age children which will reduce the chance of them getting involved in gangs and drug culture.

City: Goma
Orphanage: Mamma Jeanne's Orphanage
Number of Children: 250

Description: Since 1993, Mamma Jeanne and her staff have cared for 779 children. 295 have been reunited with their relatives, 234 have left (grown up, been taken in by foster families, or died), and 250 are at the home. Of the 779 children, 78 have been victims of rape, and 6 have been infected by HIV/AIDS. The goals of Mamma Jeanne's home are to work to reunite separated children with relatives, care for the children physically, and provide them with love and counseling to aid in their healing after severe trauma (witnessing murder, rape, beatings, etc.), and to provide the children with an opportunity to attend school.

City: Riobamba
Orphanage: ARK Children's Homes
Number of Children: 48 children living at the Home; support of an additional 300 not living on premises

Description: In 1996, ARK was founded when the Allan family went to Riobamba from Kelowna, BC to help the children of Ecuador. They have grown tremendously and now have an orphanage on land that they own, their own school, as well as a baby house. They have seen over 300 children come through their doors, and they continue to support these children as if they were a part of their family.

City: Adama
Orphanage: Almaz Yehitsanat Masadegia Dirijit
Number of Children: 20

Description: Established in 2004, Almaz Yehitsanat Masadegia Dirijit ("Almaz") is a ministry working with street and orphaned children. It’s objective is to reduce and alleviate the plight of orphans and street children in Nazareth (Adama) and to improve the social development of the community. Run by a local couple, Ashenafi and Almaz Haile, this orphanage provides basic necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention, as well as offering vocational training.

City: Adama
Orphanage: Remember the Poorest Community
Number of Children: 200

Description: RPC supports an orphanage that has approximately 200 children ranging in age from 2 to 15 years old. These children attend school which is also run by the church. The children are provided with basic necessities such as food, medical care, clothing, and psychological services. Rehabilitation is the end goal so that the children may have a chance to successfully join the community and to become self-sustaining adults.

City: Addis Ababa
Orphanage: Ebenezer Community Aid Organization
Number of Children: 50 currently supported; 150 waiting to receive support

Description: Located in the Kotebe area of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Ebenezer Community Development and Aid Organization ("ECDAD") is a humanitarian organization that helps street children and AIDS orphans within the community. Currently, ECDAD operates a program called Prevention, Rehabilitation, Connection and Integration ("PRCI") which provides basic necessities for needy children.

Description: The Maranatha Gospel Ministry ("Maranatha") was established in 1993 to foster the growth and development of female street children in Ethiopia. Originally, it was only able to offer the children lunch on a daily basis because it did not have a facility. Now they have two homes and care for both boys and girls. Maranatha's goal is to place children with a family. Most, if not all, of the families are poor, so the Ministry continues to provide basic necessities for the children such as food, clothing, medical care, and educational aid.

City: Accra
Orphanage: Agape Children's Home
Number of Children: 90

Description: The Agape Children's Home is a full-service residential facility with the sole purpose of caring for orphans in Africa. The children have lost both parents and have nowhere else to go. Many of these orphans have not been to school, and are sick and malnourished. Most have not had the opportunity to hear the Gospel and have never attended church. All of the orphans are given their own bed, food, medical care, and education at a private school. They are loved and cared for by Christian staff.

City: Various
Project: Libraries

Be A HERO is partnering with Smile Africa to ship a 40’ container to Ghana, containing over 40,000 books, 50 computers, barrels of dehydrated soup mix, and some medical supplies. These goods will be distributed to 10 communities to assist them in setting up Public Libraries.

City: Telpura
Community Centre: New Life Community Centre

Description: This new Community Centre will provide an impoverished, rural village with a gathering place for community events, medical clinics, literacy, health and other educational programs, a library, and also function as a retreat centre.

City: Chennai
Orphanage:
Number of Children: projected 35 - 50

Description: Presently under construction, this will be a girl’s home for orphans and other homeless girls in Chennai, operated by Operation Unreached. The family-style home will protect the girls from a miserable future of abuse and prostitution.

City: Pedong
Orphanage: Hope Children’s Home
Number of Children: 17

Description: Opened in 1997, this Home in the north of India provides care for orphans. They also operate a Jeep Taxi business, to help support the home.

City: Sikkim
Orphanage: Namchi Children’s Home
Number of Children: 7

Description: This small home is in a remote, mountainous region of the northernmost state in India.

City: Sentani, Papua
Orphanage: Mem's Complex
Number of Children: 42

Description: Mem's Complex is a community center that began ten years ago when the Yosts started a rehab center in Sentani. The rehab center has grown into an entire community developmen complex with a rehab center, a women's crisis shelter, a children's shelter, a health clinic, and several businesses to help employ those living in the shelters. The children's shelter originally began to help house some of the children that came along with those entering either rehab or the crisis shelter. Each child receives love, shelter, clothing, food, medical attention, and an education.

City: Merauke, Papua
Orphanage: New Family Home (part of Mem's Complex)
Number of Children: 13

Description: Mem's Complex is community center that began ten years ago when the Yosts started a rehab center in Sentani. The rehab center has grown into an entire community development complex with a rehab center, a women's crisis shelter, a children's shelter, a health clinic, and several businesses to help employ those living in the shelters. The children's shelter originally began to help house some of the children that came along with those entering either rehab or the crisis shelter. Each child receives love, shelter, clothing, food, medical attention, and an education. The New Family Home is part of this complex, providing an opportunity for orphans to have a family environment.

City: Nairobi
Orphanage: Bethlehem Children's Home
Number of Children: 80

Description: The Bethlehem Community Centre (BCC) was established in 1990. It is situated in the Embakasi Division of Nairobi, in the Soweto informal settlement of Kayole. Soweto is mainly inhabited by people displaced from other slum areas of Nairobi. In common with most Nairobi informal settlements, Soweto has no water, electricity or sanitation. The main focus of the Centre is looking after destitute children, many of whom are orphans of HIV/AIDS or conflict. Soweto has a high Congolese refugee population. All workers at the Centre are volunteers. The Centre runs a primary school with about 450 children. About 80 of the children, who are orphaned, live permanently in the Center's two boarding houses. An additional 100 children are fed under a school-feeding program.

City: Nyahururu
Orphanage: Heroes of the Nation Children's Home
Number of Children: 320

Description: Heroes of the Nation provides a home for children at risk. These children may be orphaned or either unable to live at home or be supported by their parents. These Children's Homes are in the form of orphanages, single-family housing, or hospitality centers. The children are provided with housing, education, and health-care. Education and training is culturally relevant and is centered on developing leaders for their societies. Our basic children's objective is to provide them with the fundamental necessities for a fulfilling life. We provide them with a family structure that includes parental care and education. We train them to become both productive members of society, and leaders in society as well. To accomplish this, we first get children off the streets and into homes where they feel they belong. The love, education, and community we provide is more readily accepted and integrated into their world-view.

City: Ganta
Orphanage: Children's Center
Number of Children: 100

Description: The Children's Center cares for 15 malnourished young children at a time. There is also a program for 42 foster families that have taken in 84 orphaned children that come out of our Mercy Project. We help these families with their children by giving them food and medication, if required, as well as paying for their education. We also work with these families by helping them earn money through our business development program with micro loans, or by hiring them in our own business for training. Our focus on building up the economy is very strong.

City: Ganta, Liberia

School: Hope Academy
Number of Children: 582 students (currently)

Description: Hope Academy provides education to over 580 impoverished children in a rented facility.  Be A HERO has partnered with Hope for the Nations to complete construction of their new, 15 classroom facility that will eventually facilitate education for 1000 children. Another vital component to this Hope Village is Mercy House, which cares for severely malnourished children, feeding and providing medical care until the children regain their health and can return home.

City: Chikwawa
Orphanage: Hope Village Malawi
Number of Children: 9

Description: Community outreach, Day care (60 children), and residential care provide help for the orphans in Malawi. Hope Village also includes a clinic, a feeding program (for 77 children), and a maize mill. One of the key components of the Hope Village Malawi is their formation of 8 community committees, providing leadership and small loans for various income-producing projects to benefit the Home and the communities.

City: Colima
Orphanage: Hogar de Amor
Number of Children: 100

Description: Hogar de Amor was founded with the desire to help orphans, homeless and mistreated children, giving them all the support that they should normally have in their own home - support not only in their physical needs but also in their spiritual and emotional needs as well. With this in mind, we provide a couple to take care of 15 children by supplying them with all their basic needs such as love, security, acceptance, and identity, which will enable them to develop normally. Every child we receive brings feelings which are contrary to those previously mentioned, which gives us a big task to help them to trust in God, in themselves, and in those around them. What is of most importance to us is that they will live and learn in a practical way, something invaluable: "the love of Jesus," and they may begin a deep personal relationship with Him that will completely transform their lives.

City: Tecate
Orphanage: Rancho San Juan Bosco
Number of Children: 35

Description: RSJB was established for boys only and at this time can accommodate up to 40 children ranging in age from 4 to 17. Expansion plans are underway to increase their capacity to 80 children including infants. They have also just opened a medical clinic to treat the boys as well as surrounding neighbors. RSJB rehabilitates street children and attempts to reunite them with any existing family or a new family. The main goal is to provide Christ-centered stability in the lives of children by teaching them about the love of a heavenly father who will never abandon them. The orphanage is not supported by the Mexican government and is not affiliated with any national denomination or church group. They are completely dependent upon the generosity of others, both locally and in other countries.

City: Puerto Escondido
School for the Disabled
Number of children: about 100

Description: This is an on-going project, working to expand and improve the Puerto Escondido School for the Disabled, building additions, enhancing wheel chair accessibility, installing and teaching computers and physio equipment etc.

City: Multiple
Orphanage: Iris Ministries
Number of Children: 3000+

Description: Iris Ministries has been ministering to orphans and at-risk children for over 10 years. Approximately 700 children are in orphanages while the remaining 2300 are cared for in foster homes managed by local churches. Iris supports these children by directly resourcing the churches that are administering the foster care homes.

City: Refugee Camps near Morrumbala
Project: Disaster Relief
Number of People: approx. 20,000

Description: Food and aid distribution to refugees from the recent massive flooding and cyclones in Mozambique. Working with Iris Ministries, Be A HERO is organizing teams of workers, and financial aid for food, seed, agricultural implements, blankets, shelter, baby formula, and container shipping.

City: Castillejos
Orphanage: Jireh Children's Home
Number of Children: 30

Description: Jireh Children's Home is a Christian home for children who have no home of their own: orphans; runaways; street children; victims of neglect, poverty, and exploitation - children who have nowhere else to go and no hope for a better life. Half the property comprises cottages and facilities for modern living. The other half is open land, set aside for agriculture and livestock. Jireh Children's Home grows much of its own food. It is a place where children grow up in a Christian atmosphere wherein personal and group devotions as well as ongoing Bible Studies are an integral part of the daily routine.

City: Davao
Orphanage: Jesus Loves the Little Children
Number of Children: 68

Description: JLLC was established out of a deep conviction to meet the needs of the orphaned, neglected, abandoned, and/or abused street children in metro Manila. The vision is to rescue hundreds from the streets to be cared for and loved as one's own. JLLC's goal is to establish a children's home that will become self-sustaining through networking, resource mobilization, and micro-enterprise projects.

City: Brasov
Orphanage: Hope for the Nations Romania
Number of Children: 30

Description: The support here goes for multiple programs. The main goal is to be able to keep children in a home atmosphere. If there are any existing relatives that a child can live with, we support them in that home. If this is not the case, we work to find an appropriate foster home for them. A children's hospital and a meal and education program are also a part of this support.

City: Freetown
Orphanage: Doves Village of Hope
Number of Children: 66

Description: This children's village is near the village of Regent on the outskirts of Freetown. We currently have one home with 20 children and run a private school for them. The home has both full-time and part-time Sierra Leone and Canadian staff. Two hundred miles upcountry we also care for 46 children who remain in foster homes. The children have food, clothing, medicine, education, and all their practical needs provided for them. The goal is to provide them with a warm, loving home and family so that they become well-educated, well-adjusted young adults who can further their education and eventually become an asset to their own country by using their skills and training to bring better living conditions for their own people

City: Mossel Bay
Pre-School and Child Care Facility: Kid’s Hope
Number of Children: 200

Description: Still in the fund-raising stage, the Kid’s Hope Preschool and Child Care Facility will care for pre-school children that are just left to their own defenses all day as their parent works. These little ones, living in slum areas, are subject to abuse and unsafe situations. Kid’s Hope will provide meals, education, play, safety, and love.

City: Port Elizabeth
Name of Orphanage: Children of Praise
Number of Children: 8

Description: Children of Praise nurtures and cares for children with HIV/AIDS related illnesses, providing them with a home, health care, education and skills training. An HIV/AIDS research project is also part of their mandate.

City: Bethany
Orphanage: New Hope Children's Home
Number of Children: 14

Description: The New Hope Centre project is an ambitious and bold intervention to address the nation of Swaziland's devastation. The vision goes well beyond reaching the destitute children in order to clothe and feed them; it encompasses rescuing the nation through the development of future leaders...these same children being clothed, fed, and educated. "Project New Hope" has been formalized and implemented to reflect this overall objective. The vision is to expand the current New Hope Centre facilities by scoping and establishing seven other centers throughout Swaziland. The target would be to house approximately 100-120 children at each centre. The vision sees upwards of 1000 children being clothed, fed, taught, and nurtured along the road to becoming leaders within Swaziland

City: Mae Sai
Orphanage: Garden of Blessing
Number of Children: 20

Description: This is an eight-acre property that contains Bible translation and literacy work, discipleship and student training, an orphanage, and several residences. The children currently in the orphanage all come from the same village on the Thai/Burma border. This is a village of Wa and Chinese soldiers.

City: Pattaya
Orphanage: House of Mercy
Number of Children: 19

Description: This home provides emergency shelter, food, clothing, medical care, love, and prayer for street and slum children. There are many problems associated with street children in Pattaya. They are easily taken advantage of by others...some are exploited as street sellers, others sold as slaves to be used as prostitutes to make money. This home takes these kids and gives them safety and their lives back

City: Kampala
Orphanage: Anchorage Children's Ministries
Number of Children: 20

Description: Founded in 2004, Anchorage Children Ministry ("ACM") began as an orphanage and outreach program to help orphans and street children. Currently, ACM provides basic necessities for the children in their care. These needs include food and shelter, education, vocational training, and psychological services. ACM helps to instill self esteem, confidence, and responsibility, and will help the children not only to achieve individual goals, but it will also better the community. ACM offers the children stability and love that is conducive to a normal childhood and a productive adulthood.

City: Kampala
Orphanage: Mercy Home for Children
Number of Children: 180

Description: Established on Christmas Day 2001 by Angela Namatovu, Mercy Home of Children ("Mercy Home") began as an outreach program for the street children of Kampala, Uganda. From there it has evolved into a full-fledged orphanage of nearly 200 children. Mercy Home provides the orphans opportunities to acquire the education and skills for future livelihood. In addition to the agricultural projects, the children provide services to local communities and also perform traditional and modern Ugandan dance and music to assist in supporting the orphanage. The children truly love performing for people.

City: Kampala
Orphanage: Suubi Child Development Center
Number of Children: 150

Description: Ezra Simon Ssemwanga opened Suubi Child Development Center ("Suubi") on May 23, 2005. The initial purpose of Suubi was to provide neighborhood orphans and needy children with free education in the hopes that the children, who otherwise would never have had the opportunity to receive any education, will become productive members of the community. The second phase of Suubi has already been started with the opening of the orphanage. The goal is to be able to provide food, shelter, and education to those orphans and street children, while directing them toward a relationship with their true Father and Lord.

City: Gulu
Orphanage: Homes of Love
Number of Children: 30

Description: Homes of Love is a ministry located inside the municipality of Gulu on 3.5 acres of land. There are presently two homes on the property: House of Love and House of Joy. These homes offer the children a safe and supportive environment in which to live. A house matron lives with the children and has the aid of an assistant and two helpers who live in nearby huts. The on-site staff become like the children's mothers, uncles, and aunts who minister to and mentor the children. All the children benefit from attending an on-site school whose teacher also lives on-site and is able to tutor those that need extra help. In addition, Homes of Love has an arts director who introduces the children to art, music, and drama.

City: Namugongo
Orphanage: Children’s Welfare Mission
Number of Children: 250

Description: The Children’s Welfare Mission was established in 1990 by the Dutch organization, Stichting Kinderhulp Afrika. This village cares for 250 resident children, complete with housing, a primary school, a secondary school, and a vocational school. Also in the compound are a medical and dental clinic, and a large meeting hall/gymnasium which are available for use by the surrounding community.

City: Gulu
Project: Nursery School
Description: Development of a Nursery school program at the Village of Hope, caring for the children of the child-mothers now in our vocational training program.

City: Kitwe
Orphanage: Sara Rose Children’s Foundation
Number of Children: 17

Description: Now installed in a new facility, the Sara Rose home provides loving care to children who have been orphaned or abandoned, usually as a result of AIDs, and feeds many other children who do not live at the Home. The school-aged children attend a nearby school.