Haiti

Next Week!

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Next week. It’s YOUR time to give.

From November 1-5th you can SPEND a week hearing from our partners, as we share their stories on social media and enews. Then do your part and GIVE to continue the work that is happening in Kenya, Guatemala, and in Haiti.

Be part of helping our partners with your financial contributions so our partners can do the amazing things they do, so more children can be cared for, so the movement grows, and evil is held back, and Christ is known.

It’s your time, join us next week… let’s all do all we can to see children empowered out of extreme poverty.

Reminder: Love In Action

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…Your generosity, your prayers remind our dear friends that they are not alone and they are not abandoned. Your giving is love in action – in a profound and live-giving way…”

Watch below to see how your giving is changing lives

As June begins the amazing relief work of the Furaha team and the Go Guatemala Team push on with energy and determination.

The relief work is being led by amazing people. In Guatemala it’s spearheaded by a wonderful retired gentleman and in Kenya young college students lead the work to walk the alleys and bring blessed relief supplies.

All are our heroes.

Nairobi, Kenya and Guatemala City remain in lockdown with curfew.

The poor remain unable to work and with no work there is no money. No money = no food.

In Jacob and Palma, Haiti the school is closed and the teachers are all quarantined in Hinche (the main city near the school).

Like Kenya and Guatemala, in Haiti the Covid virus means everything remains closed down and life is even more just about survival!

And that’s where you come in! Your generosity, your prayers remind our dear friends that they are not alone and they are not abandoned. Your giving is love in action – in a profound and life-giving way.

Thank you.

While we all struggle with so much happening around us – and the fear, the anxiety, the tiredness it causes us – you are continuing to go beyond yourself to be a blessing to so many children and their families.

We remain humbly grateful.

When I Grow Up News April 2018

Latest Updates from our Global Partners – April 2018

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At When I Grow Up, we exist to ensure no child in the world needs to live in extreme poverty.

We do this through behaving with relational intelligence, dedication and valuing meaningful relationships with our global partners.

Our action focuses on raising resources for funding and friendship to share with our global partners who are on the frontlines of helping children who live in circumstances of extreme poverty.

We are a village, because we know it takes a village. Our team is global including our global partner friends in Guatemala, Haiti, and Kenya. Our local partners are in California, Idaho, Indiana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Scotland.

In 2017, forty-two WIGU local partners traveled 79,114 miles to visit our global partners and share friendship and support.

Our supporters delivered on their best year to date in donating and investing in the work we do.

$657,810 was raised to help our global partners. Through individual donors, church support, fundraising events, and grants awarded, people gave generously believing in our mission and vision.

A total of 473 people, churches, companies and organizations stood with us in giving and investing in empowering children out of extreme poverty.

That’s over $1,800 raised every, single, day!

The focus of our work is on partnering with three amazing Global Partners who do life-changing daily, front-line work.

  • Furaha Community Foundation, Huruma slum, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Esperanza para Guatemala, Zone 18, Guatemala City, Guatemala
  • Bethesda Center Foundation, Palma and Jacob, Haiti

    Together they teach and care for 1,640 children and a total of 9,130 people receive regular help from our global partners in the form of school education, health care, daily feeding programs, weekly food supplies, micro-business interest free loans, church involvement, job training, work support, university grants and safe-house care.

    At the center of each global partner’s work is education.
    The education is wrapped around with feeding programs, health care, social care, spiritual nourishing, guardian empowering, safe house protections, job training, post High School education and community development.

    What’s Ahead in 2018

    Every year our global partners do more, help more, care more and love more. It’s our joy – and challenge – to keep up with all they are doing to change the lives of more and more children.

    Our biggest project to date is underway at Furaha Community Foundation. We are helping them build a new 240-bed dormitory for the High School students.

    This is a huge project – $300,000 huge!

    But as always we know our supporters and friends will help us raise it and see the Furaha High School students have the safe, warm, hygienic and quality dormitory they deserve.

    Click here to watch the video and learn more!

    Other News and Projects

    • In Haiti we also want to finish building their High School classrooms. But it’s more than bricks and mortar. Every day we provide 1,610 meals. We help over 90 staff provide for their families and develop their careers. We train 22 Pastors.
    • In 2018 Esperanza para Guatemala will start Phase One of a new Primary School.
    • We now have over 60 Furaha students studying at university or college.
    • Three safehouses are operating to protect most-at-risk children.
    • Last year textbooks were provided for every school student.
    • Esperanza have started a new program for 50 additional at-risk children from two local schools, three other schools will join in later in 2018.
    • In partnership with the Gnu Foundation there are over 240 micro-businesses running.
    • Furaha Primary won National Championship in arts and dance; top three in academics out of 120 schools; the Furaha High School was 5th out of 48 schools in their district.

    The amazing reality is that through our global partners, your support and investment with us helps 15,065 people every week!

    Travel in 2018

    Join us on in visiting one of our global partners. We have trips in the works for June, August, September, January, and February. We go to be, not to do. Learn more about traveling with us.

    Interested in visiting our global partners in 2018?
    Email carrie@whenigrowup-global.com and find out dates, costs and expectations!

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A Brand New High School In Haiti

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Foundation Bethesda Center, Jacob & Palma, Haiti.

As we start 2016 Lucson and our Haitian partners are getting ready to start a new High School in the Jacob and Palma valley. The first High School ever to be built in this ignored and forgotten valley in Haiti. No longer will students have to live in rented rooms in a strange city a 5 hour walk away from their family if they want to attend High School.

Imagine now students completing High School in this valley and being equipped with the education needed to contribute to the valley’s development and see new roads built, better water and sanitation services, more trade and enterprise and an educated voice to make sure they enter the next decade no longer forgotten or ignored.

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As this is happening even more guardians and parents are being given help to start their own micro-businesses in Jacob & Palma. This new group brings the total number of micro-loans provided and businesses helped to 160.

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You Can Make A Difference

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Poverty is a brutal cycle that billions are trapped in. But we believe that not only CAN this change, but that it WILL. And YOU can make a difference.

About When I Grow Up

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The Power of a Twix Bar

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When I Grow Up – Join In The Movement

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Haiti – Our Story

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Get to know one of our global partners.