2026 Advent Tree Giving

This Advent season, celebrate the gift of giving by bringing hope and opportunity to vulnerable children, families, and communities.

For 26 years, Helping Children Worldwide (HCW) has worked alongside local partners in Sierra Leone to help children thrive by strengthening and empowering families and communities. Through education, healthcare, family strengthening, professional case management, and economic empowerment, we help create pathways toward healthier, safer, and more sustainable futures.

Each QR code on the Advent Giving Tree represents an opportunity to make a difference. Simply choose a QR code from the tree, scan it with your phone, and discover how your generosity could help transform lives.

Every gift, regardless of size, contributes to this important work. Explore the examples below to see what your generosity could help make possible.

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What Could Your Gift Make Possible?

Every child and family has unique needs. Your generosity helps HCW and our local partners respond to those needs through individualized support, professional services, and community-based programs.

Here are just a few examples of how your gift could contribute to lasting change.

A $25 Gift Could Help:

• Provide nutritional support for a child experiencing malnutrition.
• Make essential medical supplies available to help care for mothers and babies.
• Equip a child with school supplies and learning materials to support their education.

A $50 Gift Could Help:

• Connect a young child with testing and treatment for malaria.
• Help a vulnerable family access guidance, resources, and support to strengthen family relationships and stability.
• Reduce barriers that prevent a pregnant mother from accessing essential healthcare in her community.

A $100 Gift Could Help:

• Extend Mercy Hospital's medical outreach to underserved rural communities.
• Strengthen a family's efforts to build financial stability through appropriate economic empowerment opportunities.
• Help families access individualized support, counseling, and follow-up as they navigate challenges.
• Expand opportunities for midwives to strengthen their skills in protecting mothers and babies.

A $150 Gift Could Help:

• Make essential medical and surgical supplies available for mothers and babies in need.
• Connect vulnerable children and families with professional case management, individualized support, and appropriate community resources.
• Support access to critical medical or surgical care for a child in need.

Want to Make a Different Gift?

Every dollar makes a difference.

Whether you give $10, $250, $500, or another amount, your generosity helps sustain the people, programs, and resources that make lasting change possible.

Behind every strengthened family is a network of dedicated professionals and community partners working together. Social workers assess family needs, develop individualized plans, conduct home visits, coordinate referrals, provide follow-up, and help families access the resources they need to thrive.

Your support helps sustain this essential work, ensuring that children and families receive individualized care and the right support at the right time.

Your generosity also helps sustain the broader systems that make this work possible, from healthcare and education to family strengthening and economic empowerment.

At HCW, we believe that lasting change happens when families are strengthened, communities are empowered, and local leaders have the capacity to lead their own futures.

The examples above illustrate what your gift could help make possible. Actual needs and program costs vary, and contributions support the broader work necessary to achieve meaningful, sustainable outcomes for children and families.

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Give Hope. Grow Futures.

As we celebrate the greatest gift of all this Advent season, help us continue our 26-year legacy of hope and transformation alongside our Sierra Leonean partners, the Child Reintegration Centre and Mercy Hospital.

Your generosity helps children access education and healthcare, families build greater stability, and communities develop opportunities for a brighter future.

You've scanned the QR code. You've explored the possibilities. Now, you can help make a difference.

Ready to Make a Gift?

Click the Donate button to make your gift today!

Every contribution matters. Together, we can strengthen families, empower communities, and help children thrive.

Make a gift. Share hope. Help transform a life.

Thank you for being part of the HCW family and helping create a brighter future for children and families in Sierra Leone.

This Advent, give hope. Grow futures. Transform lives.