Village Partnership is an opportunity to help a village in Sierra Leone overcome the obstacles of extreme poverty, illiteracy and endemic disease through committed partnership. Over the last ten years Mercy Hospital has provided medical outreach to a network of villages surrounding Bo. Two years ago, the Child Reintegration Centre launched a sponsorship program to reach the villages, so that children can go to school and receive case management services. Recognizing that the best way to support a community is to strengthen the family, Helping Children Worldwide is expanding services to t...

A DAY OF FUN FOR A LIFETIME OF HOPEHelping Children Worldwide partners with faith-based and community organizations to transform the lives of vulnerable children and families. HCW's flagship initiatives, the Child Reintegration Centre and Mercy Hospital, provide essential services to thousands of children and their families in Sierra Leone, providing educational support, medical care, family strengthening, and spiritual mentoring. Through Village Partnership, the CRC and Mercy are transforming whole communities, bringing them life-giving water, sanitation, medical services, school improveme...

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EVERY CHILD DESERVES TO GROW UP IN A FAMILY The Child Reintegration Centre reunites children living without parental care with families. Whether this is a child who has left home and is now living on the street, or has lost their connection to family through tragedy, there is a need to prepare the child and the family for success. Getting the child home is only the first step to success. We cannot eliminate the dire circumstances of severe poverty that these children are born into. But we can help their families be better equipped to overcome it. By focusing on the circumstances of the w...

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There are 20,000 street-connected children (children who live or work on the street without appropriate adult supervision) throughout Sierra Leone. Poverty, not death, is the number one reason that children are separated from their families in Sierra Leone. Two years ago, after successfully reintegrating every child placed in Residential Care with a loving family, Helping Children Worldwide and the Child Reintegration Centre (CRC) in Sierra Leone decided to tackle the widespread issue of family separation (often called the Orphan Crisis) in a way that would ultimately bring every child off ...