Family-to-Family
- This program focuses on the most needy families in our field countries.
- Each family receives one parcel each month.
- They also has access all our other FamilyCare programs.
- Each family the needs vary, and so to do the items we supply.
The ravages of communism for many decades has left people very destitute. In Bosnia the effects of the war are still showing in many families.
We are thrilled to annouce that our wonderful Family-to-Family Program has now been launched in Bulgaria. Our exisiting network of great relationships with partnering churches, made this new step possible. Before this launch, our work centred around helping the ederly, disabled and families through Community Centres run in partership with local churches. Beneficiaries were ientified by the local churches, MWB and most importantly by local government authorities. Now we can help families individually and specifically through Family-to-Family, our staff in Bulgaria are over the moon! Its development and expansion is only limited by the sponsors we can recruit. So if you can manage to sponsor a family in Bulgaria we have many waiting for their turn!
In Albania, the Kosovo crisis brought many refugees into the country and though this was only temporary, has left the economy there at an even lower level than before.
In Ukraine the results of the Chernobyl disaster, now twenty years ago, has poisoned the ground where many live meaning that their health is continuously affected.
In Romania, families are still bringing their children to Children’s Homes for their upbringing because they are too poor to afford to care for them. When we help the families, we are keeping the children in a home, where there may well be a strong familial love not found in the institutions of Romania.
Moldova is such a poor country that almost 1 million of its people have left to find work elsewhere. That is a huge loss for a country with a population of around 4 million people.
In Bosnia, families devastated by war are living in atrocious situations. Many were displaced by the war and have suffered significant trauma. While helping practically in this country with 60% unemployment, our ministry has a focus of emotional and spiritual counselling and comfort, with some heart-warming results.
The goal is to help the family gain self-sufficiency.
Our Family-to-Family program is in Albania, Bosnia, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine.
Click here for Fast Facts on sponsoring a family.
Families awaiting Sponsorship orAlternatively, contact us if you would like to choose another family waiting for sponsors.
Would you like to read the latest Update in the Family-to-Family Program? Click the link to read more about this life-changing program in the latest edition of Trust and Belief - Torchbearer July 2010!
