Hope for the Nations works with a variety of styles of children's homes based on location and economic circumstances. This wide variety allows us to adpat quickly and effectively to the needs and crisis faced by homeless children.

Hope Children's Homes (HCH) house 8 - 15 children in a 'home-like' atmosphere with house parents.

Corporate Homes are 'partnership' children's homes financed by businesses and corporations.

Hope Foster Care Homes to form an "extended family' by caring for 3 - 5 additional children.

While Hope for the Nations does work with both traditional and cottage-style Children' s Homes, we are working with a relatively new model in a few of the areas where we are involved. The Village Concept.

Village Concept

An ancient African proverb states that: "It takes a village to raise a child." HFTN has made this proverb a centerpiece in our strategy for assisting Children at Risk. A village brings a blend of education, micro-enterprise, agriculture, health care and housing all under one roof.

The purpose of the Village Concept is to expand our projects to include community development at a larger level. The Village Concept usually includes a number of the "cottage style" Children's Homes on the same property as well as a school or educational facility, agricultural projects to feed the families in the village, and some form of health care - whether that be a clinic or Community Health Education program.

Within this community gathers the young and the old; the healthy and the sick; the single, widowed and the families; and the weak and the strong. Our villages extend an invitation for all to help. Those in the village assist one another, those within the surrounding 'neighborhood' are welcome to help, and the networks and resources of those abroad are encouraged to share their resources. The invitation to each is to come and build. Build buildings, build projects, build resources, build families, and build community.