Hope For The Nations

Learn more about this Program Program: CHILDREN IN EXTREME POVERTY

All of the children that Hope for the Nations works with are 'at risk' because of the effects of extreme poverty. Poverty impacts children because it hurts families. There are a number of ways in which it does this.

Poverty is a barrier to accessing health services. HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB affect millions of parents each year; without access to treatment, parents are unable to get well, earn a living or care for their children. Sometimes this means that their children are orphaned.

Poverty impacts a family's ability to provide food, shelter and education for all of their family members. In extreme poverty conditions, families may send their children to work rather than to school; in the worst scenario, children are employed in the worst forms of labour or parents sell their children into the trafficking network.

Poverty, in a variety of ways, feeds the cycle of violence in countries that are caught in conflict. Not only does this violence kill parents and children, it also causes major upheaval in the lives of families and communities, destroying family assets and future opportunities.

Without strategic interventions, poverty tends to be passed from one generation to another. Hope for the Nations believes that by intervening in the lives of the children who are most disadvantaged by poverty - orphans and vulnerable children - we can begin the process of change and the cycle of poverty can be broken. "Today's orphans" can be "tomorrow's leaders".

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Project
CAMBODIA - Poipet : CHO - Pig & Fish Farming

CHO - Pig and Fish Farming The specific aim of this project is to provide a source of sustainable income generation to the poorest of single mothers and their families along the remote villages on the Thailand border.

80 - 100 families of single mothers and their families will now have access to income generation through this pig or fish farming project.

60-80 children are attending school as a result of this income.

Along a long Khmer- Thai border is a remote and heavily forested village in O'Chrov and Malai Districts. There are more than 100,000 families living in these two districts and most residents are ex-Khmer Rouge.

Rice farming is the main source of income for the people, but when there is no crop to harvest, many of them take up migrant work in Thailand. The area surrounding the village is still heavily laden with landmines.

The current sources of Income generation for the villagers exist in Thailand, an exhausting and dangerous trip for the children and single mothers who go to work for their families. With poor wages, most of the children haven't the opportunity go to school because they are lacking income to support school uniforms and school supplies.

This proposed Community Pig & Fish Farming Project addresses the issue of income generation. The results of such an income generation assessment have indicated that improvements to health and livelihoods of the single mother and their family could be made through the pig and fish farming project in the target area.

Our partner organization, CHO, is a Cambodian Christian NGO based in Poipet, Cambodia. Its vision is to see a network of strong, hope-filled communities where adequate mental, physical, and spiritual needs are met. CHO believes children to be at the heart of this vision for Cambodia and so strives to educate, empower and equip children as leaders of the future.

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Our partner organization, Be A Hero, has the mandate to create heroes out of every day, ordinary people by providing them with opportunities to change the world, one child at a time.

Our partner is Christian Services Association, a non-profit society founded in Canada in 1973 and in the USA in 1984. It is the parent ministry of Extreme Prophetic, a 501(c)3 founded in 2004 in Arizona.