Hope For The Nations

Learn more about this Program Program: CHILDREN AFFECTED BY CONFLICT & WAR

Wars have changed: today wars are primarily civil wars and civilians are targets rather than collateral damage. Today many warring groups specifically target women and children in order to spread fear through a population. This has led to a situation in which armed conflict disproportionately affects children.

Children who live in conflict zones or who have been through a war have suffered in many ways and need many different forms of assistance to regain a semblance of normalcy. Although children are extremely resilient, conflict makes children more vulnerable to the effects of their broken environment:

many have lost their family and friends;
many have lost their homes;
their community - and sense of community - was damaged;
Access to health care and education have been disrupted;
many have experienced physical trauma due to injury, illness, lack of nutrition or abuse;
Many have experienced emotional trauma from witnessing violence, losing loved ones, or being abused.

Hope for the Nations is particularly concerned about these children and seeks to address their needs using many different approaches. Explore the different projects that HFTN supports and consider how you can get involved.

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Funds Raised: $100.00 CAD
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GHANA - ACCRA : Buduburam Refugee Camp

Located 44 kilometers ( 27 miles) west of Accra, Ghana this refugee camp, opened by the UNHCR in 1990, is home to more than 35,000 refugees from Liberia who fled their country during the Liberian Civil War ( 1989-1996) and the Second Liberian Civil War ( 1999- 2003)

Since the UNHCR pulled out of this camp the people living there are very desperate. We assist those who have been left helpless, especially the hungry and the sick. We recently started a Single Mothers Empowerment Program whereby we fund training in different trades for single mothers. This enables them to provide for themselves and their children by engaging in small business enterprises . These women are so enthusiastic and full of hope because of their new opportunities.

We have women taking beauty salon training, cake decorating, tailoring, pharmacy and nursing. Others buy and sell goods at the market. Once trained, we offer funding through contracts for small business enterprise.

Our partner organization is Agape Gospel Mission, which is an international ministry reaching the world with God’s Love.

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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 organization is Partners in Action (PIA).

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Remember our MOTHER'S in the Refugee Camp!

Posted by HFTN on May 5, 2010 9:11 PM

Remember our MOTHER'S in the Refugee Camp!

Posted by HFTN on May 5, 2010 9:11 PM

Dear Friends,

I woke up this morning, so excited for MOTHER'S DAY!! I know there will be the usual surprises, and the "felt" love of my children gathering around!!!. Phone calls and cards will come from all over the world...and I love it!!! I absolutely love it!!! I will honor my own dear mother, and tell her how much I love her!!!

... but then I remembered our mothers in the Buduburam Camp, in Ghana.
Mother's Day is not so lovely for them.

They remember the tragic stories of war! They are haunted by the inner search for their children, and the ache and the pain, will never go away.... so it is with Kumba Bwah
... please stop to read her story..

Click here REFUGEE MOTHER IN SEARCH OF HER CHILDREN

... it is my prayer this MOTHER'S DAY..that Kumba can go home... to be with her son!!!
Please join me in prayer... to make this possible.

KAREN BARKMAN
PROVISION OF HOPE
www.provisionofhope.com

a Father to the Fatherless, a Defender of Widows, is God in His Holy Dwelling
and from your bounty O God, YOU PROVIDED FOR THE POOR....Ps. 68: 5,6,10

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The project partners are people of high integrity and have served faithfully in Ghana for many years.