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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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LIBERIA - MONROVIA : Discipleship Training Center

This residence is for our college and university students. This is a transitional house where we are getting them ready to graduate to life on their own. It's called a Discipleship Centre, because this is where they are trained as disciplined leaders with a focus on Social Justice.
Liberia is on the threshold of new economic growth and we look forward to working with our students as they step out to face these new opportunities.

We will have many of our graduates forthcoming from different universities and colleges, holding degrees in various studies like business administration, medical, economics, agricultural, and a variety of technical trades. This will happen as early as 2010.

Schools - we presently have our college/university students attending:

Cuttington University in Bong County - 6
University of Liberia - 1
Stella Maris Polytechnic - 2
United Methodist University - 3
The Salvation Army Vocational & Technical Training Program - 5
Smith Institute of Management and Technology - 1 Mother Patern - 1 A.M.E. University - 1 A.M.E. Zion University - 1

In this training center we also teach the boys to reach out to the disadvantaged in our community contributing to the needy. We run several mercy ministries from this center, which the boys are in charge of. We are partners with YWAM and have their leaders come to run discipleship classes with our students. Other times we run small business schools to teach them life lessons on practical financing. We have over 55 students ages 17 to 25 who benefit from these training sessions.

These young leaders will make an impact on all of Liberia. They are champions!

Our partner organization, Provision of Hope, is dedicated to serving the poor in Liberia, West Africa. [Click here to learn more about our partner]

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Re-unite boys with their families

Posted by HFTN on Jul 13, 2010 1:28 AM

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Re-unite boys with their families

Posted by HFTN on Jul 13, 2010 1:28 AM

Dear Friends of our Students in Liberia,
First I want to thank everyone who has a heart for our boys in Liberia, and who have so generously given to our work there! Without you we could not possibly do this.
You are making a difference in the lives of these young men! We are seeing these young students mature and develop into fine young men. Most definitely the discipling and training they are receiving at My Father's House is worth all the effort our leaders are putting forth.
We believe that in training our Liberian youth we are raising up leaders that will impact this nation in the years to come.
Ever since Sumo Gibson searched and found his mother we have many of our boys asking too if they can go to find their mothers. See his story Son Finds Mother after years of Separation . As you know, most of our boys were taken at early ages to orphanages or given to others to raise, simply because their parents or relatives were too poor to provide. In several cases, and probably most cases, their parents were killed in the war. I know these boys are going home to places of extreme poverty, and each has been asking if they could bring along something for their mothers or grandmothers. We could allow them to take a bag of rice, or a lapa.
Before we can even consider going ahead with this, we would need to raise the funds. Each boy would need approximately $75 to do this.
We made a list of the boys who would be allowed to go. These are boys who have already found relatives, or friends of their family who know where their family members are living. We do not want to go out on a wild goose chase, but rather with planned strategy. These are the 13 students who would be allowed to go first: Jackson Gbour, Patrick Goh, Randall Doegmah, Uriah Marcus, Francis Darlieh, Michael Gbahn, Dominic Roberts, Timothy Nurson, Reuben Gea, Lougon Wonbiah, Joseph Sackie, and James Kollie. I am sure others will also be asking, but these are among those who have not seen their mothers in years. They are very anxious to see their relatives.
If you or anyone you know of would want to help with this project we would be grateful! ~ Karen

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