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Program Goals:

The goals of our programs can easily be found in our mission statement: "To bring hope to the orphans of the world by

providing food, shelter, medical care, children's Bibles, educational assistance, adoption services and more in a manner

that breaks the cycle of dependence and promotes individual and societal productivity as well as charitable character

within the community." The underlined portion of the mission statement is the driving force and motivation behind the

cumulative many thousands of hours of research into the customs, cultures, available resources and history in each area of each

country in which we work.

This is because our goals place far more emphasis on scope than on scale. Our goals apply to the individual, the community they

live in, the region, the country and the world. That's also why we have maintained a staff of professionals who now have many

years of experience working in foreign countries specifically with orphan children. We have staff with social degrees and even

expertise in adoption. The leadership of Orphan's Lifeline International have all had success in business for many years prior to

joining this organization and extensive backgrounds in advertising and marketing to help grow our faithful pool of thousands of

donor/partners, therein providing financial stability to ensure continued growth of our programs for the orphan children of the

world, while being sure the current scope and scale is sustainable as well.

Goal Specifics:

To move the children we work with from one statistical pool to another: Every child is an individual, with individual dreams

and goals. Orphan children are no different. Once their environment has been stabilized, i.e., they have shelter, adequate food,

medical care, love and nurturing, their basic critical needs have been fulfilled. This is the first key element our programs provide.

This immediately moves them from the statistical pool that says that 50% of the orphan children will not survive to adulthood.

The next phase of our programs provides opportunities for the children to act upon their own individual dreams and goals. We

make sure that they receive a complete and thorough primary education, access to counseling and mentoring and nurturing.

Whenever the natural resources of the geographic location of the home allow, we use agriculture and animal husbandry, sewing,

baking, woodworking and metal working to provide the children with additional skills and make the home and community more

self sufficient. This sets the foundation for them to be an educated, and mentally, physically and spiritually healthy young adult

ready for higher education, vocational training or immediate entry into the work force based upon their individual abilities and

acheivements. This phase also moves them from the statistical pool that says that the majority of orphans that even survive will

do so without even a primary education and that the vast majority will turn to crime as young adults in order to survive.

Becoming a productive member of their society in turn provides self-actualization and the ability to provide for themselves

and a family, a key element when coupled with the knowledge that they received all of their childhood needs, not only from their

direct caregivers, but from many caring individual thousands of miles away. This builds charitable character that makes them

want to give back to their community.

The community itself is improved in many ways: Fewer orphan children on the street, lower crime, the community is involved

in caring for its own, (often in direct opposition to custom and culture) improved economy via injection of program revenues

using local merchants and services to provide for the homes. Jobs as caregivers, security, directors, tutors, etc. are also provided

that would not exist otherwise. This helps move the community from one statistical pool to another.

The country itself and the world reap obvious benefits when the orphan children and the community move from one statistical

pool to another. Lower crime, better economies and healthy young adults contributing rather than detracting from the world

society means the programs are quite literally changing the world, one child at a time.

How do we measure our success and how do we know it works? First we recognize, that every child is an

individual. Not only are their dreams and goals individual, but their skills, abilities and drive as well. Orphan children are no

different. As stated, our goal is to move them from one statistical pool to another...to give them the same "odds" as a child living

in a traditional family in an average safe community. This is how we measure our success. Are the majority of the children that

age out going on to productive lives that include higher education and good jobs? Are they successfully integrating into

society without turning to crime, abandoning children of their own and creating orphans themselves? Are the

communities they live in showing positive changes? Are cultures that don't inherently exhibit chartitable character, now

doing so?

The answer is YES! After more than ten years of implementation of our programs in some of the countries in which we are

working, we now have statistics that prove our program theory. Three examples: Homes in Russia in which 100% of all children

aging out are going to college or have found good steady jobs. Some are married with children and CARING for them.

In India, homes in which the first 5 graduating children are in college. Occurence of crime and disease related to children, cut in

half in communities we are working in. A home in the Philippines in which the first 4 graduating children are ALL in college. A

home in India that has a waiting list for entrance and the requests are coming from as far as 100 miles away. Thank you's from

government officials in two countries for our work. Government officials wanting to model their orphan care programs after ours.

Complete trust from notoriously suspicious governments... graduated children choosing jobs that help the poor and

ORPHANS...the list goes on and on.

Donor / Partners have access to the evidence of all of this in the form of news from directors, photos, letters from children, etc.,

etc. in the Partner Pages and receive a printed newsletter every month detailing our work.

Orphan's Lifeline International and it's partners are changing the world, and it is our pledge to continue to do so in a

tranparent manner that provides evidence of efficient, effective and sustainable programs that continue to grow in scope

and scale every year!

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