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CARIF

Our purpose:
Children at Risk Intervention Fund exists to support efforts to rescue, help, protect,
give hope to the weakest among us—children abandoned, abused, abducted, victims of pornography and sex trafficking.

Children at Risk Intervention Fund helping in 2008–2009

Benin

Children at Risk Intervention Fund provided grants to Mercy Ships for the medical mission of “Africa Mercy” at the port of Cotonou, Benin. The 10-month visit began in February, and it is projected that over 5,000 specialized surgeries and 48,000 other medical procedures will be performed during that time. A large percentage of cases involve children. Training or mentoring programs will be provided to over 14,000 participants.

Brazil

CARIF supported the ministry of missionary John Bills, who is recognized as a foremost authority on Christian outreaches to people with HIV/AIDS. He founded and has oversight of Casa Refugio (House of Refuge) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, a Christian home for children with HIV/AIDS which has been in operation for 19 years. Currently 17 children, infants to age 14, are in residence. Each receives food, shelter, and compassionate care in the home, including medical treatments, schooling, and social assistance toward adoption

Cambodia

CARIF made a grant of $10,000 to International Justice Mission in support of its efforts to free children from sexual slavery in Cambodia. Recently, in the biggest single case of pedophilia in that nation’s history, they were able to secure justice for 19 young victims who had been bought and sexually abused by a multimillionaire Russian businessman in Sihanoukville. All were freed and received aftercare.

Liberia

CARIF provided grants to Mercy Ships for the medical mission of “Africa Mercy” at the port of Monrovia, Liberia. During its 10 months of service there, 56,380 individuals, the majority of them children, received life-saving medical help. There were 16,549 eye surgeries or treatments, 11,753 dental interventions, 732 maxillo-facial or orthopaedic surgeries, 625 VVF procedures, and 12,940 other medical consultations.

Mexico

CARIF supported the work of missionary Yolanda Villalobos, based in San Antonio de Minas, Baja California. She heads a unique independent ministry among migrant farm workers at their camps in Testerazo and Carmen Cerdan. There is a small chapel, medical clinic, school, kids club, teen meeting, and women’s Bible study as well as a special outreach to a group of families living in chicken coops.

CARIF shipped a 40-ft sea container filled with medical supplies to Centro Cristiano Poder de Dios in Mexico City to benefit suffering children and families. Included were 12 modules of antibiotics, pain relievers, surgical supplies, bandages, and assorted medical supplies. The shipment had a total fair market value of $632,480.

Sudan

CARIF made a grant to Make Way Partners for its ministry in Sudan seeking to rescue women who have been forced into sexual slavery and to care for the orphans they have left behind. Due to civil war and famine, there are more than 1,000,000 orphans in Sudan, many in the refugee camps of Darfur. In Aweil, on the border between the Muslim north and Christian south, Make Way Partners cares for 500 desperately needy children on its 100-acre site with 3 large dormitories, school, medical clinic, and church.

USA

CARIF made a grant of $10,000 to the Pink Cross Foundation, Bakersfield, California, for its vital work of rescuing women and children from the sex industry. The gift was designated to help abused and neglected children of women who are porn stars and prostitutes, for children who are themselves being exploited and violated, and especially for intervening with teenage girls at risk of entering the sex trade.