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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.

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Children at Risk Intervention Fund helping in 2009–2010

Brazil

Children at Risk Intervention Fund sent a grant to Casa Refugio in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This is a Christian home for children with HIV/AIDS, founded by Youth With a Mission leader John Bills 20 years ago. 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.

Cameroon

CARIF made a grant to World-Wide Missions Cameroon for building repairs and installation of electrical service and lighting for its Christian high-school in Mpundu. The renovation project is being supervised by lay missionary Jon Smalldridge, whose father founded the school over 30 years ago. Approximately 400 students will be enrolled in the coming year.

Congo

CARIF made a grant to Invisible Children designated for rescuing and rehabilitating child soldiers. Since 2008 over 2,300 children in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been abducted by Joseph Kony’s notorious “Lord’s Resistance Army” and tuned into vicious killers and plunderers. Invisible Children deploys search and rescue teams to find children who have escaped from the LRA, pays for treating their emotional and behavioral problems, and returns them to their families and communities.

El Salvador

CARIF shipped a 40-ft sea container filled with medical supplies to Fundacion Nuevos Horizontes Para Los Pobres in Cuidad Delgado, San Salvador, El Salvador, to benefit families and needy children with hospital care. The shipment had a total fair market value of $462,000.

India

CARIF made a grant to International Justice Mission to help with costs of a case involving the freeing of more than 500 bonded workers (including scores of children) at a brick kiln in Chennai. Investigators found conditions to be brutal and oppressive, including workers toiling 14 or more hours every day, beatings with rods and belts, stifling heat, poor sanitation, and no medical facilities available. IJM and the government organized trucks to send the laborers to a school nearby, where they were given meals, police protection, medical treatment and counseling. They also were given a certificate of freedom, the first installment of rehabilitation funds, and a train ticket to return home.

Southern Sudan

CARIF provided a grant to Make Way Partners for its ministry in Southern 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

CALIFORNIA: CARIF made a grant to the Pink Cross Foundation, Bakersfield, 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.

CARIF sent a grant to Shepherd’s Gate, Livermore, for rehabilitation of battered and homeless women and children. Since 1984, Shepherd’s Gate has provided a safe shelter for over 9,000 mothers and their children, caring for up to 110 at a time, breaking cycles of abuse and addiction.

MARYLAND: CARIF provided ongoing financial support for Childsavers Inc., of Rockville, MD, which for 26 years has provided a nationwide referral service and guidance for child advocates. Direct services are provided to parents, children, doctors, therapists and other healthcare professionals. Individuals are prepared for court appearances, informing them of their rights and teaching them the most effective strategies for dealing with situations they encounter as they attempt to protect children. A 24-hour confidential crisis hotline (301-251-9099) is staffed, receiving an average of 30 calls and 18 e-mails each day. The best in follow-up services are provided to ensure dignity and promote healing. Altogether approximately 10,000 people were served during the time period.