5 September 2025
A Year in Review: A Look Back at Our Impact
“With your help, thousands of children receive help and love. This is a wonderful blessing!”
We continue to invest in school breakfasts and lunches in countries where children are hungry. We serve approximately 2,000 meals per school day in Ghana and 2,600 meals per school day in Kenya on an annual basis. In Haiti, our 3,200 schoolchildren received school lunches 3–5 times a week.
We distributed firewood to families with children struggling with the cold in Latvia and Romania. The wood also helped our resource centers for Roma children stay open all winter, serving meals and providing homework assistance. Read more about the distribution here.
As always, we brought joy to families worldwide by distributing Christmas packages. You can see many wonderful videos and pictures here.
At schools and day centers around the world, we invited children to celebrations with dancing, singing, plays, poetry readings, Christmas gifts, good food, and treats.
More year in review, in Haiti, we distributed goats, chickens, sheep, and seeds. As always, the “Pay it forward” principle applies to the goats: every child who receives a goat gives its first kid to another vulnerable family.
At the end of the year, we distributed food packages to 1,500 families in need in four Haitian villages: 350 in Marigot, 350 in Bois Negresse, 350 in Hesse, and 450 in Dano. Each package contained enough food to feed a family of four for a little over two weeks.
In May, when torrential rain in Argentina led to flooded homes and homeless sponsored children, we raised money for food, blankets, and mattresses.
In Latvia, Tamāra Šabazova has taken on the role of new head of operations after eleven years within the organization.
At our vocational school in Argentina, two popular courses are being held this academic year: a hairdressing course and a confectionery course.
Our resource center for children in Montes Claros also supports 75 vulnerable families through home visits and the distribution of food packages.
In Latvia, regular sports activities are carried out to strengthen the self-esteem of children with disabilities.
Our Roma work in Romania is celebrating its tenth anniversary! Last year, the first class of Roma youth who had received our support throughout their schooling graduated, since the center in the village of Valea Seacă was inaugurated in 2015.
When Storm Boris left families homeless in the Romanian village of Murgeni, we responded with food packages and other necessities.
In the last six months, we have carried out three aid efforts for displaced Ukrainians: in Makariv in December, in Radomyshl in March, and in Novolativka, Vilne, and Zelena Balka in April.
At the end of the school year in Taytay, Philippines, all 900 students successfully progressed to the next level. The graduating students earned their diplomas, and all younger children qualified for the next grade. Since its inception in 1989, our school has educated over 90,000 students.
At our newly established farm in Kenya, we harvested our first crop of corn, peas, and beans. The goal is to reduce the cost of school meals by 60 percent by decreasing the need for external food purchases.
This year in review is but a tiny example of the work we have been doing for over 50 years!
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