Remember that old saying”An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, well it could not be more true when it comes to children living in poverty. If we come along side a family and help in their time of need, you can truly prevent children from becoming an orphan.
Enter the Bring Love In Keep One Home program, where we are helping poor families in our community to rise up out of poverty and get ahead.
Today we have 50 families signed up as the initial families in this program. What we do is identify families who are very close to having to give up their children because they cannot afford to keep them and we give them a little money and support each month to make ends meet. We also place some money into a savings account and a health care account. Then we come along side them and help with their basic needs like school books, uniforms and medical check ups. Our goal is that each family would be a part of the sponsorship for three years and after that time be in a better place and be able to make it on their own.
Pretty simple and straight forward huh? We think that when there is a chance to keep children in their birth families, we should be doing everything we can to help.
Here is where you come in, for only $35 a month you can become a sponsor and help keep a family together, keep their kids in school, and give them the support they need to handle whatever it is that may come their way. It’s not enough to make them want to quit their jobs, but the right amount to ease the struggle and keep them motivated to get ahead.
All 50 families have been sponsored! Thank you so much for everyone who has signed up, we will be adding more families soon!
Levi
Levi, we are interested in a sponsorship of this type. Is this a 3 year commitment? Where are you in terms of sponsors for these 50 families?
Thanks for this! So far we have 12 of the 50 sponsored. And we are doing a big push for more today for orphan Sunday.
I just wanted to thank you for taking this challenge. I am reading your book No Greater Love right now, thanks for expressing your self regardless of how others might perceive it.
It is really nice to be able to see the faces of the people you wrote about. You described your wife really ( she is a real woman of substance).
Thanks for what you are doing.
Levi, we are sponsoring a family but we haven’t received a picture or many details. Should we expect to get this info soon or will it be awhile?
Joel and Kathy, I am sorry you did not get your info! We sent it all out a few months ago, it must have not made it. I am going to email you now.
Hi Levi,
I’m just curious, does this program address these family’s spiritual needs as well?
Thank you!
Beautiful.
When you say “give them up,” do you mean let them live in an orphanage for care but they don’t intend to relinquish parental rights? My understanding is that is what that means.
We sponsor through World Vision. Is this similar?
Like you we want to keep families together.
It is a pity that people won’t give thirty bucks to keep families together but will fundraiser thousands to separate them through adoption.