Bless the Children, Inc.

Our mission: to free abandoned and impoverished children from the chains of poverty by empowering them with health, shelter, educational and spiritual support so they become productive members of society.

Why do we exist?

Bless the Children frees abandoned and impoverished children from the chains of poverty by empowering them with health, shelter, educational, spiritual and cultural support so that they may become productive members of their society.  As an international humanitarian aid organization helping the world’s poorest children in far-reaching areas of the world, our many programs focus on addressing the primary cause of poverty – the lack of access to education. 

Our vision is to help build a world where poor children, in spite of their environment, can have dignity, can grow up with personal integrity, and can build a better life for themselves and their future children.

Bless the Children was born from an intense love of children, especially those who suffer unnecessarily.  While visiting children in orphanages, hospitals and clinics in Eastern Europe during the spring of 1991, Karen Hubbard, founder of Bless the Children, saw hundreds of sick and suffering children who lacked even the most basic health care.  At hospitals she witnessed hundreds of mothers standing in long lines for hours holding physically ill children.  The doctors had nothing to offer them.  Worse still were the orphanages crammed with hundreds of beds filled with children with no resources, receiving little attention; children with no future.

Returning to the States, Karen began working to help the thousands of children she left behind.  Traveling back to Eastern Europe with suitcases filled with medicines and clothes to distribute quickly developed into collecting and shipping 40-foot tractor trailer loads of life-giving aid.

Bless the Children has since grown into an organization that has helped children in countries throughout the world, including the United States, with support in many forms.

Bless the Children exists to help the poorest children of the world with no resources have all their basic needs met so they may have laughter and life and grow to take part in the world as educated, responsible participants in their communities.

What have you accomplished?

Through partnerships with corporations, hospitals, civic organizations, schools, churches and individuals Bless the Children has helped children and their communities in effective, life-changing ways throughout the world. 

Hundreds of shipments of 40-foot tractor trailer loads of medical equipment and supplies, food, bicycles construction materials and educational equipment and supplies have been received internationally by those in need in Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, the Republic of Georgia, Ukraine, Chelyabinsk, Pyatigorsk, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Colombia, Guyana, The Congo, Tanzania, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Belize, Panama, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, St. Vincent, St. Kitts, Nevis, Bahamas, Granada and Haiti.

In the United States our shipments have assisted the poor of the Appalachian area, Central Virginia, North Carolina and Indian Reservations.

In addition to shipping medical equipment and supplies our efforts to heal children include establishing clinics in remote areas, hosting medical teams to areas where there is no health care available and sponsoring children for special medical care and surgery.

Around the world millions of children are unable to learn due to the lack of food and water.  It is not uncommon for some children to go days without nourishment.  Oftentimes the meal a child receives at school is the only food he has that day.  Since a child cannot survive through to a productive adult life or become educated if he does not receive the nourishment he needs, Bless the Children has established feeding programs to address these needs.

Knowing that education is the key that unlocks the bondage of poverty Bless the Children has developed educational programs to answer these needs.  These include: establishing operative schools by shipping school desks and furniture, shipping and purchasing basic school supplies and books and establishing libraries.  Our school sponsorship programs outfit orphaned and impoverished children with uniforms, shoes, socks, athletic uniforms, backpacks and school supplies.

In keeping with our commitment to truly aid children in their journey to a better life we strive to educate them in character development, the truth about drugs and human rights.

Bless the Children provides health and education programs for the poorest and most desperate children

The following is a basic list of our programs: school program for poor, orphaned and abandoned children, school feeding program, school renovation, providing teachers and teacher’s salaries, student sponsorships of school supplies and uniforms, renovation of and library services, shipping and distributing humanitarian aid, helping street children find their way back to society through rehabilitation, delivering medical clinics where there is no medical help available, hosting volunteers and medical teams, ambulance emergency services, prison assistance and life-saving heart surgeries.

Bless the Children is committed to a long-time tradition of working in cooperation with communities.  Instead of giving handouts which cripple the poor by reducing their self-esteem, we build them up with pride and accomplishment for a job well done.

This method brings positive change in a miraculous way.  We provide what is needed and teach communities to help themselves.  In this way, families come together, work together and take responsibility together to create a better community for themselves and their children.  Their confidence is restored and they happily become more and more independent.

To date hundreds of thousands of abandoned and impoverished children have been helped through Bless the Children’s work, accomplished through partnerships and supported by donors just like you.  Join us today to create a better life for these children, thereby creating a better future for all.

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