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International Service Teams / Individual Volunteers
ORGANIZATION: The GOD'S CHILD Project
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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1 person is interested
Founded in Bismarck, North Dakota in 1991 by Patrick Atkinson, The GOD’S CHILD Project (GCP) is a non-denominational organization reaching children and families in intense poverty. GCP provides essential care for thousands of children, widows, single mothers and families in Guatemala, El Salvador, India, Malawi, and the United States. In addition, GCP’s Institute for Trafficked, Exploited, & Missing Persons ( ITEMP) prevents and rescues victims of human trafficking.
Dedicated to sustainable and permanent changes, GCP has established an international presence in these poverty-stricken countries by providing education, healthcare, basic needs, emergency disaster relief, human rights services and family care. GCP’s efforts create stability and growth in broken areas of the world.
An International ServiceTeam or Individual Volunteer Experience provides an opportunity for you to use your talents and skills to serve others. Part of the trip is spent working on necessary home-improvement projects such as building simple yet dignifying homes, pouring concrete floors in shacks (to reduce illness and infection), or laying water pipes along a mountainside trail.
No construction experience or Spanish is necessary; however, a willingness to get dirty and serve is a great asset.
For travelers interested in gaining a realistic sense of life in Guatemala, optional excursions can be added to each ServiceTeam Experience.
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About The GOD'S CHILD Project
Location:
8085 Wayzata Blvd. #2020, Minneapolis, MN 55426, US
Mission Statement
WE, The GOD'S CHILD Community, are benefactors, friends, volunteers, and children joined together to assist God's poorest children in their educational, social, physical, and spiritual growth. We view education as a practical way to help poor children escape from an otherwise painful life. WE, The Adults, accept our youth as gifts from God given to be our teachers, students, and children. We believe in the need to stand by their side until they are prepared to meet life and triumph in the eyes of God, their community, and themselves. WE, The Children, are the pride and reason why The GOD'S CHILD Project exists. We have the responsibility to behave honorably and to respect legitimate national, spiritual, and environmental law. We recognize the opportunities and help we have received from others, and will try each day to help someone with a need greater than our own.
Description
The GOD’S CHILD Project (GCP) is an educational development organization dedicated to "breaking the chains of poverty through education, home building and healthcare." Since its founding in 1991 by Patrick Atkinson, it has grown to more than 12 distinct programs in five different countries.
Today, The GOD’S CHILD Project cares for and educates 5,000 orphaned, abandoned, and poverty-stricken boys and girls in addition to providing health and community-based services for 8,700 widowed, abandoned, and single mothers and their dependents in Guatemala, El Salvador, Malawi, and India.
The GOD’S CHILD Project is dedicated to sustainable and permanent changes. Through clinics, schools, social work, micro-finance, homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation, and human trafficking advocacy, The GOD'S CHILD Project is able to get to the underlying causes of poverty instead of merely treating the symptoms. Children who were once homeless and abandoned are now professional adults with families of their own because of the chance that GOD’S CHILD gave them.
We are not a hand-out program. Children earn much of what they receive through their participation in the program and in their schools, and have the opportunity to earn an additional scholarship which supplements, or even surpasses, their family’s income. Rewarding the children for academic excellence gives the other family members (i.e. the mother or parents) a vested interest in the academic progress of their child.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Carretera a San Felipe #106Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala Guatemala
DATE POSTED
May 1, 2018
SKILLS
- EMT
- Construction
- Healthcare
- Nursing
- Occupational Therapy
- Children Medical Services
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 16
- we work around your schedule!