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Change the World.

There are more than 140 million orphan children around the world. They are the world’s “least of these.” There are many more children in need, children at risk, living with neighbors, extended families in extreme poverty, children who need change.

That’s why we minister through Buckner Global Initiatives, our global support arm for orphan and at-risk children and families. Buckner is a globally positioned ministry focusing on helping children and their families be safe, healthy, have a real future and know that God loves them and cares for them.

How do we do that? Through Global Initiatives, we seek opportunities to come alongside churches, governments, private ministries and individuals to serve the children, orphans, and families in those at-risk places.

And the way we change the world is to provide a marriage of strengths between Christians in each country and Buckner supporters. We empower national Christians to do the work of ministry through the support of the Buckner platform of financial support, good will and connections.

Our philosophy is to position ourselves as the servant of national leadership. National, indigenous leadership is best equipped both culturally and linguistically, to provide the most effective means of delivering ministry.

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You Can Change the World. Be a Voice.

When you become a partner with Buckner through the Voice giving program, you have a regular and continual impact on the lives of these orphans and at-risk children throughout the world. Through our Voice, their voices are heard.

As a Voice, you make it possible for Buckner to improve the living conditions of these children in meaningful ways. Through Voice-sponsored ministries, Buckner shows children they are loved and have hope.

Buckner supplies a variety of support by providing for:

• Physical needs — clothing, food and medical attention
• Emotional needs — a loving and caring staff or foster family
• Educational needs — daycare, after-school programs and mentoring
• Spiritual development — introducing the love and hope of Jesus Christ

Become a Voice Now.

How You Can Change the World

To provide ministry and care for children, we work with you to focus on the delivery of basic, core programs designed to answer core needs of children in orphanages. Throughout all of our programs, we seek to meet the most basic need of all, to share the love of God with children and families.

Critical to the long-term success of Global Initiatives is the commitment to the indigenous model of ministry. By partnering with nationals to assess, plan, design and operate programs in their countries, Buckner helps promote independence and sustainable development.

Buckner offers more than a century of experience of providing critical programs for the most needy children and families, including:

• Residential and Foster Care. In some countries, we provide residential care and foster care designed to give children a home with the structure and support they need to heal and recover from a family crisis or an abusive or neglectful situation.

• Humanitarian Aid Assistance. Providing support such as food, clothing, and medicine, including our annual Shoes for Orphan Souls shoe drive and Gift Catalog, means children live healthier.

• Orphanage Support. Construction projects and emergency repairs for the institutions in which these children live improves their surroundings. Buckner does not stop with their physical needs but send “follow-up staff” into the orphanage to share the gospel and disciple new Christians.

• Church and Community Ministries. Buckner teams with Christians from local churches to provide ministries in their neighborhoods. Often children and families near the local church are the poorest of the poor suffering from lack of education, health care, or simple basic services. Working with the local church programs such as child development centers, schools, water wells, health clinics, and community centers are developed. This serves as the platform by which the Gospel can be shared.

• Transitional Programs. Youth aging out of the orphanage system or young, homeless single parents need a safety net, the opportunity to successfully move to the next phase in life. Housing, education, life skills, job skill are all essential elements to transition to adulthood.

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