Mission & Vision Statement...

  CRY'S MISSION
CRY is a Christian charity dedicated to caring for disadvantaged, destitute and suffering children, young people and their families. CRY aims to rescue and restore young lives broken by poverty, oppression, exclusion, abuse, and to provide appropriate opportunities for a better future.

  CRY'S VISION FOR THE FUTURE
CRY has come from a background of initiating, supporting and managing projects directed at children at risk. Early projects worked with children living on the streets and provided residential care for them. In recent years, CRY has successfully been providing funding for the on-going running costs of various programs and also, when grants have been obtained, to make one-off donations to help projects usually with building renovation work, together with equipment and furniture.

The programs have been many and various ranging from working with street kids, children at risk, children’s homes, education, health promotion, agriculture, HIV/AIDS, day centers, drug rehab, family programs, support for war orphans etc, and also in a variety of different nations. We have worked in just about every case with a local Christian church, providing the resources and help generally for them to carry the responsibility for the programs, so they are in fact ministering to the poor in their own locality.

CRY’s objectives have been, to minister through the various projects, to those in greatest need. This has been achieved through residential care, family support, foster care, independence training, etc. Many of these children have had the opportunity to experience love, affection and security for the first time in their lives and it is this outcome which CRY wishes to continue to provide.

Whilst there is still significant need in all of the countries which have CRY supported projects, many of these countries are now developing their own social care systems and our priority must be to impact in those countries with the less developed systems and the greatest need. Our emphasis will remain with those in greatest need – basically the poorest of the poor, which might include reaching unreached people groups.

Alongside the direct care of children and their families recent experience has shown the benefits of providing finance to enable projects to set up programs which will provide employment, income and self sufficiency. CRY’s objective will always be that of discouraging dependency on “western aid” and in this context development of seed funding/ business loans will be considered as preferred options before commitments to revenue funding.

CRY will therefore continue to develop the methodology - all financial commitments to projects being based on specific fundraising through grants, sponsorship and direct giving. CRY’s fundraising in any one year is based on known need and the targets set as a faith-based commitment.

To our many loyal supporters and friends, thank you for placing confidence in us as we continue to...

…rescue and restore young lives broken by poverty, oppression, exclusion and abuse to the glory of God!

  PRINCIPLES

• Motivated by the Christian ethics of love and integrity with a high regard for the value of each individual person, regardless of their background or station in life;

• Works with children, young people and their families;

• Governed by a clear and appropriate Child Protection policy;

• Supports local church(es) as they assume responsibility for the care programs in their own community;

• Encourages liaison with local government and other NGO’s;

• Involves and seeks to enhance local communities;

• Plans appropriate funding strategies for each program which generally encourages self-sufficiency and discourages long term dependency;

• Special attention given to those groups of people within the wider community which are marginalized and discriminated against.

  PROJECT INVOLVEMENT CRITERIA

Care of Children, Young People and Family Support

• Encourage and support families to care for their own children

• Work directly with children on the streets

• Support residential child care where appropriate

• Develop fostering and adoption options for children in residential care.

Education & Training

• Encourage and support deprived children and young people to access education

• Resource and support schools, kindergartens, homework clubs etc which provide education for deprived children and young people

• Provide life skills and sexual health education, particularly with respect to HIV/AIDS

• Encourage and advise on health promotion issues and access to medical services

• Provide and encourage access to vocational training.

Medical and Rehabilitation

• Provide appropriate medical assistance to deprived children and young people

• Resource and support rehabilitation programs for children and young people with addictions

• Support children, young people and their families who have disabilities and special needs

• Provide ‘day centre’ type activities for children and young people with disabilities and special needs.

Agricultural and Business

• Support the development of agricultural programs which feed the poor, enable families to achieve self sufficiency, and generate income

• Support the development of small business ventures with, for example, ‘seed funding’, specialist skills etc which provide employment for young people and generate income (income generated would help achieve self-sufficiency of the various care programs).

Emergency Response

• Provision of survival requirements, specialist professionals and other workers delivered to refugees from conflict zones and victims of disasters generally.

• Reference here should be made to our ‘guiding principles’ or working through local churches and/or in liaison with other NGO’s, local government.

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