Adopt/mentor a child

“Adopt” or Mentor a Child or Family

All human beings have basic needs such as food, water, clothing and shelter. Added to that, are healthcare and access to education. RHI’s program of “Adopt a Family or Child” is intended to achieve the following:

Family – Aim: Get them out of poverty by:

Assisting in satisfying their basic needs
- Food – LGHLC/RHI partners with a supermarket service that will deliver groceries to the child or family on a schedule time. This can be weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or a one-time delivery.
- Clothes – we can coordinate the shipping and delivery to the child or family.

Working with them to finding ways to supplement their income
Helping parents understand the power of education thus keeping their children in school
Being a friend that is always there for them

Child – Aim: To the very least, become a high school graduate by:

Assisting in satisfying their basic needs
Ensuring they stay in school and do well by teaching them the power of education
Mentor / Guide them along the right path towards a life of high morals and respectability. The kids and family are so desperately in need of advice, hope via words. It can be a phone call or a letter. The thought that there is someone that cares goes a long way.
Being a friend that is always there for them

Here are a few examples of this program and the results:

One In 2006, a mother asked for a pregnant cow which was provided to her by her sponsor. Today, she has eight cows and a constant supply of milk for sale. She and her family are also raising sheep, ducks and chicken. She has two sons are they are both doing well in school. She has also fenced her property and built modern toilet facilities for her family. She and her husband continue to work hard and doing well.
A single mom asked for a sewing machine, hers was destroyed in the flood. She got a machine, zippers, buttons, thread and tools to keep sewing. She continued sewing and then started retailing movies on DVD and musical CD’s all over the country.
A brother (14) and sister (15) were orphaned after their mom died, they were sent to an orphanage, and their dad could not take care of them. They were “adopted” by a family in NJ who provide them with food and money for transportation to school. The kids now are out of the orphanage, living at home.
A 14 old girl lost her parents and is living with her grandmother who is very poor. She is “adopted” by a New Yorker. She gets clothes, foodstuff and mentoring via letters and phone calls.
2 little girls, 11 and 8, lost their mom 5 years ago. Their dad and grandma is struggling to take care and provide for them. They were “adopted” by a Guyanese family living in Germany. They are being provided with food, clothes and mentoring, encouragement through letters.