Children live in families, in communities, in countries. We work on every level to achieve our goal of child well being from international activism to checking in on children face-to-face.

• Children are the focus of our work, and are important participants.
• We invite children to tell us about the problems they see in their communities.
• We help improve systems and structures to make their world a better, safer place to live.

Our local staff members begin working in a community by asking a lot of questions - finding out what problems the community and especially the children see.

• Together, we come up with a plan, decide on ways to evaluate and measure success, and get to work.
• The community is involved, empowered, trained, and takes ownership in the programs and progress.
• Every 3-5 years we look at the original plan to assess and evaluate our success. If we're not meeting our goals - we make adjustments, and then keep working. We call this our LEAP framework (Learning through Evaluation and Planning).

• We are unique because while sponsorship is the foundation of our work, it is not the only thing we do.
• Sponsorship gives us a long-term relationship with children and sponsors, and a long-term funding base that we leverage to secure grants, corporate gifts, resources from local governments, one-time donations, and more.
• The whole is greater than the sum of the parts - just sponsorship, just corporate gifts, just grants, or just one-time donations alone couldn't achieve the level of transformation we see in the communities where we work.

We love the way Jesus cared for the poor and oppressed, the way he showed us how to listen to children, and how to look out for widow and orphans.

• Together, we come up with a plan, decide on ways to evaluate and measure success, and get to work.
• Our hope is to reflect the unconditional and transformative love of Jesus in culturally appropriate ways.

Some organizations focus in on just one issue. Not us. When we address the root causes of poverty and injustice in a community, we design integrated programs that address every piece of the puzzle.

• For example: if children are not attending school we need to find out why. It could be because they have to walk a long ways to get water, or they don't have money for uniforms, or they don't have food to eat and can't concentrate, or they might not have supplies, or they might have to work because their parents can't earn enough to support their family.
• Addressing the root causes of a problem leads to a better, more sustainable solution.

Some organizations come in for a few years and leave when funding runs out. Not us. Addressing the root causes of poverty requires a marathon, not a sprint.

• We not only empower the community, but also bring together a local network of churches, businesses, governments, community organizations, and other organizations.
• Working together, we can draw on everyone's strengths, making our work more sustainable.
• The network we helped create can continue looking out for children's well being even after we have moved on to work in other communities.