CHILDREN’S RESCUE OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL (CROI)
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Children Rescue Outreach International, CROI, is a Christian, non-denominational, US 501 (c) (3) non-profit ministry established in November 1994 after the 14 year civil war in Liberia and registered under the laws of Texas on December 22, 2004. Its goal is to assist orphans, widows and orphanages worldwide.
Presently, Children’s Rescue Outreach International (CROI) published five acres of land in Grand Bassa County, Compound #1. (CROI) built two dormitories for girls and boys, a temporary school and a church DONATE YOUR USED VEHICLES |
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Children and Volunteer Workers
As a result of the war, a new category of socially vulnerable population at high risk has emerged: abandoned and orphaned children. The adult and elderly grandparents’ population of these children that survived the war are unable to fend food for themselves and their grandchildren. The need to rehabilitate basic social services to compliment government’s recovery drive is critical for the educational and emotional development of orphaned and abandoned rural children.
Objective:
The objective of Children’s Rescue Outreach International (CROI) is to provide high quality Bible based education, food and clothing, shelter and health care services to orphans, abandoned children and widows.
According to UNICEF, Liberia’s infant and under-5 mortality rates remain among the first five highest in the world. More than 15 per cent of children die before reaching their first birthday. Preventable diseases like malaria and measles are among the leading killers of children. Malnutrition and respiratory infections kill thousands of children each year.
Statistics show that half a million children do not attend school. Two thirds of students are being taught by unqualified teachers. Girls’ enrolment rates lag far behind those for boys.
As Liberia recovers from its 14 years of brutal conflict that was marked by wide spread destruction of life and property, massive population displacement, and a collapse of basic social services CROI was established to assist in this restructuring process in the lives of these orphans and abandoned children and widows.
PROJECT COMMUNITY
District Number One is one of the four political and administrative districts of Grand Bassa County, Republic of Liberia., present concentration of CROI. The population is estimated to be 45,000. The basic livelihood for majority of the people is subsistence farming based on traditional methods (slash and burn). Like many rural communities, District Number One was severely devastated by the war, its population uprooted and displaced, social infrastructures destroyed traditional community coping mechanisms and the family support system broken. People have returned to their respective towns and villages in the absence of basic social services and infrastructures.
Over the years, CROI has worked in partnership with orphanages and local communities
to improve existing orphanages, construct new shelters and schools for abandoned children and orphans, and provide drugs, clothing, foot wears and training for care givers in Liberia.
DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED PROJECTS
The Children Rescue Center project envision the construction and equipping of a community health center that will provide: outpatient services; preventative services including vaccination, maternity services, health education; a dormitory facility for boys who are being care for by CROI at a temporary shelters, and the construction of a primary school building that will be use for formal education and vocational skills training for orphaned and abandoned children. The clinic, dormitory and school will be built on the five (5) acres of land already purchased by the organization.
PROJECT GOAL
* To improve access to primary healthcare services to abandoned children, orphans and residents in District Number One, Grand Bassa County.
* To increase primary school enrollment by 25% in two years through education and employable vocational skills training for orphaned and abandoned children and women
* To provide safe homes, care and protection for abandoned and orphaned children and their families.
OBJECTIVES
The project seeks to:
* Increase access to primary health care and referral for 50 orphans, abandoned children and widows as well the community in District Number One, Grand Bassa County.
* Construct one - 10 classrooms school for the education and training of abandoned and orphaned children as well as disadvantage rural children in District number one.
Presently, the following projects have been completed or nearing completion with the assistance of faithful donors:
1. a boys’ dormitory – nearing completion (needs ceiling and a few more beds to be completed)
2. a girls’ dormitory – nearing completion (needs ceiling to be completed)
3. a church edifice – under construction—at roof level
4. a temporary school – built with traditional structure (mat). School is accessible to neighbors’ children with free attendance.
Boys’ Dormitory