Hope and Healing International
Hope and healing for children with disabilities in the world’s poorest communities.
We care deeply that children with disabilities in the world’s poorest communities live healthier, happier, longer lives. Too many of these kids are sick, lonely, abused, dying. We believe each one is loved & valued by God. No child should be forgotten.
FOREIGN AID CRISIS
Protecting children with disabilities in the face of foreign aid cuts
Hope and Healing International
We believe following Jesus means caring for vulnerable, forgotten kids.
We go to the world’s poorest places, to work with children living in poverty with disability. We are committed to bringing holistic care and support to kids who are too often left behind. With your help, we ensure children with disabilities are included in development programs and emergency relief efforts — all to give the miracle of hope and healing.
Jesus spent His life caring for children, women, men on the fringes of society – those who were blind, poor, forgotten. He is our inspiration.
Our faith drives us to work in the world’s poorest countries and communities.
We use resources for maximum world change.
That means making sure we work with effective local and international partners. We invest in new opportunities to reach more children in need of our services. We look for real solutions to real problems to break the cycle of poverty and disability – at the grassroots level and at the policy level.
Hope and Healing International
Here’s what we accomplished together in 2024
Take a closer look at everything you’ve helped us accomplish in 2024, and our plans to reach even more children.
We’ve put love in action for over 100 years.
Our History
When the German missionary pastor, Ernst Christoffel, arrived in Turkey, one particular group grabbed his heart: children who couldn’t see, who couldn’t walk, who couldn’t hear, begging in the streets… He called them “Nobody’s children” because no one was caring for these kids.
And so Pastor Christoffel opened a home and school for children with disabilities in Anatolia – Hope and Healing International’s first project – in 1908. Since then, Hope and Healing International has grown to care for millions of the world’s poorest children and families.
Hope and Healing International
“The deed of love is the sermon everyone understands.”
– ERNST CHRISTOFFEL
Millions of children are falling through the cracks
Right now, children in desperate need of medical care and support in the poorest communities of the world are being left behind. Too often, these children are overlooked by governments and international development organizations. And each day, kids are dying.
Children living in poverty with disability are too often seen as less valuable, cursed, less than human. They’re hidden away, sometimes out of shame, but more often because parents are trying to keep their kids safe while families struggle to put food on the table and a roof over their heads.
The sad reality is, too many of these beautiful kids are dying of neglect, sickness, abuse and loneliness. Misunderstanding, stigma and exclusion surrounding disability pull entire families into deeper poverty. And deeper poverty makes children more vulnerable to abuse, isolation, infection, further disability. It’s a vicious cycle that we’re out to break.
Hope and Healing International
Hope and Healing International
A world where all children can be all that God created them to be.
Hope and Healing International
With your monthly gift, you’ll give healing medical care to a child in need. You’ll give a child the support, assistance and bear to hug on their journey to hope and healing.
Give Hope and Healing Catalogue
From wheelchairs to clean water to livestock, send a gift that will change a child’s life by meeting their most critical needs.
We believe following Jesus means caring for forgotten children.
Our faith drives us to serve children living in the most difficult circumstances – so the most vulnerable are not left behind.
