Our first goal is to rescue
and provide immediate medical care.
Our desire is to take
abandoned, abused, and high-risk infants and small children from
the street to provide twenty-four hours a day/seven days a week
care. This includes a home, food, clothing, education, recreation,
and full medical attention.
Our second goal is to
provide a loving home atmosphere.
Our aim is to provide
a place where children are safe, warm, and happy. Giving a child a bed,
good food, a warm shower, practical clothes, a big stuffed animal,
and lots of love is a privilege to us and a miracle to them. It
does not take long for these children to respond and begin
physical, spiritual, and mental healing.
Our third goal is to provide
an education for the children.
We believe that if you
give a child a home, you give him a hope, but if you give him an
education, you give him a future.
The right to an
education in Colombia was established in 1991(DANE 1995-2000), but to many it is
still a privilege. For homeless, poor, and displaced children it
is only a dream. We know that as we give the children an education
that includes bilingual studies and cross-cultural experiences
they will have skills to take with them to change a nation. CVII
wants to give each child in our home a hope and a future.
Our highest goal is to raise
and train children to change a nation
.
You cannot stop a war
with guns. It is a fact that Colombia is a very violent country.
Children learn from the environment that they live in. Almost
forty percent of children live in poverty. Seventeen percent live
in absolute poverty (DANE Colombia 1995-2000). We have seen children full of hate and
anger who, in order to survive, steal, do drugs, and fight. We
can stop that curse by stopping the cycle. With us they learn
integrity, honesty, commitment, and love through the school of life.
We have excellent, qualified, and caring staff members who are good
role models for the children. We have found that as we help the
children,
they want to help others.
- To have five
children’s homes **
- To have one
medical unit
- To have one
bilingual school
- To be a non-governmental
international organization who is able to help the homeless and
the needy.
- To be the answer
where there is none.
- To rescue lives
that are lost and give them hope.
**Each home would
house 40 to 50 children in an age range of four years and enable
us to care for the children from infancy all the way to adulthood.
This will allow us to provide protection and consistency for the
children as well as customize the environment to meet the specific
needs of every age group.
High-risk children
have a very uncertain future, filled with despair and pain, living
with the curse of their forefathers. Bettering their lives or
changing their circumstances is almost impossible without God's
help. For it is only
God who can break a curse. The philosophy of
Children's Vision International, Inc. is that every child has the
right to be given an opportunity to be happy and to be treated
like an individual. It is our hope that we not only help the child,
but that we reach the family as well; knowing that if you can
reach a family, a nation can be changed. In order to do that, we
are using the following values:
