A Child's Hope International, Inc.

Conclusion

A Child's Hope International, Inc. meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

Purpose

Stated Purpose:
Guided by the love of Jesus, A Child's Hope Int'l works with trusted partners in Cincinnati and around the world to help children thrive by providing families in extreme need with access to food, clean water, education and critical care.

Year, State Incorporated:
2008, OH

Programs

Our strategy has three components: Humanitarian Relief, Family Strengthening and Orphan Care.  Below are some specifics about each of these components.

1.Humanitarian Relief
As advocates for orphans and vulnerable children, we reach thousands of children daily with critically needed supplies that nourish the body and the soul in the form of high protein meals, clean water, medical care, critical care supplies, and life-giving hope.

a.Hope Boxes®
Last year we welcomed over 11,000 guests from diverse backgrounds to the Hope Factory™ to pack high protein rice-based meals as engaged solution providers to meet the needs of hungry children. These meals are the critical component in Hope Boxes® which empower mission partners to deliver Good Food, Good Water, and the Good News of Jesus to children in need.

Since 2008, A Child’s Hope Int’l has delivered over 63 million high-protein meals, through mission partners. These partners eagerly anticipate these lifesaving kits.  One partner on the continent of Africa has renamed these meals to be “Miracle Food,” because of the transformational benefits he observed firsthand that these meals provide for children in extreme need. 

During 2025, our aim is to provide 3.4 million Hands Against Hunger® high protein meals in 15,740 Hope Boxes® to children living on the edge.  Hope Boxes® are typically transported internationally in 20-ton amounts in shipping containers either leased or purchased for our mission partners on the ground.

The Hope Box® platform allows us to engage the community in realistic volunteer opportunities through meal packing events, with direct lifesaving results:
- Provides a family friendly environment for making a difference, where all volunteers are welcomed and engaged, even those with limited abilities or challenges.
- Provides a tool for families, schools, corporations, and churches to use as awareness raising about hunger, water, and poverty crises as well as a hands-on resource (a learning laboratory) teaching others their responsibility in giving back to the community.
- Provides a venue where people are moved to respond to the complex needs of children living in crisis.

Hope Boxes® provide a gateway through which we can provide deeper work that strengthens families, cares for orphans, and provides lasting relief.

b.Deeper Initiatives.
Once the immediate humanitarian relief needs are met, there are opportunities to go deeper in many communities. These include the provision of clean water wells, water filtration technology, basic medical care in unserved areas, sanitation facilities where none exist, and meeting other immediate, basic needs.

To date, A Child’s Hope Int’l has provided the following:
- Built 80 clean water wells in India, Ghana, and Kenya, transforming the lives of those who never had access to clean water.
- Through the ICRP (Integrated Community Restoration Program) provided 5 deep clean water wells, medical services to over 52,000 people annually and a toilet facility in rural Ghana.
- Across Africa and Asia there are growing opportunities to provide deeper impact through holistic interventions that lead to sustainability.

2.Family Strengthening
We support families at risk by providing community-based tools designed to overcome vulnerabilities, preserve the family unit, and help it to thrive.

Some of these programs include:
- Locally in Cincinnati, 450 low-income families are provided with hunger-free weekends through our Hope Sacks™ program. In 2024, Hope Sacks™ provided 64,800 weekend meals as we expanded from 150 families served to 450 families served every weekend.  Hope Sacks™ serve children in three high-need neighborhoods, as a collaborative effort with other local organizations.   In addition, over $2 million in donated food and basic needs were redistributed through our warehouse to over 40 local food pantries and ministries, assisting with food insecurity in the tri-state area.
- Locally we provide supports to families engaged in adoption or foster care. Through financial grants to assist with adoption costs as well as counseling and special medical needs and relational supports, our aim is to provide release valves so that adoptive families thrive long term.
- In India we provide pre-natal, birthing, and post-natal care for over 200 moms each month who are considered untouchables and who otherwise face despair.  We also provide ongoing care for their young children through age three.
- In the Dominican Republic we provide support for a daycare setting that is meeting the basic needs of Haitian refugee children.  This setting provides a safe place for children living in deep poverty during the day and then they return to their families each night.

3.Orphan Care
We care holistically for orphans and vulnerable children by working alongside indigenous partners so they may experience the transforming and restorative power of God’s love. Our aim is to provide for the current needs of children who are cared for in orphanages while also helping them to thrive in the future.

To date, these opportunities have been focused on India, Haiti, Uganda, and Kenya. However, there are more opportunities arising.  Interventions are led by indigenous leaders who also are connected to local churches who can meet not only the physical needs, but also their spiritual needs.

Interventions include: 
- Access to education for children considered outcaste in Kakinada, India.
- Vocational training of children and teenagers at risk of human trafficking in India to provide them a secure future.
- A sustainable agriculture initiative in Kenya for vocational training of children and sustainable funding streams for orphanages / children’s homes.  In 2024 we funded a deep water well that is providing sustainable agriculture as well as providing an entire village with water.
- Provision of local nutritional supports for orphanages in Haiti where Hope Boxes® cannot be shipped.

For the year ended December 31, 2023, A Child's Hope International, Inc.'s program expenses were:

Governance & Staff

Chief Executive
Jerry Shannon, Executive Director

Chair of the Board
Mr. Doug Peters, Board Chairperson

Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation

Board Size
8

Paid Staff Size
6

Fundraising

Method(s) Used:
Direct mail appeals, Invitations to fund raising events, Print advertisements (newspapers, magazines, etc.), Radio, Grant proposals, Internet, Cause-related marketing (affinity credit cards, consumer product sales, etc.), Appeals via Social Media (Facebook, etc.)

Tax Status

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

Financial

The following information is based on A Child's Hope International, Inc.'s audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023.

Source of Funds

Programs: 97% Fundraising: 1% Administrative: 2%