Cherish Our Children International has raised and distributed over $6 million to support these and other programs:

• Completed a highly sucessful grades 1-6 tutoring program for children from Belgrade, Serbia orphanages. Every child passed with many attaining honors status.

• Supported a job training program for 40 HIV+ teenagers in Iasi, Romania.

• Purchased land and provided funds for construction of a new dormitory and school building for Children First located in the slums of Kisumu, Kenya, where it serves 15 resident orphans, over 70 children in the pre-school program and 28 outreach homestead caring for over 60 orphans.

•  Has provided support for a Romanian physician who has delivered food, clothing, and medicine to 70 destitute rural families with at least one HIV+ child.

• Working with Hurricane Katrina child survivors in Houston, we coordinated housing, education, and the location of relatives through a specially COCI designed web site, and provided formula to babies, through Life Houston.

• Funded a mother/child shelter to prevent the abandonment of more than 100 babies in Bucharest, Romania.

• Funded temporary pre-adoptive foster homes in Romania to help children make the transition from institutions to family life.

• Funded model family style group homes in Romania for abandoned children with HIV disease.

• Funded an HIV testing/counseling center in Constanta, Romania to prevent the vertical transmission of the disease from mother to child.

• Established a medical/nutritional care model for HIV+ children with limited resources in Constanta, Romania.

• Teaching post-institutionalized “handicapped” teens the skills necessary for self-sufficiency in a residential environment in Turnu Severin, Romania.

• Trained pre-school teachers in Montessori methodologies and provided materials to open Montessori classrooms for disadvantaged children in Turnu Severin, Romania.

• Supported art therapy for over 1,000 abandoned children in Romanian orphanages.

• Developed a model community-service child development center and provided caregiver training for children with special needs in Iasi, Romania.

• Brought physical therapy techniques to over 300 child caregivers in Eastern Europe.

• Provided emergency relief to an orphanage with 100 children in Iasi, Romania after government funds were exhausted and there was no money left for caregiver salaries or food for the children.

• Re-built kindergartens in Sarajevo so that more than 1,250 children could attend school.

• Established a Children’s Resource Center in Belgrade, Serbia that provides social intervention and transportation services to over 1,400 children from institutions and outlying low income areas.