Featured Program:
Learn about Children First, COCI's support of orphans and poverty stricken children in Kenya.

Featured Fundraising:

Sedona Marathon
February 9, 2008
Sedona, CA

COCI expects to expand its support in 2008 to vulnerable children in Kenya, Romania, Serbia, Israel, Mexico and the United States. As of January 2008, COCI is now also supporting programs in Nigeria and Sudan. In order to accomplish its program objectives, COCI needs to raise over $600,000 in unrestricted funds from the public.

 

Serbia

 

Provide transportation to institutionalized and disabled children to educational, recreational, and cultural activities. COCI is working to re-open a Kindergarten and to establish a Resource Center at the school to provide services for all special needs children in the County of Kostajnica.

 

Romania

 

Continue development of a farm where Romanian street children can live, be educated and learn agricultural skills in a safe, nurturing environment.

 

Provide food, medicine, and counseling to 40 desperately poor families with HIV positive children in rural Romania, and facilitate their integration into the community through educating the general public on the nature of the disease.

 

Kenya

 

Provide sole support to Children First, a daycare facility serving 15 resident orphans, over 70 children in the pre-school program and 28 outreach homestead caring for over 60 orphans. In addition to having their basic needs met, the children receive medical attention, attend classes and participate in gardening in a family like setting.

 

Provide sole support for an outreach program that services 27 destitute families housing orphaned children, mostly victims of the AIDS epidemic.

 

Nigeria

 

Provide the children of the Lagos Home for Motherless Babies with the basic necessities of life.

 

Sudan

 

Provide reproductive health and primary health care services at the ElWidha Clinic and the Nyala Women's Prison in Nyala Town in Darfur.

 

Israel

 

Expand Bridge to Peace, a program operating in 80 poverty stricken areas that has significantly improved relations between Arab and Jewish children through participation in a soccer program that promotes teamwork.

 

Mexico

 

Give needed assistance to children in the impoverished village of La Calichera in Reynosa Mexico by funding a classroom and providing educational materials for the existing school.

 

USA

 

Provide infant formula in Houston on an emergency only basis

 

Provide educational programs and counseling in Houston for children of incarcerated parents

 

Cherish Our Children International is a fully qualified 501C(3) non profit organization—Tax ID number 76-0393617.