Children in Need
Children are among the weakest victims of repressive systems.
CSI Assists victimized children in:
Egypt
Child labor is widespread in Egypt despite the Egyptian government's commitment to eradicate it. According to the US State Department in its human rights report, up to 1.5 million children between the ages of 12 and 18 are employed.
- Beni Suef, a rural area, is one of the poorest areas of Egypt with an illiteracy of around 44 percent. In Egypt, the average illiteracy is 22 percent.
- CSI supports a Coptic-orthodox primary school for Christian and Muslim children.
Latvia
About 80 percent of the Latvian population lives under the legally determined poverty line. However, the state has insufficient aid resources at its disposal to help. As a result of the extreme poverty, parents are abandoning their children.
- CSI supports Mission Pakapieni (Steps) and distributes family aid throughout the country. Nearly 300 needy families with thousands of children received aid through Mission Pakapieni.
Nicaragua
Approximately 50 percent of the population in Nicaragua is below the age of 18, and there has been an alarming increase in child involvement in crime, both as victims and as perpetrators.
- CSI works together with the order of Carmelite Sisters. The sisters run a school center and soup kitchens in Santa Rosa, one of the poorest areas in Managua. They also offer families and needy children medical assistance.
Peru
There are an estimated 400,000 street children and child laborers in Lima, the capital of Peru, alone. Many such children come from refugee families from the mountain regions of Huancavelica and Ayacucho. They fled to escape the bloody conflicts between the military and the terrorist rebel organization Shining Path. Some children have lost their families in the fighting.
- CSI has established a center for street children called "Intergracion y Solidaridad". They get a primary education with workshops in handicraft sewing and knitting. The center takes care of about 270 children.
Romania
After the 1989 Romanian revolution, CSI wanted to offer the children of Romania an alternative model to the horrible legacy of the Communist past in the form of a Christian family upbringing. This is how, in the early 1990's, the first plans for the establishment of a CSI Children's Village, called Hope for Children, came into being.
- Three houses have been built for married Christian couples, who are providing foster care for orphans and abandoned children.
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