| “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” ~ Winston Churchill
Orphans are a quiet crisis in our nation that many people do not know it exists or do not pay enough attention to. There are approximately 400,000 children living today in the American foster care system.
Each year, over 27,000 youth age out of the foster care without the emotional, educational and financial support necessary to succeed. Per CCAI “Facts and Statistics” website page: “Nearly 40% had been homeless or couch surfed, nearly 60% of young men had been convicted of a crime, and only 48% were employed. 75% of women and 33% of men receive government benefits to meet basic needs. 50% of all youth who aged out were involved in substance use and 17% of the females were pregnant.”
A former foster youth from Colorado said: "If you jump from foster home to foster home to foster home, if they just randomly move you … like they did us, it's just like, it throws you completely off balance and then like if you were feeling secure then you are completely insecure because you don't know where you are at or who you are with."
All Hearts Foundation - through its mission - has a long-standing solution for this crisis and the problems it generates:
To offer orphans the possibility to quickly secure a stable well-paid job based on the skills acquired during the twelve-year special curriculum school (regular school courses combined with vocational courses such as nursing, medical billing, computer programming, foreign languages, etc.).
And we do not need foster parents or any foster institution to fulfill our mission because the housing, clothing and food will be provided by our foundation as well. Everything will be organized like a campus: housing, school and foundation administrative office in one well-secured place.
Our foundation will be the orphans’ boat floating steadily to the shore that will save them from the angry ocean life threw them on without a fault of their own. But we cannot build up this boat without your help.
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