Approximately seventy percent of the children cared for and educated by The GOD'S CHILD Project are from exceptionally poor, yet generally positively-focused, families. These children are encouraged by the Project to stay with their natural families rather than to try life on their own or on the streets. Due to the severity of the poverty of these families, the Project provides food, medical and dental care, clothing, education and educational supplies, bus fare, crisis intervention, health-care workshops, and family development training.
Social and family problems that these children may face as they grow up, although not necessarily be involved with personally, include alcoholism, physical/sexual/emotional abuse, assault, abandonment, prostitution, disease, violation of their human/civil/natural rights, feelings of social helplessness, and lack of credible authorities from whom to seek help.
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