2011 HCW Annual Report Final

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HELPING CHILDREWORLDWID

ANNUAL REPOR

2011


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1 CHAIRMANS LETTER

2 BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF

3 WHERE WE WORK6 CHILD RESCUE CENTRE

8 MERCY HOSPITAL

10 CONNECTIONS FOR HOPE

13 PARTNERS

14 FINANCIAL

16 LOOKING AHEAD

CONTENTS


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CHAIRMANS LETTER

Thank you donors, partners and volunteers

who have aithully supported Helping Children

Worldwide (HCW) throughout the past several

years. HCW would not be where it is today

without you. There has been tremendous growth

in the organization, expanding programs and

services to serve more and have a greater

impact. We look orward to the coming years,

continuing to expand our programs and working

with you.

2011 was a year o growth, a year o impact,

and a year o results or HCW. Globally in Sierra

Leone and locally in Northern Virginia, our

programs touched the lives o thousands o

people. Strategic partnerships strengthened

the work o saving lives, changing lives, and

bringing stability to children and amilies in

need. Our programs in Sierra Leone continued

with strong successes with the children and

with providing important hospital-based and

community based healthcare. Our program in

Herndon, Connections or Hope, in existence or

two years, has been identifed as a model that

should be replicated in other areas o

Northern Virginia.

HCW is a humanitarian relie and empowerment

organization that initially started to support the

Child Rescue Centre (CRC) in Sierra Leone as a

street eeding program or 40 children.

The CRC has since grown to support nearly 300

children through a residential center, oster

care program, community support program

and postsecondary education. In 2007, Mercy

Hospital, a 26-bed primary care acility,

was established to meet the abundant and

desperate medical needs o the people in Sierra

Leone. Mercy Hospital has expanded to include

HIV/AIDS, nutrition, prenatal and malaria

community outreach programs.

Seeing the needs in our own community o

Northern Virginia, HCW established Connections

or Hope in 2010, a collaborative nonproft

center housing seven nonprofts and several

county services under one roo. HCW brings

compassion, hope and opportunity to the

poorest people in the world through quality

medical care, education, lie changing guidance

and services.

HCWs purpose is to help impoverished

children, their amilies and communities. We

do this through partnerships and programs o

excellence. We are pleased to be a part o this

work. Join us in celebrating and supporting the

global and local work o HCW.

Sincerely,

Todd Stottlemyer

Chair o HCW Board o Directors

DEAREST SUPPORTER:

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TODD STOTTLEMYER, Chair

CEO

Acentia

CHRIS WELKER, Vice ChairVice President, CITS OU

Northrop Grumman Corporation

KIM MCKINNISH, Treasurer

CFO

National Beer Wholesalers Association

ROB DUSTON, Secretary

Attorney

Saul Ewing LLP

TOM BERLIN

Senior Pastor

Floris United Methodist Church

JEFF BROOKER

General Manager

Thorlabs Imaging Systems

KIRSTEN EDMISTON, M.D.

Surgical Oncologist

Virginia Surgery Associates, P.C.

TALISA ERNSTMANNPresident

Ernstmann Consulting

CYNTHIA HORNER, M.D.

Family Medicine Doctor

Herndon Family Medicine

CLARK MASSIE

President

Tetra Corporation

JILL STELFOX

CFO

Binary Group, Inc.

HELPING CHILDREN WORLDWIDE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

MISSION

Helping Children Worldwide transorms the lives o impoverished

children through partnerships and programs o excellence.

HELPING CHILDREN WORLDWIDE STAFF

SARAH NEWMAN

Executive Director

ROBIN MCGLOTHIN

Development Director

MARY BETH SAMS

Arican Programs Director

KATHLEEN CARON

Administrative Assistant

CYNTHIA GRANT

Arican Programs Administrator

LINDA REINHARD

Arican Programs Administrator

CAROLINA CHAVEZConnections or Hope Receptionist

BOARD OF DIRECTORS & STAFF

Congressman Frank Wol joins with other community leaders including Supervisor John Foust, Supervisor Sharon Bulova,

Supervisor Catherine Hudgins, nonproft partners and HCW board members at the ribbon cutting or Connections or Hope.


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CHILD RESCUE CENTREcaring or nearly 300 children in

desperate situations

MERCY HOSPITALcaring or over 10,000 patients

regardless o their ability to pay

WHERE WE WORK

CONNECTIONS FOR HOPEcollaborative nonproft center serving over

3300 children and amilies in need

US Ambassador to the Republic o Sierra Leone Michael Owen, his wie Annerieke and Sierra Leone Bishop John Yambasu join

with the HCW Board o Directors and our Sierra Leone partners at the compound o the Child Rescue Centre and Mercy Hospital.


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CHILD RESCUE CENTRE

MOST OF LIFES FAILURES ARE PEOPLE WHO

DID NOT UNDERSTAND HOW CLOSE THEY

WERE TO SUCCESS WHEN THEY GAVE UP.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL, AN INDIVIDUAL MUST

ACQUIRE A FIXED CONCENTRATION WHICH

PROGRESSES TO ACHIEVING A GOAL OR AIM.

ALBERT, CRC YOUTHTHROUGH STUDENTS EYES

PHOTO ESSAY PROGRAM



HELPING CHILDREN LEARN, GROWAND BECOME LEADERS

The Child Rescue Centre was established in Sierra Leone in

2000 to serve a population o children who had lost parents and

amilies to the brutal civil war. In 2011, the CRC celebrated

11 years, serving some o the most vulnerable children in the

world. In Sierra Leone, 1 in 5 children will not live to see their

5th birthday, 48% o children have to work instead o going to

school and 60% o the population is illiterate. The CRC is a

remarkable story o survival, perseverance, and loving care or

children to develop into the young leaders that Sierra Leone

needs to address many post-war challenges.

The CRC has sent nearly 100% o eligible youth on to post-

secondary education. In 2011, twenty-one o the CRC youth

were ully engaged in post-secondary education programs that

included university, medical school, certicate programs and

vocational training. In a country where less than 8% receive

this level o education, this is a signicant success or the CRC,

and it will bring positive impact to the community. HCW is

extremely pleased to be able to work with our Sierra Leonean

partners to provide this very successul program.

Ibrahim is one o the twenty-one CRC youth attending post-

secondary education. The impact the CRC has had on his lie

is signicant. In his own words: Because you have helped us,

we have big dreams, and part o those dreams is to help other

people as you have helped us. The CRC children have started

a program to help people in our community. We are building

a house or a woman who cannot aord a good home or her

amily. In the rainy season the home she had beore would wash

out. So we, the CRC children, raised some money to build her anew home. We did the labor. We have done this because o your

example to us. Because you have given to us, so we also need

to give to others.

The CRC is transorming lives, turning war-aected children

into well-adjusted, educated young adults who will be able to

contribute in meaningul ways to rebuilding their country and

become the next generation o leaders in Sierra Leone. The CRC

has become a nationally recognized model or raising at-risk

children in Sierra Leone.

CHILD SUPPORT PROGRAM

In 2011 the CRC supported nearly 300 children and youth

Nearly 200 o these children are part o the CRC Child Support

Program. The Child Support Program provides a loving home

community with other children, ull-time adult supervision and

care, nutritious meals, healthcare and education to children

between the ages o 6-18, rescued rom desperate situations.

Joyce is one o the children in the Child Support Program. She

lives with her ather and siblings. Her single parent struggles to

provide or their welare and Joyces education. Joyce did not go

to school as oten as she wished. In her words she explains how

her lie has changed since being accepted into the Child Suppor

Program: CSP has not only changed my own lie but the lie o

my entire amily. My athers small income was not directed to

the upkeep o my other siblings. This made my siblings unable

to even see the door o the school. My educational situation

became better as my school ees were paid in time, notebooks

and other writing materials were provided and other benets

enjoyed. I was no longer mocked at by school mates or wearing

fabby or torn uniorms. I now count mysel lucky.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF CHILDREN LIKE

IBRAHIM AND JOYCE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT

OF CHILDREN YOU MAY NEVER MEET. THANK YOU FORSUPPORTING THE CRC.


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MERCY HOSPITAL

IN 2011, VILLAGES SERVED BY MERCY

REPORTED 63% REDUCTION IN

MALARIA RATES.

DR. CYNTHIA HORNER

HCW BOARD MEMBER



SMALL HOSPITAL BIG IMPACT

Mercy Hospital was established in Sierra Leone in 2007 to

provide quality medical care regardless o ability to pay. In

2011, Mercy Hospital entered its 4th year o operation. With a

sta o only 39, Mercy Hospital provided high quality medical

care to over 10,000 patients at the hospital. The dedicated sta

and Chie Medical Ocer, Dr. Edries Tejan, are instrumental to

the success o the hospital. Every day is a constant struggle or

survival or so many in Sierra Leone, and nding quality medical

care is challenging. Because o Mercy Hospital, children and

amilies in the Bo community are able to receive medical care

and treatment regardless o their ability to pay.

The neonatal rate, which is the percentage o deaths during the

rst 28 days o a live birth, is 45% in Sierra Leone. One in

twenty-one women will not survive childbirth. Mercy Hospital has

made signicant progress in the Bo region o Sierra Leone in

reducing maternal and inant mortality.

Mercy Hospital has made extraordinary strides in improving acute

care through its 26-bed hospital. The hospital has impacted

thousands o lives in remote areas through the community health

initiative. Story ater story comes back to us about lives others

gave up on, but Mercy saved. A 14-month old baby suering

rom typhoid ever had been treated at another hospital, but the

symptoms were not going away. Theres nothing more we can

do the doctors told the mother. The baby was brought to Mercy

Hospital as a last minute measure, where Dr. Tejan admitted

her and ran a culture to determine the actual pathogen and

the specic types o medications that would cure her inection.

The ability to name the pathogen and understand its antibiotic

resistance is a unique clinical service that is not available

anywhere else in Sierra Leone. As it turned out, the pathogen

was resistant to the medication the baby had been treated with

Within a week o getting treatment with the correct antibiotic

the baby was cured.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Mercy Hospital not only provides medical care to those who come

to the hospital. There is also a team o medical proessionals

who travel to remote villages to provide much needed care and

treatment. In 2011, over 3,000 children and adults received

care through the community outreach programs. The type o

mobile outreach programs that are provided are: HIV/AIDS

nutrition, malaria, and prenatal care.

The medical team travels to a village, sets up in the village

clinic outpost building or other main structure o the village and

proceeds to educate, diagnose, and treat the community. When

a child is brought to the outreach program and tests positive

or malaria, the child will immediately receive the treatment

needed and the parent will be provided with instructions on

administering the medicine. Pregnant women who test positive

or HIV receive treatment and counseling to prevent mother to

child transmission. Malnourished children receive emergency

intervention and nutritional supplementation so they can thrive

allowing them to ocus on school and sleep well at night.

THANK YOU FOR HELPING SAVE CHILDREN FROM DYING

FROM INFECTION BECAUSE THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS ARE

TOO WEAK. THANK YOU FOR HELPING MOTHERS BRING

CHILDREN INTO THE WORLD SAFELY. THANK YOU FOR

YOUR SUPPORT OF MERCY HOSPITAL.


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CONNECTIONS FOR HOPE

WE NEED TO EXPLORE THE INTEGRATION AND

CO-LOCATION OF SERVICES IN A ONE-STOP

FACILITY BASED ON THE CONNECTIONS FOR

HOPE MODEL.

CATHY HUDGINS

SUPERVISOR, HUNTER MILL DISTRICT, FAIRFAX COUNTY



COMMUNITYCOLLABORATIONRESULTS

HCW opened Connections or Hope, a collaborative nonprot

center, in March 2010. The mission o Connections or

Hope is to provide programs and services that oster sel-

suciency, good health, economic independence and improved

participation in the lie o the community. Connections or Hope

is a unique and innovative approach to human services delivery

in Fairax County with a partnership o seven nonprots and one

county agency working together under one roo in an integrated

services center. The strength o this 10,000 sq. t. center is the

collaborative co-location model. Both clients and organizations

benet rom having multiple services housed in one place and

working together with a shared purpose.

In 2011, the partner organizations expanded and lled all

available oce space. The number o households served

increased by 40% rom 2010 to 2011 to over 3300 households

served. Responding to the needs in the community, programs

were added in the areas o pro bono nancial management

counseling and employment services.

Connections or Hope brings large and small organizations

together, all o whom have demonstrated success in their

service to the community. This partnership provides experience

in multiple client services including homelessness prevention

and oreclosure prevention (Reston Interaith), English language

training (Literacy Council o Northern Virginia), homework

assistance or elementary aged children (Vecinos Unidos/

Neighbors United), immigration legal services (Just Neighbors),

mental health, substance abuse and prevention programs and

reerrals (Fairax-Falls Church Community Services Board

[County Agency]), healthcare (Jeanie Schmidt Free Clinic)

and prescriptions or low-income patients o the clinic (NOVA

ScriptsCentral). Each partner brings with them their own network

o resources, which strengthens the work o Connections o

Hope and the success o its mission.

QUIET SURVIVOR MOVING FORWARD

Since coming to the US rom El Salvador more than twenty years

ago, Angelas journey has been a long and dicult one, but she

has never given up. For years, Angela worked several part-time

custodial jobs or hotels and the public school system. When

she lost these jobs, she was unable to make payments on her

home and lost it as well. Soon, she ound hersel and her 10 yea

old son living at a shelter. Her social worker at Reston Interaith

encouraged her to enroll in an English class oered by the

Literacy Council o Northern Virginia at Connections or Hope

so that she would be in a better position to apply or another job

Since completing her rst English class, Angela has participated

in many programs at Connections or Hope. She attended a ree

job workshop, an interview preparation class, a job air and had

her taxes prepared through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance

program. Human Resource volunteers at Connections or Hope

helped Angela create a resume, which led to a ull time job

Angela and her son now live in an apartment.

THANK YOUFOR YOUR SUPPORT OF ANGELA. THANK YOU

FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF COUNTLESS OTHER FAMILIES IN

OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF

CONNECTIONS FOR HOPE.


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rooted in



CONNECTIONS FOR HOPE PARTNERS

FALLS CHURCH-FAIRFAX COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARDMENTAL HEALTH, SUBSTANCE ABUSE ANDPREVENTION SERVICES

JEANIE SCHMIDT FREE CLINIC

QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES FOR UNINSUREDLOW-INCOME CHILDREN AND ADULTS

JUST NEIGHBORS

IMMIGRATION LEGAL SERVICES FOR LOW-INCOMEIMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES

LITERACY COUNCIL OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA

BASIC SKILLS OF READING, WRITING, SPEAKINGAND UNDERSTANDING ENGLISH.

NOVA SCRIPTSCENTRAL

A PRESCRIPTION DRUG SERVICE FOR LOW-INCOMEINDIVIDUALS.

RESTON INTERFAITH

HOUSING ASSISTANCE AND OTHER SUPPORTSERVICES TO INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES IN NEED.

VECINOS UNIDOS NEIGHBORS UNITED

AFTER-SCHOOL HOMEWORK ASSISTANCE FORSTUDENTS IN 1ST6TH GRADES.

OUR PARTNERS

community

AFRICAN PROGRAMS CHURCH PARTNER

BRADDOCK STREET UMC,WINCHESTER, VA

DISCOVERY UMC, RICHMOND, VA

DULIN UMC,FALLS CHURCH, VA

EBENEZER UMC,STAFFORD, VA

FIRST UMC, COLLEYVILLE, TX

FLORIS UMC, HERNDON, VA

GALILEE UMC, STERLING, VA

OAKTON UMC, OAKTON, VA

OSTERVILLE UMC, OSTERVILLE, MA

ST. MATTHEWS UMC, RICHMOND, VA

ST. STEPHENS UMC, BURKE, VA

ST. THOMAS UMC, MANASSAS, VA

WOODLAKE UMC, MIDLOTHIAN, VA


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strength in numbersHELPING CHILDREN WORLDWIDE 2011 INCOME CATEGORIES

HELPING CHILDREN WORLDWIDE 2011 EXPENSES

GRANT/FOUNDATION 19%

INDIVIDUAL 31%

CHURCH 27%

CORPORATION 3%

SPECIAL EVENT 20%

PROGRAMS 91%

FUNDRAISING 6%

ADMINISTRATIVE 3%



STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2011

UNRESTRICTED TEMPORARILY RESTRICTED TOTAL

SUPPORT AND REVENUE

Contributions and oundation grants 80,753 663,116 743,869

Government grant revenue 123,005 - 123,005

In-kind contributions - - -

Investment income 3,690 - 3,690

Rental income 121,647 - 121,647

Special events - 162,284 162,284

Less: Cost o direct donor beneft - (15,588) (15,588)

UMVIM volunteer unds 173,760 - 173,760

Miscellaneous 23,386 - 23,386

Net assets released rom restrictions 936,007 (936,007) -

TOTAL SUPPORT AND REVENUE 1,462,248 (126,195) 1,336,053

EXPENSES

Program services:

Arican programs

Child Rescue Centre 361,276 - 361,276Mercy Hospital 239,900 - 239,900

UMVIM volunteer trips 169,196 - 169,196

Connections or Hope 577,364 - 577,364

Supporting services:

Management and general 40,304 - 40,304

Fundraising 94,141 - 94,141

TOTAL EXPENSES 1,482,181 - 1,482,181

Changes in net assets (19,933) (126,195) (146,128)

Net assets, beginning o year 416,687 951,815 1,368,502

NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR 396,754 825,620 1,222,374


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bearing frui

Through collaborative eorts, Helping Children Worldwide has embraced

visions that will expand each o our programs and result in measurable

outcomes and identiable impact over the next two to ten years.

CHILD RESCUE CENTRE VISIONTransorm the existing Child Rescue Centre programs into replicable

and sustainable programs o excellence designed to gradually repatriate

tracked children into nurturing amilies in local communities.

MERCY HOSPITAL VISIONAchieve a measureable decrease in the inant and maternal mortality rates

in Sierra Leone by providing holistic, community-ocused care, regardlesso ability to pay.

CONNECTIONS FOR HOPE VISIONCreate a successul, sustainable model or replicating two additional

Connections or Hope centers in Northern Virginia to address the growing

needs o our low-income neighbors, ostering sel-suciency, good health,

education, saety and ull participation in community lie.

Please join us in supporting the thousands o children and amilies

whose lives will be transormed through the programs o Helping Children

Worldwide.

LOOKING AHEAD


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