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MISSION & FUTURE VISION

MISSION STATEMENT

CRY is a Christian charity dedicated to caring for disadvantaged, destitute and suffering children, young people and their families
CRY aims to rescue and restore young lives broken by exclusion, abuse, oppression and poverty and to provide appropriate opportunities for a better future.

Also check out our Guiding Principles and Project Involvement Criteria pages.

VISION FOR THE FUTURE
CRY’s Vision for the Future CRY has come from a background of initiating, supporting and managing projects directed at children at risk. Early projects worked with children living on the streets and provided residential care for them. In recent years, CRY has successfully been providing funding for the on-going running costs of various programmes and also, when grants have been obtained, to make one-off donations to help projects usually with building renovation work, together with equipment and furniture.

The programmes have been many and various ranging from working with street kids, children at risk, children’s homes, education, health promotion, agriculture, HIV/AIDS, day centres, drug rehab, family programmes, support for war orphans etc, and also in a variety of different nations. We have worked in just about every case with a local Christian church, providing the resources and help generally for them to carry the responsibility for the programmes, so they are in fact ministering to the poor in their own locality.

CRY’s objectives have been, to minister through the various projects, to those in greatest need. This has been achieved through residential care, family support, foster care, independence training, etc. Many of these children have had the opportunity to experience love, affection and security for the first time in their lives and it is this outcome which CRY wishes to continue to provide.

Whilst there is still significant need in all of the Countries which have CRY supported projects, many of these Countries are now developing their own Social Care systems and our priority must be to impact in those Countries with the less developed systems and the greatest need. Our emphasis will remain with those in greatest need – basically the poorest of the poor, which might include reaching Unreached People Groups.

Alongside the direct care of children and their families recent experience has shown the benefits of providing finance to enable projects to set up programmes which will provide employment, income and self sufficiency. CRY’s objective will always be that of discouraging dependency on “Western Aid” and in this context development of seed funding/ business loans will be considered as preferred options before commitments to revenue funding.

CRY will therefore continue to develop the methodology - all financial commitments to Projects being based on specific fundraising through grants, sponsorship and direct giving. CRY’s fundraising in any one year is based on known need and the targets set as a faith-based commitment.

To our many loyal supporters and friends, thank you for placing confidence in us as we continue to “…rescue and restore young lives broken by poverty, oppression, exclusion and abuse to the glory of God!

The CRY Executive Board