Showing Our Impact Through Stories of Hope

Our blog series highlights the areas in which we help children in need

Whether through our sponsorship program or through our special funds or special projects, we help tens of thousands of children around the world each year — thanks entirely to the support of our sponsors and donors. Children Incorporated supports children in many different ways, all of which fall under four areas of impact — education, health and well-being, emergency relief and community support. Our focus on these four key areas…

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Watching Kids Grow Up in Guadalajara

After visiting the second of three of our affiliated sites in Mexico, it was time for Ron Carter, Yefiny Mena, and myself to travel from San Miguel de Allende to Guadalajara, where we would be meeting with our volunteer coordinator[…]

Supporting Young Girls’ Independence

After a wonderful visit to Casa Santa Ines in Mexico City, I couldn’t wait for our President and CEO, Ron Carter, to visit our next affiliated site, Santa Julia, which is a four-hour bus ride away in San Miguel de[…]

Benefiting Now While Thinking About the Future

The Touch a Life Center is administered from home for girls in Colombo. The Ceylon Association supports the home, but Children Incorporated sponsorship provides additional support to other needs for the augmentation of nutritional intake of the girls and providing[…]

Our Feeding Program at Work in Guatemala

Santa Isabel Ana Seton is located in Guatemala City, the capital of Guatemala. It opened its doors to children in 2006 and since then, Sor Ana Julia Hernandez has been our coordinator. Out of the 390 students attending the school[…]

A Need for Beds at Lou Ann Long

As our Director of International Programs Luis Bourdet continues his travels in India visiting our affiliated sites in the country, he tells us about the Lou Ann Long Girls’ Hostel, in which children in our program are in need of[…]

We Need Help to End Hunger for Children in Need

Dear Friends, I recently went on my first ever cruise to the Bahamas and Mexico, and I must say I truly enjoyed the experience. The sunrises over the ocean each morning were breathtaking, and the brush of the waves against[…]

Assessing the Damage After Hurricane Helene

Thanks to our amazing donors, our Hurricane Helene Relief Fund raised over $25,000 to support families in North Carolina. We can’t thank you all enough for all your support during this critical time of need. As the counties where we[…]

Helping Families After Hurricane Helene

The news about the devastation of Hurricane Helene has been heartbreaking, as families find themselves no longer with homes and the safety of their communities. Children Incorporated is affiliated with schools in four counties where children have been affected by[…]

A Catastrophe with Continuing Impacts

Letcher County is in the southeastern part of Kentucky. It is bordered by four other Kentucky counties and Wise County, Virginia. The county seat, Whitesburg, is located in the middle of the county. As European explorers and the earliest settlers[…]

Social Work for Social Kids

This Center operates from the Social Service Area of Casa Central School and compound. The Center is located in the heart of Guatemala City, and serves children of the periphery of the city from low income families, mostly without a[…]

November 2024 Impact Report

Our volunteer coordinator, Ashley, at Blackwell Elementary School in Virginia, wrote to thank all our sponsors for their endless support of children in need, which offers her peace of mind throughout the year: “I want to express my sincere gratitude[…]

Actively Helping Children in Need

We are thrilled to announce our new partnership with Muddy Kids! Thanks to their generosity, Muddy Kids will be donating a portion of funds from each Muddy Kids event in 2025 to Children Incorporated. “We believe that Children Incorporated’s incredible[…]

Increasing Aid to Those that Need It the Most

The Chrishanti Center has grown over the years in order to help more families in the community

We departed India to reach Sri Lanka, a country with beautiful beaches, forests, national reserves with many exotic animals, numerous resources and a large production of tea and minerals, but with a tremendous history of trouble in military and politics. In Sri Lanka (formerly known as Ceylon), Children Incorporated currently has three support programs: Chrishanti Lama Sevana Center, Touch a Life Home Center, and Wijewardane Home. The Chrishanti Center is located in the Kirulapone area […]

Help Us Honor Our Founder, Mrs. Jeanne Clarke Wood

A Letter from our CEO and President, Ron Carter

Dear Friends, I will turn 66 years old on December 2, 2024, and quite frankly, while I do not feel all that old, I have to admit I have many years behind me. My hope and prayer is that I have accomplished good things in my lifetime and that I have somehow positively impacted the lives of those who have walked life’s journey alongside me. Children Incorporated also has a lot of years behind it; […]

Giving Mothers Peace of Mind in Mexico

Casa Santa Ines helps girls with only one parent receive an education

When I was told that I would accompany the President and CEO of Children Incorporated, Ron Carter, on his first visit to Mexico with our organization, I was beyond excited. It would be my third time seeing our affiliated sites in this magnificent country, but I knew that seeing it with Ron would be a whole new experience and one that I looked forward to immensely. In preparation for our trip, Ron and I spoke […]

Reaching Significant Milestones

Cowan Elementary School's growth is a sign of progress

Cowan Elementary School, located off State Highway 931 in the Dongola community, just south of Whitesburg, the county seat, serves children from kindergarten through eighth grade. It’s worth noting that Dongola, the school’s physical address, lost its post office, so the school’s mailing address is now Whitesburg. With a growing student population of about 287, Cowan Elementary School is reaching a significant milestone. For many years, its Family Resource Youth Services Center has been combined […]

Our October 2024 Impact Report

Thank you for supporting children in need this past month

One of the best ways to express the importance of our work — all thanks to our sponsors and donors — is by sharing letters from our volunteer coordinators worldwide. Linda, at Highland-Turner Elementary School in Kentucky, recently wrote to us to express her sincere gratitude for you, our amazing sponsors: “These children who are now adults will never forget the kindness of strangers who decided to become sponsors and then friends.” Linda’s Letter “Your support […]

Our Fall 2024 Newsletter

Honoring Our Founder, Jeanne Clarke Wood

In October 1964, Mrs. Jeanne Clarke Wood started a non-profit children’s organization called Children Incorporated. What began with just 95 sponsored children in Guatemala quickly escalated to helping 1600 children in 10 countries within just two short years. Today, Children Incorporated has sponsorship programs in 20 countries worldwide and provides tens of thousands of impoverished children with clothing and school supplies, medical care, and many other types of assistance. Thanks to our donors, schools, dormitories, […]

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