29/07/2021
Hope In Crisis Foundation at a glance
As poverty is indisputably one of the key factors that have towed many into dreadful circumstances, crisis when faced in most instances people are not able to resolve alone, the need to give humane attention is a call for all. The inability to face or handle circumstances that surface, in most circumstances habitually leads to hopelessness that threatens lives.
This state of affairs is not restricted to just one individual, it shouldn’t be handled solitarily, especially when it is life endangering. As any other human being would like to obtain some form of assistance to support an adverse life condition, those who find themselves in the heat of crisis and are not capable of finding a way out, experience gaps of hopelessness they anticipate families, friends and loved ones to fill. When the expected outreach seems not forthcoming, the crisis is every so often worsened by hopelessness that without delay shatters lives.
Hope In Crisis Foundation Liberia (HICF-L) has visualized this fissure that exists between the crisis and lives that are endangered by the condition. Understanding that when a life is threatened, the vulnerable person is at all times looking forward to having someone to stand by them in their crisis, the focus of HICFL through its programs, is to fill some of the gaps by bringing a living hope to reanimate lives.
The advised programs are envisioned to primarily classify those lives that are visually threatened, provide some considerations and interventions, to be preceded by some effective and reanimating approaches. These approaches are to be discussed and concluded with the will, consent and participation of the vulnerable (s) for a sustainable improvement of their condition.
Vision: A living hope in crisis.
Mission: To fill gaps created by life-threatening crises through smart goals.
Working toward succeeding on this mission, effective smart (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, & Time-bound) goals have been established and to support in presenting an animated and tangible realization, that the beneficiaries are not alone, HICF Liberia stands by them.
Primary Beneficiaries: Challenged and hopeless women and children at risk from every background.
Our Programs OF Intervention
Hand of Hope Enterprising
Enterprise plays a fundamental role in improving the standard of living affected by poverty. In emerging economies, women’s role in lessening poverty through enterprise has long been unheeded as parties to supporting families and society because they are poor. As poor women lack the capital required for enterprise start-ups, their conditions are deepened by hopelessness and are sometimes forced to marginalize or some forms of unwholesome lives that may endanger their lives. HICF-L defines micro-enterprising as the provision of financial and livelihood development services (loan, savings, small-scale business training) to the vulnerable women and adolescent girls at risk, who usually do not have funding to begin such life support initiatives. With a very small interest on the loan intended to make provision for others that may be identified in phases of the program, the small scale micro-enterprise will provide training, income and improve livelihood for women whose lives are on the brink of failure.
Education Hope Restoration (EHR)
Persuasively, education is one of the key essentials that brightens one's hope for the future. As it is obtained with the availability of funding and relevant support, many adolescent girls whose families are not financially capable to support their education, a hope for a future, are obliged to turn to alternatives that may ruin their future. Such a gap is seen by HICF-L as a serious threat to their lives and the society at large.
By intervention, HICF-L goes beyond the beneficiary at risk to establish the realities or the story behind the crisis. Once established by a defined scrutiny, funding is solicited from Friends of Christ Ministries of All People (a local church in Liberia) and Funders who develop concern for supporting the intervention; and provided to intuitions where the beneficiaries may obtain the immediate education. Moreover, providing educational aid is not measured as a sustainable approach; formerly, if the beneficiary has the motivation and proven potential to engage in some income generation activities, they are encouraged and supported to prepare for taking over their educational liabilities through a self-help initiative. HICF-L will assess the beneficiary for a possible consideration of a future EHR Project, to be jointly identified by HICF-L and the beneficiary for subsequent facilitation by EHR Program. Undertaking a project for future support is a key criteria that is used to examine if a beneficiary is to be considered for the EHR program.
Health Care Hospitality (HCH)
Health is viewed as an engine for life. Health supports life. Owing to poverty, there can be grave health conditions encountered by the extremely poor that may hinder daily attempts to fend for living. Once a beneficiary’s health condition is deplorable in the face of the absence of funding to seek medical redress, and families or friends are not able to contribute or support, HICF-L, in very crucial cases, may intervene to save a life.
HICF-L seeks to solicit funding support to mitigate a health crisis that may lead to impairment or death. Our animators do hold health talks in communities where people are encouraged to go to the hospital when they are sick. If a case of extremity due to the lack of funding is established and reported from the community, HCH program comes in to provide a supportive immediate accompaniment.
A profile is compiled in favor of the victim where the story of why the state of affairs was reached, including the pre-ill life activities that may help HCH to get a profound understanding of her standard of living. It is believed that extreme poverty in most cases might lead to such devastating health conditions. There is likelihood to discuss the possibility of involving into a self-support project in order to prepare for future health crises.
Food Security Support (FSS)
Food insecurity in Liberia is evident and is mounting by the day. With many who can afford to fend for their families continue in the face of the increasing economic hardships and challenges, the very poor women and adolescent girls at risk do stand to experience the worst of the dilemma. Many go to bed with little to feed on, while the majority of the less fortunate do with hunger. Food insecurity is one of the endangering conditions that has the potential to threaten lives. The lack of food in many homes has left a lot of women and girls vulnerable to abuses and marginalization in society, because they need to live. The lack of food for a very poor, sick or aged person is a gap that calls for attention.
HICF-L has embarked on a Food Security Support (FFS) program that is intended to reach out and provide food rations to the very poor, sick and aged women. This food rations that includes rice and oil for the moment, has revived a lot of hungry women.
Besides, since the outbreak of Ebola and Covid-19, the number of single female parents who are left to fend for their children due to the loss of spouses continues to increase in the communities. Without any form or source of funding, work, entrepreneurship, the likelihood of these women being exposed to threats or abuses is inevitable.
HICF-L intervention is not to provide solely immediate solutions, we push for sustainable and smart initiatives that would gradually challenge, deliver and transform the condition. By that, self-initiatives that will restore hope for food security support are the focus of HICF-L. We stand by them to lead them into a self-decided food security through livelihood project that is achievable.
