Giving hope for a hopeful future!
Join Elpizo in our mission to give hope to the school-going orphans and the needy!
Who We Are
Our Mission: Giving hope for a hopeful future.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Our Story
I was raised in a broken home. I lived in the same house with my mother and father, and my siblings, yet I did not feel any love or affection. A child's life without the love and affection of the closest people she/he has known is excruciating. My life was not better than the orphan. I had the physical presence of both parents but felt like an orphan. I cannot imagine what it will feel like without the physical presence of parents, and life's basic supplies to pursue life and dreams, and hope for a brighter tomorrow. The statistics are alarming and scary:
- The SOS Children’s Villages estimates that there are about 153 million orphan children worldwide. Out of this number, around 1 in 4 children are engaged in child labor (UNICEF).
- An estimated 61 million primary-school-age children are out of school; 53% of them are girls (UNICEF). There are 69 million children worldwide who suffer from malnutrition (World Bank)
- In 2017, 75% of malnourished children lived in less developed regions (WHO). Nearly half of all deaths in children under the age of 5 can be attributed to undernutrition, resulting in the unnecessary loss of about 3 million young lives a year (UNICEF). 66 million primary-school-age children attend classes hungry across the developing world, with 23 million in Africa alone WHO).
The statistics show that there are many orphans, but the story does not end there. Just like myself, there are a greater number of children who feel orphaned. By providing both the orphans and the orphaned healthy living, loving environment, shelter, and educational resources, we can provide them with a hopeful future; and that is what Elpizo stands for: Giving HOPE for a hopeful future. Join the cause by donating to support.
Philosophy: Giving HOPE through generosity in any means possible for a hopeful future!
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