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Shaping Destiny
is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit charitable organization founded
to serve disadvantaged children. Shaping Destiny's role is:
- To meet
the basic needs of disadvantaged children
- To invest in
children and their families through education and
activities that help children and their families develop
self-sustaining life skills and businesses.
- To
advocate for the protection of children's rights.
- To promote equal
rights of girls and women to education and participation
in public life.
Our goal is
to work with other organizations to ensure that all children
worldwide are given the opportunity to develop to their full
potential. To do this, Destiny advocates for and serve
disadvantaged children such as:
victims
of HIV/AIDs,
victims of disaster,
victims of destitution,
victims of war
victims of violence
victims of exploitation (genital mutilation, slavery,
prostitution)
Shaping
Destiny carries out its work through country representatives
and draws motivation from James 1:27 that
says
"Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is
this: to visit disadvantaged children and widows in their trouble,
and
to keep oneself unspotted from the world".
In accordance with Shaping Destiny's vision, Shaping Destiny believes
strongly that all people should support
disadvantaged children. As
such, Shaping Destiny provides support, love, comfort, and encouragement to
disadvantaged children
many of whom have lost both parents to HIV/AIDs and to other
catastrophes. Shaping Destiny believes that all
disadvantaged children can
regain their smiles, hope and joy if all people around the
world would come together to support them. Such an effort
would give them something to live for and transform them and
their communities for ever. In addition to helping
disadvantaged children, Shaping Destiny also believes that helping other qualified poor children and poor communities
is also something that all people should strive to do.
Besides the spiritual and moral support (including the love,
encouragement, mentoring, gospel etc) Shaping Destiny provides physical support for the
disadvantaged children that our
partners and sponsors enable us to help.
Physical support include:
medical care,
education, job training and empowerment, food and clothing.
In addition to this, Shaping Destiny also meets other basic
needs and tries to fill, as much as much as possible, the
parental void that the loss of loved ones has created in the
lives of these children while recognizing that God is the
father of the fatherless and mother of motherless.
Shaping Destiny has worldwide vision to reach
all who are living in poverty everywhere. At the moment, Shaping Destiny
is operating
in two provinces in Cameroon, West Africa.
We are operating in Momo division (Northwest Province) and in Douala. ( Littoral
Province). The organization plans to move to other areas and
countries and serve there too.
Mission:
Shaping Destiny's mission is to change the
future by investing in poor disadvantaged children and poor communities in
Africa and around the world. As a Christian charitable
organization, Shaping Destiny's greatest implement for change is the
LOVE of God through the Lord, Christ Jesus. So
Shaping Destiny pragmatically
spreads the love of Jesus Christ. Shaping Destiny aims to bridge the gap of
poverty and decrease suffering by doing the following:
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Reach out in
love to
disadvantaged children
, widows
and poor communities
providing education and job training,
healthcare,
food,
shelter,
recreation,
spiritual
growth. Our short term goals are to provide these basic
needs but not to end there. As part of meeting future
needs, Shaping Destiny will develop and implement training models
that teach local Africans to develop sustainable
healthcare systems, sustainable income generating
activities for widows and other poor people so as to
empower change their communities.
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Train and support
missionaries and teachers of the gospel of Christ around the world.
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Open centers and
shelters
to cater for the need of God's children around
the world.
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Support churches and
provide emergency relief in disaster stricken areas.
Strategy:
Shaping Destiny's strategy is simple yet profound: Meet their
present needs and at the same time, train and
empower them to take up the leading role of providing
for themselves and their communities in the future.
Training in financial management and investment,
training of nurses and other medical officials are some
of the ways we will meet our goals.
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