Facilitate the wholistic formation of Orphans and Vulnerable children through provision of quality care and support.

Goal:

1. Facilitate the wholistic (spiritual, emotional, social, physical and academic/intellectual/skills) formation of Orphans and Vulnerable children through provision of quality care and support throughout their formation years by coming alongside proven local churches and institutions that provide the necessary family environment that is critical to this formation.
2. Facilitate the breaking of the cycle so prevalent amongst OVC families of poverty, illiteracy, lostness, teenage pregnancy, school dropout, vulnerability to HIV, rebellion, alcohol and drug abuse, physical-emotional abuse, etc.
3. Raise a pool of empowered and transformed men and women who will become role models and mentors in the community with a testimony of overcoming the depressing realities of vulnerability due to being orphaned, abused, neglected, abled differently or raised in poverty.  “Life Change creates Life Changers
4. Provide opportunities to willing partners for investing in a mutually life empowering and transforming experience as an OVC undergoes the wholistic formations.

Model:

• LEFTI comes alongside strategically selected and willing agents of transformation, i.e., a local Church (primarily) or a Christian school that are engaged in the outreach of OVCs; for the purpose of empowerment in this outreach that will lead to greater transformation (quality and quantity).
• Implement the distribution of received funds per sponsored child as determined by the Local Church Team that oversees the OVC Outreach Ministry and in the following areas: