Overview

Project Restore is our initial program, ongoing since early 2011. For Project Restore, our goal is to find the most vulnerable children and ensure that they and their families receive essential funds to survive. With broadly outlined goals, this gives us the freedom to provide the correct amount of assistance -- with no wasted funds and no insufficient assistance -- and our beneficiaries are provided with a wide range of financial help, depending on age, health, housing and schooling. We're also able to release emergency funds depending on the needs of each child, and in the past have provided money for medical procedures, housing, medicine and additional schooling and tutoring. From the beginning, our beneficiaries in this program have included children with HIV, children who have been orphaned, and children living on the streets.

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Benefits

We're proud of our work with Project Restore because, to us, it represents the best of what charitable giving can be. We follow needs-based, common sense guidelines about helping people, and focus on children living under the worst conditions. The help that Project Restore provides can mean the difference between a child sleeping in a bed or on the streets, or having enough food to eat every day, or being able to go to school for all twelve years. Our students who have "graduated" from this program will enroll in university or a trade school, where they will learn to be self-sufficient and making a big step towards eliminating the cycle of poverty in their families.

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Details

Project Restore is also our most simplistic program, and as such, our expenses remain consistently low. Donations are accepted from our sponsors all over the world, where it is accepted into MCO's primary bank account in the USA. After that, the money is transferred on a monthly basis from the US to Ethiopia, where it is distributed by an MCO social worker (who is employed by MCO and works on other projects for the organization.) Therefore, Project Restore only has two expenses: the transaction fee from sending money to Ethiopia (which is negligible) and the salary paid to the social worker (which currently around 55 USD). The remainder of the funds goes directly to the caretakers or parents of the children, which is typically anywhere between 35-75 USD per child, per month, depending on their individual needs.