Areas of Work

Extreme Poverty

Millions of children around the world live with extreme poverty. Their lack of multiple provisions, such as nutrition, nurture, education and security affects their health, well-being and hope for the future.
These children are deprived of many of the basic rights due to every child. It can be almost impossible for families in these situations to lift themselves out of the cycle of poverty, and the scenario is passed on to the next generation.

The Bethany Children's Trust works with partner projects who are committed to helping children, their families and communities, tackle vital needs such as education, nutrution, household income, good parenting and health care.
Children are helped with urgent needs, whilst families and communities are helped to develop longer term initiatives that will enable them to move out of poverty and develop stability for the future.

Disability

Around 150 million children throughout the world are living with disability.
80% of these live in developing countries where many disabilities are the result of preventable diseases, malnutrition, armed conflict or poor healthcare for pregnant women.
The majority of disabled children in these countries do not go to school and only 5% have access to support services.
Stigma and lack of resources mean that many disabled children lead unnecessarily isolated lives. But BCT’s partner Wukwashi Wa Nzambi in Zambia is bringing life and dignity back to these children and is proving such a success story that it is multiplying fast.
BCT is helping to restore fullness of life to disabled children.Read about the amazing work of Wukwashi 

HIV and AIDS

The lives of millions of adults and children have been changed since the late 1970s as they have become infected with HIV, died from AIDS related illnesses, or been left without parents – over 15 million children worldwide have been orphaned due to HIV and AIDS.
Around 14,000 people continue to be infected every day. For those families living in poverty an HIV positive diagnosis is even more devastating as they struggle to gain access to the healthcare, nutrition and other household support vital for surmounting the disease.
Read about BCT’s partner projects Aprecom in Rwanda and Vinodi in Togo, where support groups, children’s clubs and practical help from local churches are making a huge difference to families affected by HIV.

Street Children

At least 100 million children are living on the streets of our world, with little or no contact with family – they may have been orphaned, or abandoned by desperately poor parents.
Others spend much of their time on the streets trying to gain money to add to the family income. Although they sleep at home each night and may even attend school, these children are extremely vulnerable to eventually choosing to live permanently on the streets, as the family home barely meets their needs.
Some children are accused of practising 'witchcraft', and are thrown out of their home or flee to escape physical abuse.
The risks of abuse and exploitation that these children face on the streets are huge.
Help us bring a future to these children. Read how BCT is helping reconnect street children with their home and school through partner projects Vinodi  in Togo and EPED in Democratic Republic of Congo.