| The children of Brazil have many needs. Roughly one-half the population are children under the age of 18 years. When we look at statistics, we see that half of these children are not having their basic needs met. A significant portion of Brazil goes to bed with an empty tummy, in inadequate environments, and without basic hygienic standards being met. To ease some of their burdens, LIMIAR advocates for their various needs .
To give you an idea of the diversification of children's needs, we present some of the projects LIMIAR has undertaken over the past nineteen years.
LIMIAR receives requests to undertake all projects directly from the Brazilian court or an institution.
Current Projects
- Monthly support to a 7-year-old girl with significant delays. This support allows her grandmother to take her from the orphanage, raise her at home, and secure therapy for her.
- Full support of three teens at a two-year technical college in Ohio . These children came through governmental orphanages with a strong desire to better themselves and not repeat the cycle of poverty. They are studying law and hotel management.
- Monthly support for a simple Brazilian family caring for their son, a bearer of severe cerebral palsy. Donation of a wheel chair.
- Monthly support for two single mothers whose sons have chronic poor health.
- Purchasing books for various orphanages to encourage reading interest in the children.
- Providing soccer equipment, jerseys and shoes for a small orphanage's boys soccer club.
- Helping a couple start a small business in order to earn funds to maintain three grandchrildren in their home.
- Enabling a single father to repair and enlarge his home so his 4 children can leave the orphanage and come home.
Special sponsorships of teens, without families, for professional training.
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