ALIVE! Newsletter: Spring 2022

Finding Out What Works... and Doing More of It

Announcing: Safe Haven!

Global Update

Welcoming Patrick Lutta

Kids Alive is happy to welcome Patrick Lutta, principal of Lutta & Company Associates, to the Kids Alive International Board of Directors. Patrick has assisted our team in Kenya with legal issues over many years, helping bring justice and holistic care for children and families there. We look forward to his contributions in an international governance and advisory role.

"There are a lot of groups around to help children - and many of them do great work. But Kids Alive takes a different approach. Our strategy is designed to help children and families break the bonds that would hold them down while disrupting the systems that would keep them in poverty and abuse. When you look at the problems as systems where the structures re-enforce each other, you can begin to address the issues at their root. That's the best hope for people trying to get out of a bad situation and on to a better road for life."

ALIVE! Newsletter
Spring 2022

Finding Out What Works... and Doing More of It

Announcing: Safe Haven!

Global Update

Welcoming Patrick Lutta

Twelve years ago I interviewed Rosalva Alvarado to be our new social worker at Kids Alive Guatemala's Oasis ministry. She was so unassuming I almost did not hire her. When I asked a question about how she felt children were treated in the court system, I immediately saw the fire she had for justice. I hired her on the spot.

Neither of us had any idea the impact she would make in Oasis, Guatemala, and all of Kids Alive International. You can read more in this newsletter how she pioneered a new model of care, which we call Safe Haven.

Our incredible teams of social workers, psychologists, lawyers, teachers, nurses, and house parents are focused on creating safe havens for children focused on two outcomes.

Justice for a child is more than a court outcome. I have learned that no matter the circumstances, what a child wants most is a family. A forever family.

No matter how difficult, our Safe Haven Champions work to strengthen homes, heal broken families, or find alternative families to ensure that each child has a healthy home. And we know that God is in it as we see His fruit.

What Rosalva started is not only impacting Guatemala, but also Peru as we have built out the Safe Haven model there, and it is spreading to our entire ministry. All from the vision God gave Rosalva.

I am honored to support incredible people like Rosalva, whose innovations are changing Guatemala, Peru, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Kenya, Zambia, and Lebanon.

Corbey Dukes
President

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Haiti

An uneasy calm has settled in Haiti since the kidnapping of the 17 foreign missionaries for ransom in October. Even though armed gangs patrol highways and extort money for protection, our dedicated staff continue to minister to the children in our school and residential program. God has called us to the hard places to serve in His name, and so our work continues. Out of caution to protect our children and staff, we have removed most Haiti updates and information from the website. Please continue to pray for God's protection of our children and staff and their families and communities.

Lebanon

Even as Lebanon goes through a long-term crisis, the Kids Alive team is working to full capacity ministering to our children and their communities through these challenging times. While people struggle to re-prioritize scarce resources such as money for food over rent and gas due to the high costs of essentials, our campus is a haven for the children in our care. Kids Alive continues to provide education, counseling, and spiritual truth while meeting the physical needs of the children, some of whom are refugees from Syria. Please continue to pray for all the children and the refugee communities who long for home and our staff who serve these forgotten families in the name of Jesus.