FOCUS
International is a world-based organization that broadly supports
the physical, social, and spiritual health and wellbeing of our world's
children.
FOCUS International's three areas of concern are:
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
We are currently soliciting financial support
or sponsorship for children's advancement based on:
Resources for these efforts are becoming increasingly critical to the
development of an integrated yet richly diverse world community.
CONSCIENCE AND EXPERIENCE
The role
children's welfare in economic action and long-term development of their
diverse communities is essential to the survival of society. Conscience also
requires that these efforts be increased to foster appreciation of the value
of children's experience. Though sometimes oppressed, children
demonstrate resilience which can lift them beyond circumstance.
The value of our contribution to children extends beyond protection,
nurturing, and education. In all societies it is the
children who are charged with the future of tradition or spiritual
beliefs; the development of society; the potential of family and the
community; and the maintenance of social relations. While rejecting the
use of custom to limit or define children's roles, we need to value and
use the wisdom, ethics, charity, and understanding that result from
children and their cultural experiences.
A sense of practical need is upon us.
Although our world faces grave
problems, there is still greater hope, for the gestalt of peace is never
beyond our communal reach. We must respond to a reality based on truth and
recognize that our environment, and therefore the future of our children, is
seriously threatened. Around the world, in technologically advanced as well as
developing countries, environmental debt has risen to levels that compromise the
ability of nations to meet basic health and nutritional needs. The whole
of this world's resources need to be utilized wisely and sustainably
in order that the world may once again thrive in the future millenium.
An equal partnership between adults and youth would bring balance to
the efforts to restore and foster truly healthy communities, in the broadest
sense of health and well being.
A growing interest for us is the education of donors and potential
donors about the importance of supporting children's needs and strengths
internationally and doing so in respectful, constructive ways. In order
to accomplish this goal, we participate at children's conferences, support
diverse grassroots self-help projects around the world, host beneficial
children's events, speak on complimentary health and nutrition issues,
write pertinent articles, produce newsletters, and respond to
inquiries regarding the holistic well being of the world's children.
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