Love Without Boundaries

Love Without Boundaries Foundation is a non-profit charitable organization centered on providing humanitarian aid to orphaned and impoverished children in China, Cambodia, and Uganda, specifically in the areas of nutrition, medical care, education, and connecting orphans with foster care families. It was founded in 2003 by Amy Eldridge after she visited a Chinese orphanage and helped raise money for their medical programs, and has since grown into a multimillion-dollar charitable foundation[1] impacting the lives of over 50,000 children.

Mission Statement

Providing healing, education, and refuge to vulnerable children worldwide

Description:

Love Without Boundaries is an authentic international charity that provides hope and healing to orphaned and vulnerable children, and their underserved communities, through its education, nutrition, medical, and foster care programs.

Programs

Love Without Boundaries provides humanitarian aid to orphaned and vulnerable children through four key areas: medical, education, nutrition and foster care.

Medical
Love Without Boundaries provides medical services to children in by arranging lifesaving heart surgeries and other operations at pediatric hospitals in China, Cambodia, India, and Uganda, and by sending surgery teams to host countries in order to operate on children in need. They have a waiting list of children requiring immediate surgery. They also operate specialized healing homes which provide care to orphaned and abandoned children born with medical needs.

Education
Love Without Boundaries currently sponsors the education orphaned and rural children and teens from preschool through college. Their Believe in Me schools are built both in orphanages and in rural villages to provide learning opportunities to children who otherwise would not receive an education. Their general education fund is used to expand their programs as well as to build new schools, renovate existing schools, purchase supplies, provide teacher training and other education-related needs.

Nutrition
LWB provides quality nutrition to both orphaned and rural children through their school programs and through their specialty formula fund. They also have a sustainable nutrition program in Cambodia with school gardens. They accept monthly sponsorships and also one-time donations to their nutrition programs.

Foster Care
LWB currently has successful foster care programs in China, Uganda, India, and Cambodia. In Cambodia, they provide foster care for both orphaned children as well as children who have suffered the trauma of human trafficking and abuse. LWB monitors their programs very carefully with local managers who visit the children and can quickly provide extra nutrition, medical care or other supplies as needed.

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