World Forgotten Children Foundation
Helping Underprivileged Communities and Less Fortunate Children of the World

Cause

According to a UN report, more than 700 million people, or 10% of the world population, are living in extreme poverty, surviving on less than $1.90 USD per day.

This means that millions of people cannot afford to provide basic needs such as nutrition, shelter, and care for their children. These needs become even more difficult to fulfill when a parent has a child with a physical and/or cognitive disability. Sadly, parents are having to place their children in orphanages or group homes due to a lack of resources to adequately care for their basic needs.

However, the reality remains that while the families do not have the resources needed to care for these children, the facilities they are placing them in, because they too are located in these impoverished countries, are also struggling due to little to no economic stability, education, and infrastructure.

Because of the direct link between poverty and orphaned children, equal attention must be paid to efforts that will guide these communities out of poverty and toward a more sustainable future.

For more than 15 years, the World Forgotten Children Foundation (WFCF) has been supporting the welfare of orphaned children in developing countries. Recently, WFCF expanded its mission as an effort to be able to not only support these children in need, but also the underprivileged communities that they are living in.

Mission Statement

The World Forgotten Children Foundation (WFCF) is a private non-profit effort, founded for the sole purpose of supporting projects that promote the health and welfare needs of underprivileged communities and orphaned children with disabilities in developing countries.

Projects We Fund:

Since its beginning, WFCF has supported projects that provide the necessary medical devices and care needed to improve the lives and conditions of orphaned children and young adults living with disabilities in developing countries. Just as important as it is to understand these medical needs, it is also imperative to understand the fundamental needs of the impoverished communities these children are living in. As such, supporting projects that can improve the environmental and local living conditions which will subsequently lead to overall better health and sustainability for these underprivileged communities is critical.

Projects that WFCF funds include:

  • Purchasing equipment and supplies such as shower chairs and other equipment that provides a level of independence for children and young adults at new and existing facilities.
  • Providing textbooks and supplies such as reading stands and braille tablets for educational support.
  • Providing hearing aids and eyeglasses that assist children with disabilities in their interaction with others.
  • Purchasing custom-fitted sleep aid systems to support proper growth.
  • Purchasing mobility equipment such as wheelchairs and walking frames.
  • Funding nutritional and medicinal products, as well as physical therapy and rehabilitation services.
  • Recruiting healthcare professionals to provide healthcare-related services and nutritional and medicinal products.
  • Providing logistics and transportation for special care
  • Providing supplies and funding for new and existing healthcare clinics.
  • Supporting with the construction, repairs, and remodeling of facilities that support children and communities within the mission of WFCF.
  • Funding water and other natural resource management projects for developing sustainable communities.

Organizations and Facilities We Support:

WFCF supports and collaborates with hundreds of deserving organizations worldwide, including:

We Thank Our Funding Sponsors:

Hyojin Kim Nirav Patel Foundation
San Francisco, California, USA
Has provided dedicated funding in support of the Jusarang Community Church (Baby Box Church).

IGI Global
Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA
Supports WFCF by donating 5% of its online bookstore purchases to WFCF causes.

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