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.
Achievement
Love Without Boundaries, through their supporters, have achieved the following results:
- Over 10,000 pediatric medical cases and evaluations, with 4,300+ surgeries and hospitalizations
- 3,500 children placed into foster homes
- 3,700 children given access to education
- 6,400 children served through our nutrition program
- 780+ children given specialized care in healing homes
- 1,300 orphaned children enrolled in summer camps
- 25,000 cleft bottles distributed to orphanages and maternity hospitals
- 45,000 coats and blankets distributed to orphaned and rural children
- 700 special projects completed, including new cribs, playgrounds, wheelchair projects, and more
- 21 physical therapy trainings, including two at the national level
- 7 special education trainings
- 19 medical exchanges between US, Chinese, Cambodian, and Indian physicians
- 3,000 copies of their Manual of Special Needs distributed to orphanages