ZOE Empowers is one of FUMC’s signature missions because of its amazing 95% success rate in lifting children from abject poverty. ZOE Empowers, an international mission organization, was formed in 2004 and three years later adopted a radically new way of empowering orphaned kids and youth-led families to become self-sufficient. It is not a “hand out” charity and is much more than a “hand up” program. The program operates in 12 countries where it organizes village-based empowerment groups of 25 or so households totaling 75-100 children. Most of the children have no adult involved in their lives. Some work for about 40 cents a day and others survive by begging. Over a three-year period, the group is guided through a structured empowerment program to lead the children to a new life. Since 2013, FUMC, church families, and other church partners in the area have sponsored nearly 30 groups and lifted over 2,000 children out of poverty!
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