The family is the essential cell of civilization. As families break, children pay the highest price, flooding into destructive downstream systems, like street life, prison, and human trafficking. When our ministry began, to address this crisis, we focused downstream on building physical orphanages worldwide to house displaced children.

However, we discovered that up to 90% of children in orphanages globally have at least one living parent who could care for them if they had the means. Many children in the orphanages that we supported were there because their parents (often single moms) felt unable to support their own children.

We discovered the same phenomenon in our own nation. In the richest country that the world has ever known, the number one reason why children enter into the foster system is not abuse; it's neglect, often poverty related neglect.

Over time, we recognized that we were addressing the downstream symptoms rather than the root cause of family instability—relational and economic insecurity that robs families of their inherent dignity. We decided to go "upstream" to identify the source of why families are breaking down and take an entrepreneurial approach to do something about it.

This realization led to a renewed mission: GO Project aims to break the orphan cycle through the power of community, commerce, and the love of Jesus. Our work focuses on uncovering the true barriers families face in their own contexts and partnering with and empowering the local church to help families stay together.  While our growing network of local church partners care for the most vulnerable children across the entire continuum of care, including local foster care and adoption, the thrust of our focus is upstream prevention.

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