Therapy Services for 80 Cambodian Families

When you give to CIF, your money goes a long way toward supporting children in healthy and loving families. For the sake of transparency, we wanted to give you a picture of how our budget breaks down. 

We'll include details about what each category means, below. 

Did you know that it costs 85% less to support a child in a kinship or foster family than in a children's home?  

MONTHLY
Program Costs: $10,844
Staff Salaries & Benefits: $20,964
Organization Development: $3,277
Administration: $2,159
Maintenance (Vehicle/Property): $140
Promotion: $132
Purchase Assets: $119
TOTAL: $37,635

Program Costs: family recruitment/assessment, placement, allowance for care, medical and therapy, family development, adoption support, respite care, etc.

Staff Salaries & Benefits: everyone on staff from Managing Director to Program Managers, Social Workers, ABLE staff, Admin, & housekeepers

Administration: office rental, utilities, supplies, government fees, etc.

Maintenance: vehicle and property

Promotion: marketing, video production, website development

Purchase Assets: computers, printers, equipment  


ABLE Breakdown 

Sixty of the 123 children served in our programs this year have disabilities. We understand that disabilities and chronic illnesses make children more at risk of separation from their families, and we believe they are just as deserving of the stability and love of a family as any other child. 

I recently wrote about this topic in Christianity Today, where the work of CIF was featured. 

On September 17th, our work in Svey Rieng, one of the provinces we serve, was featured in Christianity Today. From the very beginning, CIF focused on inclusivity and worked to ensure children with disabilities did not miss out on family. Some of our first children placed are now young adults, thriving because they had incredible parents. 

"In 2008, Keo Ravy and Amy Sullivan of Children in Families (CIF) drove to an orphanage outside of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to pick up two toddlers with severe developmental delays. They then brought the children to a rural village where they would meet their new foster families.

In the car, four-year-old Sam Ang, who was blind and could not yet eat solids, suddenly started violently banging his head against the car floor. Startled, Sullivan tried to stop him, unaware that due to neglect, this was his way of communicating hunger. As Sullivan pulled him into her lap, he began to calm down as he felt her face with his hands.

Sullivan, a CIF volunteer, recalled feeling worried about whether his foster mother would be able to care for him... (Read more at the attached link)"

Sincerely, 

Erin & the CIF Team

Links:

• Christianity Today feature