Welcome
International Children's Aid Network
Quoting the landmark 2004 World Bank report, Reaching Out to Africa’s Orphans: “the number of orphans [in Sub-Saharan Africa] is growing at an alarming rate” . . . “resources are limited” . . . and “there is still no blueprint on the best way to scale up interventions.”
Today, ICAN is creating such a “blueprint” in and for Sub-Saharan Africa, where more than half of the world’s orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs) live – and where the scourge of AIDS has more than doubled the ratio OVCs to all children during the past decade.
Founded and managed by business professionals and former U.S. Marine Corps officers, ICAN is using the classic nine principles of warfare to establish a peaceful “beachhead” on the African Continent. These time-proven principles can be relied upon to assure victory in the key initial battles, create the critical path and build the momentum needed to ultimately win the war against child abuse, neglect and sacrifice unprecedented in the history of the world.
ICAN is a ‘501-C3’ not-for-profit organization. But our strategy is based firmly on a free-enterprise model to help Africans – and especially African children – survive and prosper in the years ahead. If you would like more facts on our mission and progress, please contact us by E-mail at: bpeters@ICANinfo.org
I am an orphan, a street child, a laborer, or a child soldier. There are millions like me in Africa today. Thousands more are orphaned, abandoned, exploited, or worse every day. Now we are simply children of the Earth. Many of us will survive somehow. Maybe we will meet you one day.
Dignitary at the Groundbreaking
Bongi Kunene (left), Chief of Staff to the Vice President of South Africa, seen here with ICAN's co-founders, Barbara and Dr. Bill Peters, attended the groundbreaking for Children's Village No. 1 in Soweto.
Leaders in Unity
Leaders of ICAN and WeCAN joined together before the ground- breaking. Left to right: John and Rose Mubunda, Barbara Peters, Thadie and John Mutula, Bill Peters and (kneeling) Israel Melele.
The First Building Block
Soweto community residents inspect the first building block produced by ICAN's first Hydraform brick-making machine -- the block that will be the cornerstone of ICAN's first Children's Village in South Africa
School is in Session
Classes are already underway at Heartwood Independent School, owned by ICAN's South African sister organization, WeCAN, which will serve the orphans and other vulnerable children of Children's Village No. 1 in Soweto.
Much Work
The first Hydraform brick-making machine went to work under the supervision of ICAN and WeCAN volunteers, with many curious children looking on.
Groundbreaking Ceremony
Groundbreaking for ICAN's Children's Village No.1 was attended by many South African government officials and hundreds of Soweto community members.
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