WHO WE ARE
His Children is a registered NGO (nonprofit / 501 C-3) created to help children and adolescents in the government and private orphanages in El Salvador. We implement projects to reunite families and show them the love and grace of God. We provide humanitarian aid to communities, families, and the Salvadoran people through projects and activities.
WHAT WE DO
We give hope and love to orphaned and abandoned children in El Salvador's orphanages; we teach them how to prepare for a job and how to build a relationship with God. We focus on helping the vulnerable ones, and we run transition houses for children aging out from orphanages. We feed communities and keep families together by building houses. We keep children off the streets and out of gangs. We teach others to be missionaries to the world.
WHAT WE BELIEVE
We believe that the Bible is the word of God. We believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died on the cross to forgive us of our sins. We believe in the Holy Spirit. We believe in the Trinity. We believe that God can do anything through prayer. We believe in Grace.
OUR HOPE
We believe that every child in the orphanages and youth incarceration centers will have the right to the education necessary to build a life and job skills that will support them and their families. We also hope that they will grow to have healthy families, both mentally and physically. Our goal is that they will have a loving relationship with God. We also pray that one day there will no longer be any orphanages or youth prisons, thus a healed generation.
OUR HISTORY
My name is Kurt Ackermann. I went on my first mission trip to El Salvador in 2000. My family and I started working in San Miguel. On my very first trip, my heart broke for the orphaned and abandoned children in this country. I kept coming back over the next three years and began working with government and private orphanages.
Unfortunately, our work did not have a long-term impact during those first three years because no one was here in El Salvador to oversee the projects.
My name is Kurt Ackermann. I went on my first mission trip to El Salvador in 2000. My family and I started working in San Miguel. On my very first trip, my heart broke for the orphaned and abandoned children in this country. I kept coming back over the next three years and began working with government and private orphanages.
Unfortunately, our work did not have a long-term impact during those first three years because no one was here in El Salvador to oversee the projects.
Our family moved to El Salvador to begin to make a permanent change in the programs here.
Since moving here as a family, we have consistently worked with the government to better the children’s lives by working with ISNA. We began by improving the physical and spiritual lives of the children who had no one to love them.
Our family moved to El Salvador to begin to make a permanent change in the programs here.
Since moving here as a family, we have consistently worked with the government to better the children’s lives by working with ISNA. We began by improving the physical and spiritual lives of the children who had no one to love them.
We started building homes in the rural communities of El Salvador. We wanted to make a difference in the lives of the children, restore families and keep them together. Most of their families had lost custody of their children because of poverty.
We started the States Diner to work with the youth from the transition homes and government centers because they could not find stable work due to little or no high school education. They now receive full salaries and benefits.
We Started States Bakes to expand the skill sets of the young adults who work here at the States Diner. We have a contract with a local restaurant, and we bake all of the bread for them.
We started the “You’re Someone Special Too” hair training facility, a fully functional hair salon/training facility with local people running it.
We started two States Café locations. With the President and the mayor’s help, we began to provide job training for twelve more young people aging out of government and private orphanages.
