Be A HERO’s Field Partners are those we have had close, long-term, personal relationships with; those who have proven to be experienced, efficient and financially responsible. In most cases, our Field Partners have been working for many years in their location, caring for orphans, refugees, the poor, and other marginalized people. They are the experts on the ground, providing the daily care and love to those around them. Be A HERO assists our Field Partners by raising funds for their project; providing administrative support; and liaison with donors and sponsors.
A “project” is what we call a specific planned undertaking, usually a capital-cost building or venture, such as construction of a children’s home, school, medical clinic, or water system.
Our projects are run by our Field Partners - proven, seasoned leaders, getting the job done in their community for their children.
How do you ensure that the money sent for a project gets spent on that project?
We have signed legal agreements and stringent reporting and accounting procedures in place to ensure compliance and satisfactory completion. The funds are not sent all at once, but in instalments. Once we have received the required receipts, accounting, and photos of one stage, we then advance the funds for the next stage. We also send North American Be A HERO staff or Be A HERO representatives to visit each project site.
Being a Hero Army Financial Member is a way for ordinary people to Be A HERO everyday - to work together to help children who can’t help themselves.
Hero Army membership raises money for infrastructure and income generation projects.
It enables communities to address their long-term needs by building houses, class rooms, wells and medical centres and create sustainability through training and business start up.
Everyday HERO $15/month Family HERO $40/month Super HERO $100/month
HERO Army membership enables communities to:
send children to school (pre-school, primary, secondary)
have vocational training facilities
have technology available for learning and business
care for their orphaned and homeless children and widows
run successful businesses
run adult education classes (hygiene, literacy, human trafficking issues)
Average Gross National Income for every man, women, and child in America is $35,060. World Development Bank, 2003.
Of the 24 mostly Western Developed Nations (including NA, Western Europe, Australia & New Zealand etc.) Population of 900 million, the GNI is $27,000 USD
Compare this to the fact that 1.2 billion people live on under $1.00 a day and 2.7 billion people live on under $2.00 USD a day.
500 million people are hungry and another 500 million are so poor that they don’t consume enough food to render them productive.
Because of poverty 33,000 children (mostly under-five-year-olds) die every day due to preventable diseases – diarrhea, measles, malaria, and malnutrition – that is more than one child dying every 3 seconds.
55% of all child deaths (17 million deaths a year) are just because the children are hungry.
Poverty is at the root of most of that which contributes to 'children becoming at risk'.
Heroes of the Nation, through its “Village Concept” is developing its orphanages with “home-based” care programs that help to prevent the disruption of the family unit that is essential to Kenyan life. The “Village Concept”, as part of the health-care program, includes the development of resource centers in rural areas that contain videos and information about the AIDS virus and its prevention. HOTN believes that education leads to hope, and hope leads to action.
The Heroes of the Nation School, has been operational since 2002 and currently has 534 students in primary and high school. This element of the project is very important to the development of the community for the following reasons:
The children of the community attend HOTN for schooling for the following reasons: i) the standard of education is very high; ii) there is a boarding school available because it is too far to travel daily; iii) it is the only boarding school in a 10 km radius; iv) the children are fed a nutritious diet enabling them to concentrate; v) the location of the school is a long way from bad influences eg. drugs/alcohol, etcetera; vi) the school is needed because nearest town is 7 km away.
Be A HERO’s Field Partners are those we have had close, long-term, personal relationships with; those who have proven to be experienced, efficient and financially responsible. In most cases, our Field Partners have been working for many years in their location, caring for orphans, refugees, the poor, and other marginalized people. They are the experts on the ground, providing the daily care and love to those around them. Be A HERO assists our Field Partners by raising funds for their project; providing administrative support; and liaison with donors and sponsors.
Average Gross National Income for every man, women, and child in America is $35,060. World Development Bank, 2003.
