Better Future International

Better Future International was created in response to the crisis facing orphans around the globe. We address the AIDS epidemic, natural disasters, low world health standards and immense poverty which impact these children's lives.

Our Family Care model seeks to keep orphans in the care of their extended family and seeks to avoid having these children abandoned to an orphanage. We do not arrange adoptions. We work to assure that children in our program receive food, a basic education, health care, and a peaceful and loving home. We have an orphans home in Cyvadier, Haiti.

In 2009 we began to care for Aids affected orphans and their foster siblings in Moshi, Tanzania. We provide access to school for the children and food support for the impoverished caregivers (most are the Grandmothers)

A new project in Azua, Dominican Republic began in late summer 2009 serving 24 impoverished orphans, many without birth certificates or access to food.

Our mission is to help orphaned or abandoned children grow into happy and productive citizens of the world. Our Family Care model seeks keep orphans in extended families and out of orphanages.

BFI provides emergency aid to the world's most disadvantaged children thru the donated services of over 50 volunteers and student interns, on an annual budget of less than $200,000. dollars. We pay expenses for staff members who accept foreign service placement contracts of 6 to 12 months.

Many individual donors have provided funding. Better Future is associated with the United Nations department of public information and is headquartered in New York City.

Casa Ana in the Dominican Republic provides education, health care, and an after school program.

Employing the family care model, orphans' extended families are assisted to care for the children. The Family Care Model builds communities, strengthens families and helps orphans become socialized in their own culture. Azua, Dominican Republic opened June 29, 2009.

In 2006 the UN proposed the elimination of group orphanages where ever possible. Management of this new “foster care” paradigm adds complexity and risk to orphans care programs around the world. Better Future International is one of only two orphans’ care NGOs that are associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information, and are uniquely situated to embrace this new standard. Our children have always been in small group homes, receiving social worker support in their local communities.

The goal is to provide the financial, health care, and educational support of the poorest families to provide aunts, uncles, and grandparents with the means to care for orphaned children after the crisis has passed.

To assist the Dominican orphans to get food, birth certificates, basic education and health care. As funding increases we wish to pay for their school fees and an after-school program for tutoring. You can help.

Starlene Johnson has led Orphans International America / Better Future International through the tragedy of the Earthquake in Haiti and has just returned from 3 weeks there.

Better Future International Board of Directors:

Kristie Dekoker
Kimberly Andino
Alastair Bushby
Nancy Zhang

Haiti, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, United Republic of, Dominican Republic

New York

1037 Bergen Street #D1

Brooklyn, NY 11216

Phone: 917-626-9695

www.betterfutureinternational.org

EIN: 43-1971411