Breaking the cycle of severe poverty begins with kids

If you have ever met a child that lives in severe poverty, yet longs to receive and education, you’d understand that you can no longer just stop and say, “Well, there are just too many to help.” When you start with one child — at one school — it will change an entire community.

Children are the most vulnerable part of a community. When parents make less than two dollars a day, and have multiple children, it becomes clear that poverty is a state that one is born into. If there is no foreseeable plan of escape, one remains poor, repeating the cycle generation upon generation.

When you invest in one child, and you see that child go through school, complete their education, start a job, and then start educating their other siblings, and raising them out as well. When you raise one child out of poverty, you raise an entire family.

The organization began when Carol Turner, founder of e3kids International, met sixteen kids in Kenya — eight girls and eight boys. They were some of the brightest and most amazing kids she had ever met. Full of resilience, vision, and hope for a brighter future, Carol sought to provide relief for fundamental problems, such as clean water. Then, moved to empower communities struggling with food insecurities. Finally, she found that the kids needed an education.

Ultimately, each of these processes, plans, and resources began to break the cycle of severe poverty.