About Us
About Us
We are a Christian international development organization focused on children caught in the cycle of poverty and disability. We are doctors, teachers, pastors, health workers, community advocates, and funding partners like you.
We believe following Jesus means caring for vulnerable, forgotten kids.
We go to the world’s poorest places, to work with children living in poverty with disability. We are committed to bringing holistic care and support to kids who are too often left behind. With your help, we ensure children with disabilities are included in development programs and emergency relief efforts — all to give the miracle of hope and healing.
Jesus spent His life caring for children, women, men on the fringes of society – those who were blind, poor, forgotten. He is our inspiration.
Hope and Healing International has 21 community-based and hospital-based programs in 10 countries across Sub-Saharan Africa that deliver empowering, ability-restoring, life-changing services.
Here’s what we accomplished together in 2025
Take a closer look at all the ways friends like you showed Jesus’ tangible love to children across Africa in 2025.
We use resources for maximum world change.
5-year trending using audited annual financial statements at hopeandhealing.org/financials
That means making sure we work with effective local and international partners. We invest in new opportunities to reach more children in need of our services. We look for real solutions to real problems to break the cycle of poverty and disability – at the grassroots level and at the policy level.
5-year trending using audited annual financial statements at hopeandhealing.org/financials
We’ve put love in action for over 100 years.
Our History
When the German missionary pastor, Ernst Christoffel, arrived in Turkey, one particular group grabbed his heart: children who couldn’t see, who couldn’t walk, who couldn’t hear, begging in the streets… He called them “Nobody’s children” because no one was caring for these kids.
And so Pastor Christoffel opened a home and school for children with disabilities in Anatolia – Hope and Healing International’s first project – in 1908. Since then, Hope and Healing International has grown to care for millions of the world’s poorest children and families.
“The deed of love is the sermon everyone understands.”
– ERNST CHRISTOFFEL