Real Life Stories

Human Interest Success Stories Focusing on Children

Success stories about children, orphans, and adults who have all been helped by the charity efforts of Family Care Foundation. Click links below to read real life, human interest stories about those who our FCF programs are designed to help, from AIDS orphans to North Korean refugees.

Stella's Six-Year Transformation While at our center, Stella was always quiet and withdrawn.	Himalayan Sherpa Benefits Thousands Mingmar has worked hard toward his dream to bring health facilities to his Himalayan village.
IT Skills Empowering Pakistani Women Emphasis on IT development and language skills make impact in the lives of hearing-impaired women.	My Dad is Watching Me Overcoming depression with a new skill set and lease on life.
A Trade Which Allows Time to Raise Children New skill and business provide supplementary income to raise a family.	Who Was Yoo Chul Min?--And Why Does it Matter? A 10-year-old N. Korean refugee made a sobering decision light years away from most 4th graders.
Walking to School on Her Own Unable to stand on her own, let alone walk, 7-yr-old Angura is walking for the first time in her life.	Entrepreneurial Mapuche Seamstress Providing business opportunity for a 33-year-old indigenous Mapuche single mom.
Scholarships bridge the gaps for Naloa Naola cared for her HIV+ mother, who died when she was 15, then she returned to school.	Silence No Longer a Barrier Through a hand up, determination and persistence, Ali is now one of the sole deaf computer teachers in Karachi.
The Best $100 I Ever Spent The four-year-old was discovered wandering around a hospital in northern Thailand, abandoned by her relatives.	Suffer the Little Children Mareli’s mother is a 19 year-old single parent with three small children, living in extreme poverty.
I Held on to the Dream of Receiving an Education The impact of an education and a certificate on a 45-year-old mother of three.	A Family for Gahtae Thai Gahtae had never even ridden on an escalator and yet she was soon scheduled to begin a new life in France.
The “Return” of Mr. Shibaki! After years of having a respectable profession in Japan, he was now just one of the Tokyo homeless.	A Second Life for Jerida The impact of a support group on a HIV positive mother of three, now living a normal life.