God's Children

Children are part of life at Starcross and have been from the beginning. Looking back over more than twenty years of parenting foster and adopted children we realize that although our projects have varied greatly, the basic philosophy has always been to assist children in danger of being forgotten. We have tried to provide a stable and nourishing environment for vulnerable children and to serve as a model that would influence others.

The STORY OF CHILDREN AT STARCROSS can be divided into three parts.

BEFORE 1986 which included our beginnings and our foster children.
AIDS Perhaps we are best known for our response to children with AIDS. We have adopted or taken legal guardianship of 6 HIV+ children at Starcross. Since the late 1980's we have also worked with officials to set up appropriate programs for HIV+ children; became a resource for foster and adoptive parents of HIV+ children; helped women living with AIDS plan for their children; tried to change attitudes in social services and in the general public about children with AIDS; established CASA SPERANTA in Romania to care for children with AIDS; and sponsored KIN INITIATIVE in Uganda to provide assistance, education and hope to children orphaned by AIDS.
THE PRESENT
There is also information on the individual children in our FAMILY at Starcross, our EXTENDED FAMILY, and our INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS.

Each child presents a unique challenge. We have never seen ourselves as a child care agency or a group ministering specifically to children. Yet, caring for God's children is a large part of what we do. We will always have them in our midst. And, we love them dearly.

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