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The Silver Coin Charity

Bring your bucket to any Westpac Bank in Australia and deposit your coins into the AKF account.
The BSB number for Westpac Bank is 033-086 and the AKF account number for your loose change is 309738.
To request a bucket simply call or email AKF today.
For all assistance on turning your loose change into an AKF tax receipt, please ring Matt Petruccelli on +61(0)3-9887 2777.
IN ORDER TO RECEIVE YOUR TAX RECEIPT YOU MUST FORWARD THE BANK RECEIPT FROM YOUR BUCKET DEPOSIT TO AKF.

Sonsoring The Children
Sponsoring a child is easy. Click here to download the pdf form you can save, complete and then email or mail to AKF.
AKF will send you a photo of your child, and his or her name and address so that you can write or visit and begin a lasting relationship.
Your monthly contribution of $40 can be made by a direct bank debit every month into the AKF account for Child Sponsorships.
That account is Westpac (BSB: 033-086) account 309746. The direct debit method is fast and effortless, and you'll have the joy of knowing that each month your child is growing into a life that were it not for you they simply might not have at all.

One little boy said to us, "Thank you very much. Your coins give me hope." As we thought about what he said, we recognized that it says it all. Our loose change gives him hope for a real future that he simply cannot pay for himself. But more than that. Hope also comes to him by simply knowing that there is someone out there who cares enough to use their coins for his sake. As insignificant as your loose change can seem to you, it can and will change lives for the better.

....AAKF MISSION

THE MISSION

The facts about Africa are, in many ways, dreadful and overwhelming. Any change in consciousness to Africans has a huge impact on Africa and the world.

Growing orphaned Africans into a consciousness of global leadership does change things for the better.

African Kids Foundation follows the famous Watoto style of community development and child care in Uganda, in which four boys and four girls are housed with one mama. A number of such houses form one village. A father figure, for life, stays each weekend. We have named our home Watoto Wamungu, which means Child of God.

The AKF Mission is to give kids Christian love and to help them to develop as leaders who will love the needy and bring healthy and creative solutions to Africa and the world.

Mindful that, "Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but Him who sent me," African Kids Foundation has the following mission:
.................................In the imitation of Christ, to care for disadvantaged children.

....ASUPPORTING WATOTO WAMUNGU
AKF has never wanted to develop unhealthy dependency by the Ugandan situation on Western aid. From the beginning AKF has had a policy to help in the development of business venture so that Watoto Wamungu can be self-sufficient. This policy supports our desire to teach the children how to stand and build on a good foundation. All western donations are considered to be a means to an end so that everyone in Watoto Wamungu is able to become free-standing, empowered and carrying vision for financial independence from foreign aid.
When you want to make a donation to the African Kids Foundation program, Watoto Wamungu, to help us to gain that independence and avoid unhealthy dependence, please consider thefollowing examples in Program Development:
	— $500 to purchase educational resources; — $1,000 to purchase medical supplies; — $1,000 to purchase livestock and their stalls; — $1500 to purchase one acre of land (we currently need 50 acres); — $5,000 for a fish farm and other income-generating material; — $50,000 to purchase a bus; — A one-time gift for any purpose.
Make a once-only payment of any amount to sponsor any orphan. If you need to add a message please email the message to liz@akf.org.au Australian Dollars: US Dollars: European Euros
Sponsors like you make a world of difference when contributing to the development of our *Watoto Wamungu Village — the village for God's children.* As one little boy said to me: "Thank you so much! Your coins give me hope."

....AABOUT AFRICAN KIDS FOUNDATION

African Kids Foundation has a Mission to give kids Christian love and to help them to develop as leaders who will love the needy and bring healthy and creative solutions to Africa and to the world.

African Kids Foundation follows the famous Watoto style of community development in Uganda, in which four boys and four girls are housed with one mama who is their mama for life. A number of such houses form one village. A father figure, for life, stays each weekend.

African Kids Foundation is incorporated in Melbourne, Australia, as a charitable, not-for-profit organisation for the purpose of providing Christian international relief and development with a special interest in AIDS-generated orphans.
Donations, including child sponsorships, over $2 are tax-deductible in Australia. If paid to RCIM in the USA, there is the possibility of 501(c)3 tax relief.

African Kids Foundation board consists of Christian professionals with experience in the Justice Department, risk management, quality assurance development in health care organisations, individual and corporate insurance nationwide and internationally, substance abuse and medical health care, social work, marketing and business development. In 2006, AKF was incorporated—with heartfelt thanks for the pro bono help given by one of Australia’s leading law firms, Blake Dawson.

....AAKF ORPHANAGE PROGRAM
Orphanage Program Since 2007, AKF has been in partnership with a group calling themselves Busega Miracle Centre Church, School and Orphanage (BMC). BMC is located in a dilapidated rented school on the outskirts of Kampala, the capital city of Uganda. Dr. Rob Crickett first met the widows and children of BMC in 2007 and considered it to be a divine appointment. He subsequently ministered to them for several days and purchased many items to immediately upgrade their standard of living. Most people had been sleeping on the concrete floor, troubled when snakes would come in and curl up beside them to escape the heavy rains. They were thrilled to receive real mattresses, bedding and steel bunks, improved cooking and laundry facilities, electrical fittings and health products. The world famous Christian child care group based in Kampala, Uganda, Watoto, was calling for Western pastors to partner with local pastors to form orphanages. The AKF Board identified BMC as being a suitable local group with whom to partner in the development of a Watoto style orphanage. Because it is a program in the raising of sons and daughter of God, children of God, AKF-BMC has named its child care program Watoto Wamungu . . . Child of God. Planned Phases of Development Since then Rob has brought in several people from America, Finland and Australia on short term missions to assist the community. Most visits were for one or two weeks only. These missions have resulted in Christian ministry, financial assistance and the provision of goods and services with a view to helping the small community to achieve the first of three phases of development: — phase one: improve the quality of living, increase the capability for BMC income generation, and acquaint BMC with the Watoto model, aims and philosophy; — phase two: acquire land, develop buildings in preparation for a Watoto model of child care in a village setting, develop the policies and procedures for Watoto style government-registered orphan care; *— phase three:* move BMC from suburban Busega to its prepared rural location and establish the Watoto Wamungu child care ministry. Busega Miracle Centre Church, School and Orphanage Busega is an outer western suburb of Kampala, Uganda on the road to Rwanda. BMC has been developed organically since 1997. Soon after its founder and senior pastor, Jesca Male, was widowed aged 35 years, a mother of 10 children, her own pastor — from Kampala's very large and famous Miracle Centre Church— recommended that she begin her own church. In dire poverty this godly woman began preaching under a mango tree. Despite BMC’s humble origins, Jesca found that people too sick from AIDS or for some other reason unable to care for their kids, began bringing their children to her for help. Gradually that help turned into a homespun, non-registered school, common in Africa, where the education is minimal but it’s better than no education at all. Over the following ten years the church grew from being under the mango tree, to three different low-cost dwellings—all in extremely poor condition. During this time Jesca fed everyone with whatever food was donated, cooking over a charcoal fire pot. it has been common for meals sometimes to be extremely scant and spread over one in three days. She, like several of the widows and children, slept on the concrete floor with no mattress or pillow, believing that if any bedding became available one of the children should have it before her. BMC's current resting place is located in a small run down six-room former primary school. The adjoining garage has been adapted as a laundry and another room is vacated each day to become a classroom for some of the 100 kids from the neighbourhood. Beside the former school is a spacious open air dirt-floor church—both titles owned by the same landowner. It could seat two hundred and pack six hundred. Its three walls are timber off cuts and it has a corrugated iron roof—a common look across Africa. In 2009, Busega Miracle Centre had not achieved registration as a church. Nor had it yet qualified to be either a registered school or orphanage. Poverty and the lack of a capable management and business partner has prohibited Jesca and the makeshift BMC Board from fulfilling their own long-held dream of becoming a Watoto style child care ministry.
Developments in 2009 Dr. Rob Crickett and Mission Team Leader, Pastor Lesley Van Zyl were accompanied by Kylie Kain on a mission in mid 2009 to begin the development of a suitable management structure that would work for BMC. This has now been achieved.

....AAKF PARTNERING WITH WATOTO
It could be said that there are three styles of orphan care in Africa:
	1. leave the children within supportive families; 2. bring the children into orphanages who cater for hundreds of children; and 3. build a village lifestyle on a plot of land and allocate one mama and papa to a ....handful ofchildren.
Kampala Pentecostal Church, under the pastoral management of Canadian pastors Gary and Marilyn Skinner, have developed the village model of child care and called it Watoto—the Kiswahili word for child. Clusters of eight houses, a school, church, administration and medical facilities form the village. Each house accommodates four boys and four girls of various ages, and one mama—herself a widow—a father figure comes in on weekends. In this way the children have their own mother and father for life. Each child is permitted to live on campus until the age of 21. The village model enables Watoto to build leaders for Africa’s future better than just the wholesale support of hundreds of orphans who can lack close parental care and attention to receiving a world class education and global consciousness. Although AKF is not church-based in Australia, four of the six AKF Board Members have extensive history with the Richmond Assembly Of God Church in Melbourne—one of the many Australian churches that are under the overall direction of Pastor Brian Houston of the famous Hillsong Church in Sydney. Hillsong is in partnership with Kampala Pentecostal Church who provide Watoto Child Care Ministries in Uganda. They have contributed significantly in the Watoto international conferences and to women’s programs in Uganda. In 2008, AKF partnered with Watoto Child Care Ministries in Kampala in the replication of the Watoto model of orphanage in the BMC partnership. After discussions in Kampala with Watoto’s CEO, Alan Penry, it was arranged for one of Watoto’s senior village mamas to visit for two weeks to impart to the BMC widows and children the Watoto vision. The daily visits completed just before Christmas 2008 were a significant contribution to the initial steps of transforming the existing BMC population into a professional, transparent and capable Christian child care ministry. AKF looks forward to further projects with Watoto. As a result of connections made with members of Watoto Australia, AKF has been consulting Watoto within Australia. Additional contact has been made with the Watoto Trauma Program online at www.familychallenge.com.au and member of the Watoto trauma team from Canada.

....AMISSIONARY TRAINING
AKF employs Pastor Kay Dohle as a consultant for its missionary training. Kay has an extensive in-field and collegiate history which includes the following:
	— five years experience as a missionary in the Philippines from 1990-95; — the Richmond Assembly of God Mission Coordinator for two years from 1997-99 during which she was also the trainer for short term overseas mission teams; — the Missionary Trainer for World Missions from 2003-6 during which time she developed theMission Training Manual whichis available online and for sale; — a senior lecturer at Harvest Bible College where she is now also Dean of Women and theCollege’s Quality Assurance Officer; and — at the time of this writing in 2009, Pastor of Elwood Imagine Church—a part of the Australian Christian Churches group.
Pastor Dohle has provided in-depth consultation with regard to the three key time frames of the missionary’s experience:
	— pre-field preparation including cross cultural issues, dress code, leadership roles, culture shockand slowing down to thelocal pace of life, — awareness of one’s own emotional state, health care in preparation for living in an infectiousarea, and familiarity with thepolitical culture of the na±tion and city, fund raising of at least 50% of personal travel and infield expenses,providing for the missionary’sown property and situation in the home country, liaison withWatoto Australia and Watoto Uganda, the production ofbusiness cards and a letter of introduction, watching the dvd Ready Set Go; collecting local African phone numbers, addresses, directions and street maps; communication protocol and channel as required with the missionary’s homechurch; — in-field requirements including mission goals, communication and reporting channels including when Dr. Crickett is himself on mission abroad elsewhere, contingency and emergency evacuation plans including possible relocation in Rwanda, Kenya or Tanzania, networking withother in-field mzungu missionaries and local Africans, routes for financial transactions, travel/health insurance—covered by AKF’s corporate insurance, personal equipment and possessions including camera and laptop, local visas and communication with the home nation’s consulate, strategies for the management of personal relationships arising in-field, effective budgeting and maintaining a biblical focus on the mission, networking with otherlocal missionaries, churches or NGOs, and precautions when dealing with situations involving suspected or discernible African witchcraft; and — post-field de-briefing and support which, in addition to personal debriefing and health check, will include a report to AKF and other supporters as required that will cover the mission itself, the mission goals, achievements in micro enterprises, the well being of the missionaries, any relevant features of partnering with Watoto Uganda, and networking with other missionaries, churches or NGOs.
In addition, missionary training and support will be provided as required by existing AKF network contacts in Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya who have considerable experience in Watoto, World Vision, other orphan care programs, and developers of micro enterprises in orphanage settings.

....ACONTACT US

African Kids Foundation Inc.
P.O. Box 529, Malvern, Victoria 3144, Australia.

Telephones and E-Mail Addresses in Australia:
AKF President: Rev. Rob Crickett, PhD. +61(0)400 991 199 rob@akf.org.au

AKF Treasurer: Matthew Petruccelli +61(0)425 734 411 matt@akf.org.au

AKF Secretary: Elizabeth Cruickshank +61(0)425 733 033 liz@akf.org.au

AKF Fund Raising: Mary Crickett, . Mobile: +61.418 306 860. E-mail: mary@akf.org.au

AKF Medical Director: Rev. Vince Smith (RN), Mobile: +1 (USA)-707-643 0286. E-mail: Vince@akf.org.au

AKF Mission Team Leader: Ps. Lesley Van Zyl, Uganda Mobile: +972-(0)779100973. lesley@akf.org.au

AKF Fax: +61.(0)3.9824 1830

Website: www.akf.org.au

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Rob Crickett International Ministries Inc.
RCIM, P.O.Box 631 Byfield, Massachusetts 01922, USA.

RCIM President: Rev. Rob Crickett, PhD. +61(0)400 991 199 rob@rcim.org

Website: www.rcim.org

....ADONATIONS TO AKF

Ways to Make a Donation in Australia:
(1) Mail your cheque to AKF at P.O. Box 529, Malvern, Victoria 3144, Australia.

(2) Make a direct Bank Deposit to AKF at Westpac Bank: BSB 033 086, Account 309738.

(3) Ask us for an AKF bucket to keep in your home or an AKF locked moneybox for your office. This is our Silver Coin Charity program. Once you have filled the bucket or moneybox with your loose change, simply take the coins to any Westpac Bank and send AKF a copy of the deposit slip with your name and address on it..

Ways to Make a Donation Online:

(1) Clicking the Donate Button below and pay by credit card or your PayPal account to make a donation to AKF generally.

(2) Go to Rob Crickett International Ministries at www.rcim.org and make a donation to AKF paying by credit card or your PayPal account. Please add a comment in the description box as follows: “AKF”.

(3) Click the button "Our Orphans" to open the page on which you can click to support an orphan by a once-off donation or by establishing a monthly deduction from your credit card.

(4) Click the button "Missionary Support Appeal " to open the page on which you can click to support an orphan by a once-off donation or by establishing a monthly deduction from your credit card.

(5) Click the button "Supporting Watoto Wamungu" to open the page on which you can click to support an orphan by a once-off donation or by establishing a monthly deduction from your credit card.

Ways to Make a Donation in America:

Mail your check to RCIM, TD Banknorth, Rowley MA 01969 USA.Routing 211370545 Account 8244939803. Please make a note indicating that the finds are for RCIM's support of AKF.

Ways to Make a Donation in Finland and Europe:

Make a direct deposit to RCIM, Nordea Bank. Account 182030-17103, Code 1041.

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African Kids Foundation is incorporated in Melbourne, Australia, as a charitable, not-for-profit organisation for the purpose of providing Christian international relief and development with a special interest in AIDS-generated orphans.

AKF is a not-for-profit charitable organisation in Australia and all donations over $2 are tax-deductible in Australia; tax receipts will be issued by AKF for those donations originating in Australia.

RCIM is a 501(c)3 Church in America; tax receipts will be issued by RCIM for those donations originating in the USA.

....ACHILD SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM
Sponsor contributions customarily are AUD40 or US$30 or 25€ per month. All of AKF management costs are obtained by other fundraising efforts. Excluding the bank charges on credit card payments, foreign exchange and transfee fees etc., all of your sponsorship money goes to your child as follows:
	In The Home
30% 12.5% 15% 2.5%	Food; Housing, Bedding, Clothing and Laundry; To the Child's Mama and Papa; Entertainment, Toys and Play.
	Education
12.5% 17.5%	Primary School Fees and Stationary; Higher Education Savings Plan;
	Health
2.5%	Health Care;
	Banking
2.5% 5%	Pocket Money; Personal Savings Plan;
To select the orphan you are choosing to sponsor click here.

CORPORATE ..ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

		With immense gratitude Rob Crickett International Ministries of USA, Finland and Australia, and African Kids Foundation of Melbourne, Australia, would like to acknowledge the invaluable pro bono help received in creating African Kids Foundation from the award-winning Melbourne-based law firm Blake Dawson. Over a one year period, Blake Dawson graciously held our hands and walked us through the minefield of concepts and paperwork with elegance, dexterity and a winning warmth. The lives of AIDS-generated orphans in Africa have been turned around because of Blake Dawson's best of the best standards, vision and capability. From us all, thank you.

		With pleasure and gratitude Rob Crickett International Ministries of USA, Finland and Australia, and African Kids Foundation of Melbourne, Australia, would like to acknowledge the invaluable banking help received from Westpac —Australia's first bank— through their Community Banking Solutions package. Community Solutions is a first for community groups and banking — it is a comprehensive banking solution, designed specifically for community groups. Waived fees, discounts and access to special services and benefits are some of the ways that the Community Solutions package helps African Kids Foundation to bring the money of orphan sponsors and project donors right to where it's needed most, in ways that save everyone time and money. From us all, at home and in Africa, many thanks —you make the difference!


	Click on this title to see the short DVD on African Kids Foundation and the Busega orphanage.
Click on each of the titles below to see William MacLean interviewing Dr. Rob Crickett on YouTube about Rob's book, SURVIVING THE WORST STORMS. See for yourself why this author and this book are so awesome.
	In the series of short videos, view them in the following order: (1) 2009 Dr Rob Crickett 0 Introduction by William MacLean ... (2) The first of five interviews of Dr. Rob Crickett ... (3) The second of five interviews of Dr. Rob Crickett ... (4) The third of five interviews of Dr. Rob Crickett ... (5) The fourth of five interviews of Dr. Rob Crickett... (6) The final of five interviews of Dr. Rob Crickett ...

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