In 2020 ORFL decided to support Homeboy Industries. Homeboy Industries is the largest and most successful program in the country helping formerly gang-involved and incarcerated youth and adults to rehabilitate and re-enter society as contributing citizens. Founded in the 1980s, by Father Greg Boyle, Homeboy has turned around the lives Read more…
In 2019 ORFL decided to support DiverseCity with a donation towards their Summer Programs. Who is DiverseCity? DiverseCity is a youth development organization that prepares tomorrow’s global citizens through health education and leadership training. The curriculum offers a fun and engaging outlet for physical activity and instruction in targeted Read more…
In 2019 ORFL supported IENH. IENH runs a program called Arte em Movimento. It provides music and dance classes to girls living in shelters who are victims of violence or abandonment. Currently they serve the shelters and centres, Casa Joao Bosco, Cecrife e Querubim, Escola Municipal Affonso Pena, Escola Municipal Read more…
This year so far our China team has done an excellent job and provided support to needy families. They contacted the civil affairs departments in the towns surrounding Jiangmen and worked with them to find the people in those areas most in need. Together they were able to identify 80 Read more…
Mercy Corps started a Social Venture Fund (SVF). It aims to accelerate the growth of innovative, financially sustainable companies that are socially responsible and positively impact people in developing countries. SVF hopes to de-risk the companies it takes on and make them more attractive to later-stage investors. Since we started Read more…
In 2016 our Managers and supervisors in Jiangmen (Jiangmen team) worked on making an impact on their local community in China. They identified who needed help and how they could help them. In the past our Jiangmen team has helped the local community by providing food and financial support to Read more…
In June 2016 ORFL help Christ Faith Home (CFHC) build a vocational training centre. This is to empower women who have been deserted or who have been living below the poverty line. CFHC vision is to help everyone ‘find permanent relief’. At the vocational training centre these women are Read more…
Evangel Children’s home help youth improve their employability The Evangel Children’s home aims to help disadvantaged children and young adults grow up and mature. It also aims to help them to build better family relationships which will in turn benefit the community. With support from the Hong Kong government and Read more…
Project Centro De Vivencia Redentora Last year ORFL supported Fundacao Semear in Brazil to enhance their current program the Centro de Vivencia Redentora (Centre of Experience Redentora). Fundacao Semear aim is to promote social inclusion, exercise of citizenship and respect for the rights and dignity of human beings. Read more…
Programa Cultural Arte em Movimento In 2014 the Overseas Resources Foundation Limited (ORFL) started to support the Cultural Program for Art in Movement organized by Instituicao Evangelica de Novo Hamburgo (IENH) in Brazil. IENH is a private educational institution that started Arte em Movimento which promotes social inclusion by offering Read more…