WELCOME to the CRIBS Foundation Website!

Do you have the HEART to HELP ABANDONED, NEGLECTED and SURRENDERED CHILDREN and SEXUALLY ABUSED YOUNG GIRLS?

If you do, then YOU can HELP us fulfill our MISSION to PROVIDE a LOVING HOME ENVIRONMENT for EVERY CHILD by getting INVOLVED in our FOSTER CARE PROGRAM.

ACT NOW... MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE... IN THE LIFE OF A CHILD!

Read our Executive Directors' Message. Click here.

History
CRIBS (Create Responsive Infants By Sharing) began in 1974 when two (2) Lutheran missionary ministers? wives saw the need to nurture and care for abandoned babies and took them in their own homes. Soon, more babies were added to the number and the country?s first volunteer foster homes were opened to accommodate them. A residential home, which is now the Receiving Home, serving as a temporary shelter, was established in response to the need to nurse and look after a growing number of sick infants. Twelve years later, another home, which is intended for the victims of sexual abuse, was created.

CRIBS became a licensed and accredited child-caring agency in 1981 by the Department of Social Welfare and Development. It is a non-stock, non-profit, non-government organization whose funding comes mostly from private sources. An all-volunteer Board of Directors and Board of Advisers helped raise an endowment fund for the agency. An Executive Director oversees the work of the regularly paid staff that includes social workers, nurses, midwives, other employed professional and childcare, home and office personnel.

CRIBS grew out of a response to the hundreds of infants rejected and given up every year and to the increasing number of abused, traumatized children.

Vision
A loving home and environment for each child.

Mission
Compassionate, professional and responsive staff and volunteers who are committed to the caring, healing, recovery and development of abandoned, surrendered, neglected and sexually abused children and their families. Together, creating opportunities for each other to become whole and empowered instruments for changing their social reality.