What is the BKK
We are a non-profit association that was born out of a cry in the heart of God. A foreign couple was faced with the harsh and heartbreaking reality to which many families are exposed in the Brazilian Northeast, in complete social vulnerability, without access to education, culture, ethical and moral values and, above all, without access to the knowledge of God.
What we believe
God does not place limitations on his children! Based on this assumption, we believe that everything is possible for those who believe, and we believe that it is possible to save hundreds of thousands of children who are at risk in Brazil. We will open at least 100 institutions equipped to support these children and transform the reality of each one of them with resources that we believe God has already made available to us.
Our purpose
Today, Brazilian Kids Kare operates in the implementation, structuring and maintenance of shelters and social projects in Brazil with the purpose of welcoming and supporting children, adolescents and adults in social vulnerability, developing activities to support basic education schools, promoting awareness and broad mobilization of ethical, moral, social, cultural and spiritual values.
Development
The Brazilian Kids Kare Association understands that the role of an organization that operates in communities of socioeconomic vulnerability is to offer possibilities and opportunities to children, young people and adults through institutional shelter, day care centers and republics, providing access to education, knowledge, practices, experiences and dialogues, enabling the reintegration of each one into society, undoing the underprivileged situation in which they lived.
Board of Directors
Incredible results happen when determined people come together. Here at the Brazilian Kids Kare Association, we keep working for more incredible results. The team has competent professionals, passionate about the cause and who spare no efforts to impact the lives of children and young people throughout Brazil.
Fiscal Council
Our organization’s Audit Committee members value legality and honesty, checking our accounts and advising on the best paths to choose. People with extensive experience in the area of Finance and Auditing apply their knowledge to the suitability of the Third Sector. Together, we make the difference!
How it all began
In 2014, Reinhard and Debi Hirtler took a trip to São Luís do Maranhão, where they were faced with a very different situation from what they already knew in Brazil. There, they heard about a 7-year-old girl who offered to become a prostitute in exchange for a piece of fruit, to satisfy her hunger.
They were so shocked that they asked the people who were with them to take them to the poorest places in that region. So they went to places where people live in mud houses and live in extreme poverty. They also went to a large garbage dump and saw that there were children living there, always looking for some food, right there, among the garbage.
Talking to local residents, they realized that the common reality was sexual abuse, even at home. Mothers and fathers, often drug users, sold their daughters into prostitution. Even so, the place seemed to have a considerable presence of religious institutions, which clearly made no real difference in the lives of those people.
This whole scene of destruction and neglect made Reinhard and Debi Hirtler very sad. They returned home and were in crisis for four months, crying, not knowing what to do to somehow reverse that situation.
That’s when, together, they decided to do what had to be done, especially for street, orphaned, abandoned and at-risk children. That’s when the dream of opening 100 shelters spread across the poorest regions of Brazil was born.
Thus, Brazilian Kids Kare developed and, by the end of 2020, shelters, social projects and Casa República were implemented. All of this was built through faith and people who decided to be a channel of God for these children.
The Association fully supports all these local headquarters, from the implementation process, land purchase, construction and maintenance of houses, employee payroll, groceries, hygiene supplies and everything necessary for the perfect functioning of the institutions
Children and adolescents eat heartily and healthily, with nutritional monitoring, are enrolled in schools, have private teachers, receive pedagogical, medical and psychological care, practice sports and have fun like any normal, healthy person at their age.
