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When parents are sent to prison, the impact of crime goes far beyond the victim to hit at the children who are all the time left vulnerable. These children are affected and left vulnerable to the problems in society such as HIV/AIDS, prostitution, street children, rape, sexual abuse and manipulation. In most cases the wives of prisoners have remarried leaving children to relatives or to child headed homes, the family incomes have dwindled leading to child labour increased rates of school drop outs, malnourished children and worse still HIV/AIDS whose prevalence rates are alarming.
If the prisoner is the bread winner, families are often left with no source of income which usually leads to enlarging the cycle of poverty. If the prisoner is a single parent, the children will have no one left with. In African community, since it’s the women who care most, if the prisoner is the mother, the situation is almost the same, because the father of the children will go ahead to marry another woman and create a new family and the children will be left parentless.
There are situations when children are imprisoned along with their mothers, these children share in the punishment of their parents.

Every year Wells of Hope helps to lessen the pain of a parent in prison by caring for these children. We want to show these children who are always forgotten and hidden away in society around Christmas time that they are a treasure and there is someone who cares and loves them.
Please join and we work together to bring hope and love to these hidden treasures;

We need gifts and volunteers for this Christmas season. Currently we need Money to support the families during Christmas and gifts for the children.We have already began visting the families,and they are eager to attend the party which will bring together all the families of inmates we care for ,the volunteers,partners and well wishers.
Most importantly we need volunteers; we encourage groups to participate, especially since volunteers will visit in groups of two or threes. please contact us and we partner.

Donations, Volunteers ,are required urgently.

Last year's hidden treasure photographs