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Name:	Every Child Ministries
Address:	875 South State Road 2
	Hebron, IN 46341
Phone:	219-996-4201 800-543-7937
Web Address:	www.ecmafrica.org

Every Child Ministries (ECM) meets the 20 Standards for Charity Accountability.

ECM operates programs in Africa geared toward helping needy children. The Street Children Ministries program caters to homeless street children in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana, with contact 3 - 5 times a week. Through this program, street children are counseled, given food, clothing, medical assistance, and literacy opportunities. The Leadership program sponsors two nine-month training programs to develop teacher trainers in Democratic Republic of the Congo. ECM also reports training teachers directly through periodic seminars in Congo and Ghana, with about 30 - 100 children's teachers trained in each seminar for ministry in local churches. The organization also operates a Teaching Ministry program that teaches a Character Building course in Ghana public schools at the invitation of the government. In addition, ECM also operates a Liberation/Rehabilitation of Slave Children and Women program that provides continuing counseling, vocational and educational assistance for about 489 women that have been liberated since 2003 as well as the Haven of Hope Home and Academy that sponsors a residential total care home and school for children rescued from the streets and from ritual slavery. The organization operates orphan/vulnerable child assistance programs through sponsorship in Congo and Uganda, also provides aid to displaced children in Uganda, and provides aid and public awareness/education programs to help children with albinism in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, and Uganda.

For the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010, ECM's program expenses were:

Education, training, relief and development	700,129
Ministry to constituency	76,860
Total Program Expenses:	$776,989

Chief Executive : John E. Rouster, International Co-Director

Compensation*:

$37,960

Chair of the Board: Desmond C. Daily
Chair's Profession / Business Affiliation: Retired, U.S. Postal Service

Board Size: 11

Paid Staff Size: 82

*October 1, 2009 - September 30, 2010 compensation includes annual salary and, if applicable, benefit plans, expense accounts, and other allowances.

Method(s) Used:

Direct mail, special events, print advertisements, planned giving, grant proposals, and Internet appeals.

Fund raising costs were 1% of related contributions. (Related contributions, which totaled $851,684, are donations received as a result of fund raising activities.)

This organization is tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. It is eligible to receive contributions deductible as charitable donations for federal income tax purposes.

The following information is based on ECM's audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2010.

Source of Funds
Contributions	851,684
Interest and investment income	117
Total Income	$851,801

Uses of Funds as a % of Total Expenses

Programs: 97%  Fund Raising: 1%  Administrative: 2%

Total income				$851,801
	Program expenses			$776,989
	Fund raising expenses			10,945
	Administrative expenses			17,475
Total expenses				$805,409
Income in Excess of Expenses				46,392
Beginning net assets				413,000
Ending net assets				459,392
Total liabilities				3,711
Total assets				$463,103