Children with Disabilities Fund International

05/15/2026

CDFI May 2026 Newsletter -

making improvements to the physical plant where residents reside and gather. Last year at West Haven Children’s Home in Jamaica, Hurricane Melissa destroyed all the chain link fencing around the two-acre compound. We were able to inspect this ourselves and were amazed to see how the steel poles wh...

04/15/2026

CDFI April 2026 Newsletter -

This April, several CDFI board members, along with a group of high school students and a Disaster Relief Team from Park Valley Church, visited West Haven Children’s Home in Jamaica. It was our first visit since Hurricane Melissa devastated the area in October, except for a small group which visite...

03/15/2026

CDFI March 2026 Newsletter -

One of the most important parts of the CDFI ministry is the Child Sponsorship Program. Currently, there are 250 children already sponsored in the

02/16/2026

CDFI February 2026 Newsletter -

program. In November, the first Vocational Training Camp was conducted to enable the children in our program who were able to participate to prepare for adulthood.

01/15/2026

CDFI January 2026 Newsletter -

every disabled child in our Kenya program. But because so many of these children are medically fragile, from time to time one of them does die despite having access to health care. When this occurs, CDFI believes that each such child should be remembered and honored with an appropriate funeral. Beca...

12/15/2025

CDFI December 2025 Newsletter -

disabled children who have been abandoned, including a small child, weak but still living, left at the local morgue. CDFI also partnered with Hope

11/16/2025

CDFI November 2025 Newsletter -

The CDFI School lost its roof, and all the furniture and school supplies were destroyed. Storage cabinets, pictures and other items which had hung on the walls of the school blew off and were ruined. Only one item remained in place and was not damaged – the memorial plaque with a tribute to the co...

11/02/2025

Friends - We want to thank everyone for their support during this devastating time in Jamaica. We have now heard from 4 of our 5 staff members.

Two of them were able to make it up to West Haven yesterday to do more damage assessment. While all the residents are safe for now (Praise God), we have not yet been able to make the right connections to facilitate aid making its way up to the facility.

What can you do? Please consider a donation which will go directly towards hurricane relief at West Haven - https://purecharity.com/fundraisers/hurricane-melissa-relief

Do you get our e-mails? This is the best way to stay in touch with us and to get the most up to date information. You can sign up for our email list here - https://thecdfi.org/contact/

Jamaica was directly struck yesterday (October 28) by the incredibly powerful and destructive Hurricane Melissa. We desperately need your help to raise funds for disaster relief at West Haven Children’s Home and in the surrounding areas!Power and communications are currently down all over the isla...

10/30/2025

Urgent: Devastation at West Haven after Hurricane Melissa - We need your help! -

Dear Friend, I wrote to you yesterday regarding the devastation in Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa’s landfall on Tuesday. Today, we have received some additional news regarding West Haven Children’s Home and the wellbeing of the nearly 100 children and adults living there. West Haven has sus...

10/30/2025

Friends, we are receiving more detailed news of the devastation in Jamaica. We have heard from Fay, our Program Director there, praise God she is safe!

We still have no word on West Haven's status, stay tuned. In the meantime, all donations here will go to Hurricane relief at West Haven.

https://purecharity.com/fundraisers/hurricane-melissa-relief