Dream Farm - The Dream Farm Mission

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Our mission: To empower people to adopt and raise to their fullest potential, orphaned children.

Our vision: That our effort makes possible a concert of compassion to address the crisis faced by MILLIONS of children.

To accomplish this we will:

Raise awareness of the ongoing crisis faced by orphaned children.

Campaign to find people who are inspired to adopt these children and empower them to use their skills and talents to attain wellness and prosperity for themselves and their adopted children.

Raise funds to research, develop and build a property to include 18 homes, a charter school, arts center, athletics center, gardens, and orchards on an approximately 1,000 acre farm in Oregon.

Raise funds for adoption legal expenses.

This prototype, low-emission, sustainable, self sufficient, and self propagating community will seek to interact with and be a benefit to its surrounding community.

This site will house and serve approximately 216 children, 72 adults and graduate a class of 12 - 24 every year.

Beginning with the end in mind...

Just to be clear this is "what's going on here". I've stated the mission and vision of this project as simply as possible, yet give the project enough room to grow but at it's core the objective of The Dream Farm is two parts. The first part, and it's the first part because it needs to be the first part, is to create a community that is highly self sufficient, to be a model for it's own replication. The second part is to give the community purpose. The Dream Farm plan is to make the beneficiary of the first communities children orphaned by AIDS. If we keep our first and primary purpose at the forefront of our minds, it will guide the development of the project.

The most essential component to the success of this project...

I have read that many well-intentioned programs have built many schools and orphanages for a large number of children. However, the harsh reality is the ratio of adult care takers to children often spreads adults too thin. While these programs are helpful in providing an option for these children, there is still a gap to be filled. The Dream Farm can fill this gap. The Dream Farm will have appropriate doctors and therapists on staff; all that these orphans need are adults who will make a full-time commitment to them.

What you are seeing here, is a work in progress...

To my knowledge, a community of this type does not exist. Knowing that children are best served through loving caring parents, The Dream Farm is my effort to make adopting orphaned children, a more viable option. Just like a bucket is filled with water, one drop at a time, a project of this nature must start with one person and a vision. There is a great need but to this point, good intentions have created understaffed orphanages, leaving children to wander the streets. It is my hope that while other organizations focus their efforts on feeding children, The Dream Farm will become the prototype for communities where adults will be empowered in their decision to adopt children. Instead of an endless dependence on others for food, we will raise children to be self sufficient and independent.