Mission Timoteo is a home for children of prisoners in Santa Cruz. It currently cares for children taken from Bolivian jails. HCI began a partnership with this ministry in 1996. In Bolivia, about 200 children are cared for at the Wayne Walker Home outside of Santa Cruz. Numbers were unavailable for the Mission Timoteo program.
Different programs focus on specific groups of homeless children.
Under the belief that only the healthiest, better-looking kids are accepted into normal orphanages, the Wayne Walker Hogar de Ninos aims to house children who don t have much of a chance of getting into other homes. The Mission Timoteo program serves children taken from Bolivian jails. This is an impressive statistic given the fact that one of the guiding principals of the organization is not to solicit funds. During the construction of the Walker Home the founder of HCI sold his house in Knoxville in order to make sure that the organization did not go into debt. Based on Christian values, Homeless Children International places a tremendous emphasis on the power of religion.