The targets the orphan children as the primary beneficiaries. This has often put them in a state of total or partial deprivation and immense vulnerability and critical risk to abuse and rejection. In cases where the children have one resource poor parent, the secondary beneficiaries are those parents who get relieved of the huge burden of supporting the children because of their economic vulnerability and financial insufficiency in which they are. The society is another secondary beneficiary as the development of the children means assisting the society with the reduction of social problems that often emerge from abuse and lack of favourable upbringing. In cases where the children have one resource poor parent, the secondary beneficiaries are those parents who get relieved of the huge burden of supporting the children because of their economical vulnerability and financial insufficiency in which they are.
Basic requirement is the child's social vulnerability in addition to child being orphan.
Child vulnerability by lack of a sustainable financial and parental support. For instance, children belonging to resource poor households or looked after by ageing or old people who may also be in a state of requiring external welfare support. Children recommended to the Messiah Orphanage by other NGO's church groups or community provided they do not have access to other humanitarian or regular sustainable income or support. There is no bias based on religious background of parents or child's own religious or political affiliation. Emphasis is placed purely on need and child's vulnerability.