Agape Villages

Author: Janet Kleyn

  • In The Volunteer Spotlight: Doug Mead

    In The Volunteer Spotlight: Doug Mead

    I met Doug Mead in 2008 at the Christian Child and Family Services Associationā€™s annual conference in Chicago. He was the Executive Director of Georgia Agape back then, a foster care and adoption agency in Atlanta. After seeing a copy of the newsletter we were doing (black & white on legal sized paper printed off our copier), he offered to do our newsletter for us assuming he would be doing it for a year or two. Well, 10 years later, Doug is still doing our newsletter! Not only that, he is now helping us navigate through the process of achieving national certification through CARF, donating his time in this time-consuming process. Doug and his wife recently retired to Southern California and he is now also consulting pro-bono with our board and staff. Thanks, Doug!!!

    We Need More Volunteers!

    If you would like to be a volunteer, please Get Involved or call us at 866-922-4273.

  • AmazonSmile Donations

    AmazonSmile Donations

    Recently I saw one of our former Agape foster children. Zakaria is now a beautiful young woman, poised, self-confident, accomplished. I am thankful for Patrick and Janet Mitchell who so lovingly invited her into their family and their hearts.

    People sometimes ask me, ā€œWhy do you need to raise money?ā€ Agape relies on fundraising to provide the quality of program our youth need and deserve. This includes Masterā€™s level social workers to work with the children. We have enrichment programs such as music, dance and sports, which are fun but also therapeutic. We recruit, train and then support the best possible foster parents.

    Our social workers are in the foster home every week to be sure the child and family are supported with what they need. We provide intensive training which goes above and beyond minimum requirements. We want our children to have the best!

    You can be assured that every dollar contributed will be put to good use. Each child, like Zakaria, is important and each donation ā€“ large or small ā€“ is important. We canā€™t do our work with abused and neglected children and youth without generous, compassionate donors.

    @AmazonSmile makes it easy for you to donate so we can touch more foster kidsā€™ lives. All you have to do is shop Amazon through this special link, smile.amazon.com/ch/68-0226944, and a portion of your purchase goes to us.

    Janet Kleyn, President, Agape Villages, Inc.