International Care Ministries (ICM - www.caremin.com) has been serving the poor in the Philippines since 1992. At ICM, we believe that no one should live in abject poverty. With the right support, the right training and the right resources, the bondages of poverty can be broken. In the past few years, ICM's community-based, holistic solutions have reached more than 750,000 people living in poverty - building resilience and greater well-being in families and whole communities across the Visayas and Mindanao. This wide impact is possible through a strategy of partnering with the local churches found in most low-income Philippine communities, inspiring hope and providing help to transform lives. After our four-month Transform program, ICM's ultrapoor participants experience: 106% increase in household income (from 26 cent to 51 cent per person per day) 28% decrease in serious illnesses 43% increase in self-worth Our Vision Ultrapoor families released from physical, emotional and spiritual bondage Our Mission Deliver the right support, right training and right resources to unlock the bondages of poverty ICM takes a chance on families that other organisations can’t or won’t reach. Our focus is on children living in poverty at the absolute bottom of the economic ladder. ICM provides help, inspires hope and creates change in families earning less than US$0.50 a day. “Few nonprofits operate with such clarity about who their strategy is designed to help.” — Paul Penley, Excellence in Giving Report 2017.