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FriendShips (Park West Children’s Fund) was established to provide programs for battered, abused, and handicapped children. As the organization grew, we had a vision for a ship that would travel the world bringing aid. That was the start of a journey that has carried us for the past 40 years, providing disaster relief and humanitarian aid to countries around the world. Friend Ships has delivered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cargo to the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Central America, North America, and the Caribbean.

Our History

FriendShips (Park West Children’s Fund) was established to provide programs for battered, abused, and handicapped children. As the organization grew, we had a vision for a ship that would travel the world bringing aid. That was the start of a journey that has carried us for the past 40 years, providing disaster relief and humanitarian aid to countries around the world. Friend Ships has delivered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of cargo to the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, Central America, North America, and the Caribbean.

Our Mission

Friend Ships (Park West Children’s Fund, Inc.) is dedicated to fulfilling the Biblical scriptures that teach us to help people in times of need and to encourage others to do likewise. The organization works through collecting, delivering, and distributing food, medical supplies, clothing, and building materials and by providing medical services, disaster relief, and training. We provide aid to people of all races, nationalities, and religions. Programs give help to children, families, and individuals who are impoverished, refugees, and/or victims of natural disasters and to the institutions that assist them. Friend Ships operates with all full-time and part-time unpaid volunteers, working within the US and in many areas around the world.

Our Values

To be people that place God first and foremost, as the center and reason for all we do, think and speak. God is the foundation for the values and ideals we hold dear.

What We Do

In 1985, PWCF acquired the first of two 5000-ton cargo ships that we used to transport food, medical supplies, clothing, building materials, emergency vehicles, and other commodities to Christian organizations for distribution to needy people. The ships delivered thousands of tons of aid, without charge, to Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua), the Caribbean (Haiti, Antiqua, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts), Eastern Europe (Croatia and Albania), the former Soviet Union, West Africa (Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ghana) and the Middle East (Israel). We also sent aid to many nations by airlift and commercial ship and established a food rescue program for needy people in the US that, to date, has distributed, 66 million pounds of food.

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