MENTORSHIP

Mentoring is an aspect of discipleship. Takin Back's focus is to build a program to foster Christ-centered relationships through sharing education, wisdom and life experience. The purpose of a mentor is to help and encourage the mentee to achieve their potential and discover their strengths. We believe the power of relationship building is one of the main pillars in the process of breaking the cycle of the spiritual and physical struggle that so often traps children and youth.

Through our mentorship program we desire to accomplish the following:

  • For each mentee to simply feel loved and, through that love, come to know Jesus.
  • Help our mentees tap into their potential and actually go after it.
  • Help our mentees set up three major goals they want to complete within the next year.
  • Teach our mentees basic life skills that can help them throughout life.
  • See mentorship develop into discipleship, which may open up the door for youth to dig deeper into the Bible and grow stronger in their walk with the Lord. 
  • Foster the mentorship program through enabling participants to impact and mentor others around them.

Education

We believe education is a fundamental part of life. We want to provide the children that come through our mentorship program the opportunity to attend school and chase after their dreams. Giving a child a chance to receive an education is a powerful and vital tool in helping them break the cycle of poverty. Our hope is that, by raising up a generation of children who are educated and discipled in Christ, they will empower others around them and provide a positive change. Studies have shown that sponsored children have a high rate of staying in school, attending a University and establishing stable employment. When sponsoring a child through our program, all donors will be assisting in the cost of the mentorship program, school fees and supplies. Our mentors will also accompany their mentee’s education development, encouraging them and helping them with school work. 

The LOve initiative

 “The Love Initiative” is among Takin Back’s major yearly projects. Our goal is to launch a campaign every May that will focus on gathering resources that can meet an immediate need of a community in El Salvador. Whether we raise funds to finance a thousand pairs of shoes or to purchase cows and chickens that can be used to feed families, “The Love Initiative” is dedicated to taking our love for the El Salvadoran people a step further. Not only are we able to assist with an immediate need, we also have the chance to build new relationships with churches and local communities. We believe that by fostering those partnerships, we are able to walk alongside communities as they grow and flourish. 

The culmination of “The Love Initiative” is a mission trip in the month of July. This is the opportunity for donors and partners to travel to El Salvador and meet the community that “The Love Initiative” focused on, and actually deliver the aid. People interested in going on this trip start preparing for it earlier in the year. As a part of the process, they also get to work with Takin Back’s team in all of the stages of “The Love Initiative.”