“IT IS NOT BECAUSE THINGS ARE DIFFICULT THAT WE DO NOT DARE; IT IS BECAUSE WE DO NOT DARE THAT THINGS ARE DIFFICULT” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4BC – 65AD).

Community Well-Being Network “CWN” initially Children Well-Being Network, Inc. is the legacy of Dr. Andre Ghattas Karam (February 10, 1926 – May 5, 2009) a PhD in Social Welfare from Columbia University in New York whose life was dedicated to promote the basic human needs of poor children and help improve their living conditions worldwide.

Andre believed in a self-help bottom-up – individual to community, micro to macro – community-based approach allowing heads of households to create sustainable job opportunities and face head on the root causes of poverty.

Community Well-Being Network, Inc. “CWN”, operates as an eleemosynary corporation – Public Charity status 509(a)(2) – under the laws of the state of South Carolina and is exempt from federal income tax under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 501(c)(3) to help meet the basic human needs (economic, medical, educational, social, cultural, and environmental) of poor children and improve their living conditions and quality of life, particularly in collaboration with their families, communities, governmental and non-governmental institutions within the framework of an integrated community-based economic and social development approach. 

Donors can deduct contributions they make to CWN under IRC Section 170.

CWN is also qualified to receive tax-deductible bequests, devises, transfers or gifts under Section 2055, 2106, or 2522.