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The Healing Power of a Safe Place: Ruth’s Story
When Ruth arrived at the Buloba Kinship Family home, the first thing she looked at was the door. Not the bed prepared for her. Not the women who welcomed her. Not the other children. Just the door and whether it would stay open. She was six years old. Local Council authorities and the police brought her to us. She came with no suitcase, no papers, no extra clothes. Only her name and a grief too heavy for a little girl to carry. Her mother had died. Her father had gone to South Sudan to look for work, hoping to provide Child Stories
More than Medicine: Hope for 1,780 People
We planned for one day. We set up the tent in Buloba, prepared the tables, organized the medications, briefed the team. One day. By midmorning the line was longer than we had prepared for. Mothers with children tied to their backs. Elderly men on walking sticks. Young boys and girls sitting in the heat, waiting with a quietness that took a moment to understand they had simply learned not to expect much. Widows came alone. Families came together. The sun went down and the line was still there. We came back the next day. Over two days we saw more Community
Kinship Family Spotlight: Chom Choa, Cambodia
Cambodian Kinship Families are known for their quick responses to community crises: from emergency flood relief, to handing out MannaPacks to their hungriest neighbors, to feeding families who lost everything to airstrikes. You may also know that Kinship Families in Cambodia do some amazing evangelism. And the orphan Kinship Kids are incredible young disciples! For the Chom Choa Kinship Family, a worship and youth leadership event was a tremendous success this spring. Teenaged Kinship Kids led those of all ages – over 100 kids total! – in a day of worship, music and singing, and Bible study. The theme was Newsletter
Washing Feet: You Saved HUNDREDS from Deadly Parasites
Desperate, hungry, sick, and poor communities exist in every area we serve, across nine countries around the world. Orphans are rescued, and desperate widows given purpose, but thanks to you, outreach doesn’t stop there. It reaches villages whose suffering goes unknown by the rest of the world. By the time Kenya in-country leader Elizabeth heard about Wehonia village, the situation was dire. The jiggers infestation in Wehonia took the life of a 9-year-old girl raised by her 99-year-old grandmother, who was powerless to save her. Jiggers are parasite mites that chew into human feet, leading to extreme pain and infections Newsletter
No More Pain: Yahir Can Smile Again
Yahir is only three, but he has endured more than any child ever should. His blind mother accidentally burned him with hot water while trying to cook a meal. But that wasn’t the most painful thing little Yahir has felt. Yahir had a large hernia in a private area on his body. It kept growing. He was in constant pain and spent every day crying. There was no relief, and it was getting worse. Neighbors noticed and urged his mother to take him to the hospital, but she could not afford it. She felt stuck. That’s when a Good Samaritan Newsletter
