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This Is Why I Stay: A Caregiver’s Testimony of Hope
I still remember the day Samuel and his family came to our Kinship Home in Buloba. I had just returned from the market, and my arms were full of food for the children. That’s when I saw Pastor Kashofo standing at the gate. He waved me over. Beside him was a woman with three children. They looked so tired. Their clothes were dusty. Their faces carried the weight of a long, hard journey. The mother’s eyes… I will never forget her eyes. They were full of pain, the kind of pain only a mother running from war can carry. One Orphans and Widows
Christmas is On Its Way!
Thank you for keeping Kinship Kids’ happiness in mind when you look forward to Christmas this year. Stay tuned for An Orphan’s Wish List to see what wishes you can grant: from basics like food and clean water, to worship instruments or a Bible! Giving Tuesday follows Thanksgiving and Black Friday. It’s the National Day of Giving, on December 2nd this year! That’s the day your gift gives every Kinship Kid a present of their own to open on Christmas morning, and provides every Kinship Project with a special feast to celebrate Jesus’s birth! Did you know that last year Newsletter
You Did It Again: You Healed Hundreds in Uganda
Support Medical and Dental Care Efforts Lack of access to a hospital is the difference between life and death. There is no ambulance for an emergency. The nearest hospital will take an hour by motorbike, many hours if you have to walk. If you are pregnant, injured, or too sick to make the journey, you might not make it. Medical emergencies become deadly. Regular check-ups simply do not happen, and treatable illnesses become life-threatening. You enable life-saving free medical camps in those places, especially East Africa, where Kinship United has hosted several camps in recent years, all because of you. Newsletter
You Did It Again: You Fed Hundreds of Desperate Refugees
Support Emergency Response and Refugee Relief In our last newsletter, you read about the blue tarps, water filters, food, blankets, mats, and mosquito netting you gave to displaced refugee families on the Cambodia-Thailand border. Your life-saving generosity didn’t end there. Because you know war and hunger aren’t crises that can be solved by feeding people on just one day. Ongoing Relief Efforts This is the third trip Kinship Cambodia and Kinship Thailand took to the overcrowded, unprotected outdoor camps at the border in as many months. These settlements are filled with disabled elderly, widows who lost their husbands to war, Newsletter
Grief Shaped Her, Love Restored Her: Milly’s Story
Most of the children we serve together carry heavy burdens of trauma, loss, and grief. Some have lived through violence or abuse. Others were abandoned or left unwanted. Many fled from war or barely survived disasters. And then there are children who were once deeply loved and cared for - until tragedy stole their parents away. That was Kisakye Milly’s heartbreaking story. Life Before Her Buloba Kinship Family Even before Milly was born, her mother fought fiercely to protect her. While just a few months pregnant, she fled the violence and tribal wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo, walking Child Stories
