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Dancing Towards a Brighter Future: An Inspirational Story of Healing
Our Kinship Kids inspire us daily. Many of the children who join our Kinship Projects have suffered through unimaginable trauma and circumstances. It may take time (we’re in this for the long haul!), but through patience and prayer, our children begin to heal. We start to see them smile more and laugh a little bit. They slowly begin mouthing the words to songs at church and eventually singing out loud. It can also be that they stop flinching any time someone moves near them too quickly. Kinship Projects try to offer their children a multitude of resources for them to Music
No Timeline on Trauma: How Long-Term Care Helped Jefferson Heal
When a child experiences extreme trauma at a young age, the side effects of it can often be long-lasting. And even after an organization like ours rescues that child, healing doesn’t happen overnight. Which is why Kinship Projects offer long-term solutions and care for children like Jefferson. At the young age of only two, Jefferson experienced extreme trauma at the hands of his father. Child protective services in the Dominican Republic asked our Cayacoa Kinship Project if they could care for young Jefferson until he healed and could be placed with another family member. However, his road to recovery was Child Stories
The Gift of Life: Your Generosity Gave John a Second Chance
John has faced more hardship than any child should endure at just six years old. A member of one of our community programs in Uganda, John lives with his mother and four siblings. John’s father was brutally murdered, and his mother is sick with HIV. With his dad gone and mom struggling, John has a difficult time understanding why all of this happened to him. As Christmas approached, John couldn't help but feel a sense of dread. He’d always loved the holiday season. But last year, it seemed to hold nothing but sadness. And then just when things felt like Child Stories
Emergency Jiggers Treatment Camp
A young jigger is nearly invisible. The parasitic bug burrows into a person’s skin and latches onto blood vessels. Within days, it swells to over 1000 times its size, laying eggs outside its host’s body. Shortly after, the infestation brings pain, bleeding, itching, and infection. It’s difficult to eat, sleep, and walk. Children stop going to school. Adults can’t care for their families. The elderly become captive in their homes. Worst of all, due to widespread cultural beliefs, people infested with jiggers are often shunned for the “curse” painfully visible upon their bodies. After investigating premature deaths and finding thousands Newsletter
Upholding God’s Word, Every Single Day
In John 9:4, Jesus says, “As long as it is day, we must do the works of Him who sent me.” That means upholding God’s Word daily, without fail. We must work hard in the name of God and all He has charged us to do. Every day, we follow God’s charge to uplift the orphan and the widow. You have joined us, and you make this mission possible. Kinship Projects uphold this challenge, too. They rescue orphans with empty stomachs, tattered clothes, and no beds to sleep in. They care for, educate, house, and lift up these orphans with Newsletter
