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Sarah is 13 years old, and she carries the weight of the world on her shoulders. Though she lives with her mother and three younger siblings, she feels like she has no one to help her in this world. Without someone like you, her future is bleak. Sarah’s father died just a couple of months ago after a long and debilitating illness. Her mother is mentally ill, unable to do anything to provide for or care for her children. So, the burden to put food on the table for this family of five falls on Sarah’s shoulders alone. Every day Child Stories, Newsletter

You’re going to want to be a part of one of our highest-impact opportunities to save lives and make Kinship Projects stronger. The SOS Shipping Team is looking for people like YOU to join their exclusive ranks. Thousands of the orphans and widows you serve all over the world are paralyzed by food insecurity and get sick with easily-treated diseases. This team is responsible for sending food and medicine to Kinship Projects in communities with those desperate for relief. But how do we make sure just-rescued orphans have food to nourish them physically and emotionally? How do we treat thousands News

There's something special about family, and one of the goals of Kinship United is to reunite families who have been broken apart. Sometimes, children come into our Kinship Projects whose parents are still alive. Due to reasons like intense poverty or illness, these parents become unable to care for their children. This is where our Kinship Projects step in, welcoming the children into a place where they can be cared for.   Leticia was one of these children. Three years ago, she came to the Kireka Kinship Project because her parents couldn't take care of her. Her father was dead, and Child Stories

Almost two decades ago a few good buddies and some neighbors from our church were sitting around talking about an investigative news story we’d all watched the day before. It focused on a UN study that said there were an estimated tens of millions of orphans around the world as a result of war, famine, natural disasters, and other extreme events. The conversation drifted into the inevitable helpless feelings that the problem was so huge, what could any one person do? It’s how we all feel at first. But…this particular conversation didn’t stop there. Over the next few weeks we News

Chhan Soknet holds a box of life-saving food, supplied by Feed My Starving Children, with her family. Just a little while ago, Chhan Soknet’s life seemed pretty hopeless. And she was only 14 years old. She was barely making it to school because she had to work to support her family. Her father died when she was only a baby, and her mom wasn't able to work for a living anymore. But their family was starving. And soon Chhan Soknet would have to drop out of school completely to work full time. She grew weaker and weaker, both physically and Child Stories