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When Ian’s mom died, his whole world turned upside down, inside out, and shook him out into a reality he could hardly believe. She’d been sick, but not that sick - or so Ian thought. When he woke up one morning to his uncle telling him his mother was dead, he was in complete shock. Ian never knew his father, and is an only child. It was him and his mom against the world. When she died, he was left to face the world alone. He was only 10 years old.   Ian was taken in by a family who Newsletter

Last month, you gave over $32,000 to open up the Nyasi Kinship Project in Kenya so they could rescue up to 30 desperate orphans from their community. Thanks to your generosity, these children will have beds and bedding, a clean water well, school uniforms and clothes, kitchen utensils, bathrooms and clean tile floors in their new home. In the struggling village of Nyasi, fathers abandon their young wives and children, HIV is leaving children orphaned, families are starving, children have become street thieves because they can’t go to school, and people are homeless. This community desperately needs a safe haven Newsletter

Our unique and effective Kinship model brings both orphans and widows together under one roof, helping each other through their grief and sorrow. Widows serve as the orphans’ caregivers, giving them new life and purpose, and giving the children the love and affection they desperately need.   In many cultures where our Kinship Projects operate, women who lose their husbands, are outcasts. They are seen as cursed or deserving of their fate. Where there are high rates of alcoholism and poverty, domestic abuse becomes a serious problem, and yet many women stay in dangerous situations because without her husband, a woman’s Caregivers

Before finding her new home at the Cayacoa Kinship Project, Genesis had spent her whole life bouncing around between different homes with her two sisters. The real stories of orphan rescue always hit us hard. No matter how many times we’ve done this, we’re never prepared for the pain and loss that is so raw on precious little children’s faces when they experience the mix of hope and fear of the unknown before moving into a Kinship home. Imagine hearing a knock at your door and opening it to find three girls and an old woman standing on your front Child Stories

You already know that your generous support fills the bellies of hungry children living in Kinship Homes around the world. But did you know that you’re also feeding the hungry children living within their communities? Children like Esther, Jerome, Geraldine, and Rinah. And this time, just like ripples in water, the impact of your gifts spread out even further. Every day at lunch time, Esther and her siblings walked to the Kireka Kinship Project in Uganda. They’re part of the Kinship Project’s feeding program, and the caregivers were always happy to see them and give them a hot meal. But Community