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Widow Spotlight: Meet Linet, Caregiver at the Geta Kinship Project
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
Orphan Rescue Spotlight: Three Girls Safe Today Thanks to You
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
Your Gifts Filled Their Bellies and Restored Their Family
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
Cleaning Up Deadly Water: How Your Gifts Saved Lives in Thailand
March 20th was World Water Day, and you celebrated in your usual amazing fashion. When you heard about the dangerous water at the Mae Pa Kinship Project in Thailand, you jumped in to clean it up for them. More Kinship Projects need clean water! Donate online now or text WATERKU to 41444, and 100% of your gift will be used for clean water solutions. Mae Pa Kinship is serving hundreds of refugee children and families living in a trash dump. The water is a death trap, full of bacteria and waste. Imagine little babies, elderly women, and precious school children Newsletter
Kinship Care Profile: Cambodia
Leakena is an orphan. It happened like it could have happened to anyone – first her father died in a car accident, and then her mother died of cancer just six months later. Leakena was only five years old at the time, and she had nowhere to go. Kinship Cambodia comes alongside orphans and widows who are living with relatives within their local community, and need some extra support. And so, Kinship Cambodia found Leakena, who was living with her relatives. There was not enough food for everyone, and no money for school supplies or fees. Leakena and her siblings Newsletter
