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Watuwa, the Expert Flashlight Fixer!
Every child wonders what they will do with their future. I know when I was little, I had all sorts of dreams about my future. I went through lots of ideas, like veterinarian or zookeeper or writer. Do you remember what you dreamed about being when you grew up? The Kinship kids think a lot about their future too! They have their own dreams and struggles about what they want to do when they grow up. Watuwa was born with a disease that plagued him through all of childhood. This disease made it difficult for him to speak and to Orphans
What You can Do on World AIDS Day
Today is World AIDS Day. For many of us, AIDS can seem like a faraway thing. A huge issue, but not one that affects our day to day lives. But for the kids that live in many of our Kinship Projects, particularly the ones in Africa, HIV/AIDS is an incredibly big deal. It’s something that has the potential to derail their entire futures, and taint the rest of their lives. Some of the children in our Kinship Projects were born to parents who had HIV/AIDS, and because of this were born with it. Others became infected later in life, due Community, Orphans
Six Orphans Remind Us to Be Thankful EVERYDAY!
For an orphan, it is all about the little things. With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I asked Giovanni, our in-country leader in the Dominican Republic, to ask a couple of the children living in the Cayacoa Kinship Project a simple question, “What are you thankful for?” Don’t forget, he's asking this question to a group of children who have been rescued from the streets. Young girls and boys who have survived the horrors of human trafficking, child slavery, and abuse. They have lived through the worst situations and scenarios and yet, they remain thankful. These six orphans remind Orphans
World Orphan Day – And YOU’RE the Hero!
Today is World Orphan Day. A day created to remind us about orphans in our world, and how we should care for and protect them. At Kinship United, we don’t need to be reminded of this day. It’s marked on our calendars, and more importantly, it’s marked on our hearts. And we know, based off your support over the years, that the same is true for you. You’ve helped us care for orphans for more than 15 years. You’ve cared for children who lost their parents to war, natural disaster, political conflict, malnutrition, and terrible diseases. Your help has changed Child Stories, Orphans
How Can Choir be Better than Therapy?
Music can help heal children from their traumatic pasts. Sometimes, when looking at a picture of smiling children from our Kinship Projects, it’s easy to forget how traumatic their pasts have been. But these are children who have all suffered greatly before finding their way into a Kinship home. They've lost their parents, either by death or abandonment. They have endured hardships that most of us can’t even imagine. One of the ways that the children express these emotions and process their hard pasts is through music. Our Kinship Projects have had great success using music as therapy for the Music
