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When Bugs Are Literally Crawling Under Your Skin
Picture it: the sun is shining and you decide to leave your shoes inside and walk around your backyard barefoot this summer. You feel the soft grass under your feet and between your toes. It even tickles a bit! It’s total bliss until you feel a sharp pain shoot through the bottom of your foot. You’ve stepped on a thorn! Annoyed, you pull out the thorn and clean off the area. The irritation goes away after a few minutes. But what if the pain didn’t go away? And you had it every time you took a step. That feeling is Child Stories, Medical
Orphans & Widows – Bringing God’s Word to Life
If you’ve worked with Kinship United before, you know our mission. You know we restore the childhoods of orphans and give widows the opportunity to care for them in a loving family environment, the Kinship Home. But have you ever wondered why orphans and widows? They connect on a level not everyone can. They both know the excruciating heartbreak of losing someone they love so much. A feeling you might know as well. What’s worse, in many countries around the world, orphans and widows are shunned and mistreated. Their families reject them and they find themselves alone and vulnerable. Like Orphan Rescue, Orphans and Widows
This May be the Worst Crime Towards Women!
Will you join the Lumut Kinship Project in their fight to end FGM in the Pokot Tribe by supporting them with $50 a month? Maybe you’re lucky enough that you’ve never heard of FGM? Or if you have, then maybe you’re lucky enough to feel that it’s “far away” and you’ve no reason to fear it will ever happen to you or the women you love. The women in the Lumut Kinship Project in Kenya aren’t that lucky. They aren’t “far-away” from this evil practice, in fact, they are very close to it. FGM (Female Gentile Mutilation) is a practice of Kinship
Girls in Kenya Can’t Fight This. But You Can.
Support an Orphan's Education Imagine if the day a beautiful baby girl was born, her potential had an expiration date. She was free to learn and grow and go to school until… the day she got her period. Yes, you read that right. It sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Why should your daughter, niece, sister, or cousin miss a whole week of school every month, fall behind her male peers, and eventually miss out on her dream job? Is that the life you pictured for her? I bet that’s not what she pictured for herself either. It may seem strange to Education
Giving Thanks by Giving Back
“His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this has happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” Appreciation
