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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
This Widow’s Powerful Faith in God is Transforming Her Village
Taking care of orphans and widows includes caring for them spiritually. In Cambodia orphans and widows are overlooked because of the Buddhist belief that what happens to a person in this life is based off how they lived in a past life. But Christianity teaches pure religion is to “look after orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27). Luckily for a widow in Cambodia a traveling evangelist took the words in James 1:27 to heart. Men Thyda’s Story: Men Thyda started a church in her home in Cambodia. Five years ago a travelling evangelist came to the remote village Community
What Does United Nations Day Have To Do With You?
How does the United Nations create sustainable development? Check out their goals to get a better idea. Monday was United Nations Day! This day celebrates the creation of the United Nations. Wait wait! Stick with me! I promise this will get interesting soon. The United Nations is an international body, created in the wake of WWII, in an attempt to avoid WWIII. It allows for international discussions and decisions to be made in peaceful ways. It acts as a global think tank for information on humanitarian issues, and seeks to provide humanitarian aid around the world. It’s extremely important, and United Nations
Orphans and Widows Deserve a Place to Call Home
Since caring for orphans and widows means so much to you, I want to let you know about a special day. October 3rd has been designated by the United Nations as World Habitat Day. It seems that everything in today’s world has it’s own “day of recognition” so, what makes this one so important? Is it to take a second and think about the environment in which we are living, and how our carbon footprint will affect wildlife in their natural habitat? Important, but no. Is it to reflect on the state of our own towns, our cities, and our Orphans and Widows
