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March 3, 2021

From Solitude to Belonging: How This Caregiver Found Healing in Her Kinship Project

A caregiver stands smiling

Maureen is a widow and a caregiver at the Nyasi Kinship Project in Kenya. Even at such a young age, her life’s journey has taken her from happiness to loss and from solitude to belonging. After Maureen finished her final school exams, she faced immediate pressure from her stepmother to get married. When she did […]

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July 16, 2018

Widow Spotlight: Meet Linet, Caregiver at the Geta Kinship Project

Linet has been through a lot before ending up safe 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 […]

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February 23, 2018

Caring for Widows: Lonely Woman Finds New Purpose as a Caregiver

Caregiver Margret from Buloba Kinship in Uganda

One of the things that makes Kinship United so unique is our model. In a Kinship Project, widows and orphans find a home together, under the same roof where a church congregation worships. Widows serve as loving caregivers for the children, and the orphans give the women a fresh purpose in life.   Margret is a […]

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September 1, 2016

Kinship Can Make All the Difference . . . for Everyone!

Pastor Vincent from Uganda

Displaced children rescued by our Kinship Projects experience miracles often. And sometimes, these miracles happen in unexpected ways. In our Kinship Projects, the pastors and the caregivers are often given back just as much joy and love as they give to the orphans they minister to. Both need each other. And God uses these needs […]

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March 28, 2016

5 Unlikely People You’d Meet in a Kinship Home

Robai for Ephraim Kinship Home

Just like it takes a whole village to raise a child, it also takes a LOT of people to keep a Kinship Home functioning! There are way more people in each of our Kinship Homes then you might even realize. First there’s the caregivers. You’ve probably heard about them, because they do so much we […]

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