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August 17, 2017

Partnering Up to Make a Big Impact in Burkina Faso

Widow Sankara receives emergency food supplies in Burkina Faso.

Did you know that your gifts not only work together with Kinship United’s international partners, but they also work with other organizations! Ecclesiastes says, “A cord of three strands is not easily broken”, and you are one vital strand in that cord.Here’s how:Earlier this month, our partners in Burkina Faso discovered that a local organization, […]

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March 8, 2017

This Widow’s Love For Her Kids Kept Her Moving Forward

Widowed with four children, this determined woman from the Emmanuel Kinship in Kenya built up her own small business to feed her kids.

Widows know the pain of tremendous loss. Death completely shatters the life they once knew, and they’re left alone to pick up the pieces. But sometimes they use that pain and suffering as a catalyst for ambition. One woman in the Emmanuel Kinship Project community in Kenya did just that. She found herself widowed with four […]

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January 24, 2017

Hopeless in Paradise – Murder, Disease, and Teenage Pregnancy

Gloria is a widow living in Honduras, a mother of five, and is crippled by a mystery illness.

Gloria is a widow, a mother of five, and is crippled by a mystery illness. She has an untreated condition that leaves her in constant pain. She’s gnarled by sickness and broken-hearted over the unavenged murder of her husband. And the worst part is that within her remote Honduran village, there’s no hope for her. […]

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December 1, 2016

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 […]

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November 2, 2016

This Widow’s Powerful Faith in God is Transforming Her Village

Men Thyda started a church in her home in Cambodia

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 […]

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