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December 21, 2020

Will You Open Your Heart to Orphans Like Gloria this Christmas Season?

A young girl from Kenya with a slight smile

Kinship United serves areas where disease, extreme poverty, armed conflict, and society’s structural breakdown cause families to decay.  For millions of displaced, refugee, and scattered families, there is often a moment they realize they need to separate themselves from each other so they may survive. In humanitarian aid organizations there is a name for children […]

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December 7, 2020

Abandoned Children Like MuMu Need Your Help this Christmas Season

Smiling young girl from Thailand

This year has been challenging for everyone. Covid-19, and its effects on schools, businesses, and families have reached into nearly every home across the globe. But the virus presents unique challenges for developing countries and our Kinship Projects. Fear is around every corner, it seems. But we can take comfort in remembering that Jesus came […]

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December 17, 2019

You Can Help Kinship Kids like Moses with These Most Requested Christmas Items

Moses from the Buloba Kinship Project in Uganda

Moses is 14 years old and calls the Buloba Kinship Project in Uganda “home”. Like most of the precious children your gifts are serving, his story has a tragic beginning. Moses’s mother was HIV positive and his father left the family after discovering her diagnosis. He was only three years old when his dad split. […]

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April 4, 2017

An Open Letter to YOU, Our Cherished Donor

Kinship Kids have big dreams for their futures. But for most of them, the cost of continuing on to higher education is overwhelming.

Dear friend, Do me a favor and think back to when you were a senior in high school. Remember the carefree joy of being 18 years old with little to no responsibility or worry. What were you looking forward to after graduation? Going to college? A cross country road trip? A fun summer with your […]

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December 9, 2016

Watuwa, the Expert Flashlight Fixer!

Watuwa from Matibo Kinship in Uganda

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 […]

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