Critical Wisdom

Learn more about the subjects that affect the communities you care about

The Bible reminds us that every shared meal, every nourished child, and every supported family matters to God.

Orphaned and vulnerable children may experience several forms of childhood trauma, including violence, neglect, hunger, & separation.

Even in the darkest circumstances, kinship families offer something powerful: the reminder that no one should have to face loss alone.

Each year, World Malaria Day highlights global progress while underscoring an urgent reality: malaria still threatens millions of lives.

Many of the kids in our Kinships have experienced extreme trauma. To know how to help them, it's important to find out how it affected them.

Families searching for water in Africa are facing a crisis: they walk miles to collect water for survival. But it still might kill them.

In many cultures around the world, educating girls isn't a priority. But it can make all the difference for the global population.

Examine some of the complexities that make human trafficking so difficult to stop, and learn how we're working to prevent it before it starts.

In this thought-provoking talk, family activist, Mia Birdsong, discusses an alternative way to look at poverty and the people living in it.

Orphanhood and kinship care are different: an orphaned child may live in kinship care, but not every child in kinship care is an orphan.

Traffickers often target widows and orphans because loss can quickly strip away income, protection, and social support.

For centuries, churches and religious nonprofits have answered Scripture’s call to defend the vulnerable, including widows and orphans.

When communities unite around shared values such as compassion and service, those beliefs turn into collective action that changes lives.

Music can give grieving children the power to face traumatic memories and help them heal from some of the damage those experiences caused.

Missing a week of school every month is detrimental to a girl's education. But with this tool, she wouldn't have to miss anything.

In his TED talk, Michael Kimmel invites men into the fight for gender equality. And at Kinship United, we face this issue head on.

Listen to educator and activist, Kakenya Ntaiya, discuss dangerous gender roles in the Kenyan education system and her work to help girls in need.