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November 9, 2016

How Can Choir be Better than Therapy?

Music can help heal children from their traumatic past

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 […]

Article by Katie Kmetty / Music / music, music therapy Leave a Comment

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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October 27, 2016

What Does United Nations Day Have To Do With You?

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

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 […]

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October 3, 2016

Orphans and Widows Deserve a Place to Call Home

Choppakatlapalem Home in India - 4

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 […]

Article by Katie Kmetty / Orphans and Widows / Kinship, World Habitat Day

September 21, 2016

3 Incredible Refugee Stories You Might Have Missed

Thailand Refugees

One of my favorite parts of the Olympics was the team of refugee who competed together. Before Yusra Mardini even competed in the Olympics, she had already saved her 20 shipmates from drowning when their boat capsized while escaping from Syria to Germany. She swam for three hours to ensure that they all made it […]

Article by Katie Kmetty / Child Stories / Kinship, refugee, South Sudan, Syria

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