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When our team in Guatemala met Andrea*, she was 12 years old, scared, and pregnant. Andrea had spent a year of her life being sold to neighbors to help make ends meet at home. According to the U.S. Department of Labor, “Children in Guatemala are subjected to the…
A young mother reads her Bible at Kharis House. In Zambia, many young girls must help provide for their families to buy food or to go to school. Because of this cultural expectation—and with the additional pressures of multi-generational poverty and food insecurity—girls as young as 4th grade…
Young boys gather with friends on the Tanzania Children's Rescue Center campus. For the first four years of his life, Lonii lived with his mother and father in his grandmother's home in Tanzania. Soon after, his parents divorced and left his grandmother to take care of him. As…
Miriam and her three children stand outside their new home. Miriam was recommended by her church to our team in Haiti as a candidate in need of a home. In April of 2023, our team at Welcome Home Haiti built a house for her and her family. Miriam’s…
Alex plants berries in Ukraine. Even when the war in Ukraine began and one of Lifesong's farms was damaged, Sergei, an orphanage graduate and manager of Lifesong Farms, decided to continue working. He wanted to be able to help others by offering employment to those who needed it…
Together, we help orphans know they are seen, known, and loved. We're excited to share our 2023 Stories of Redemption with you. Considering the stories that have unfolded this year—including the ongoing war in Ukraine and the escalating political unrest in Haiti and Ethiopia—we're humbled by the ways…
Limesha takes notes in class. Limesha knows the feeling of being alone. After her parents died, she began living with her grandparents where her grandmother needed her to help take care of her grandfather who is blind. When she came home from school, instead of studying or having…
Yosef (middle) studies with his classmates. In the region where we serve in Ethiopia, less than 20% of high-school-aged children attend high school and only 3% of students make it to 11th and 12th grade, according to a 2022 UNICEF report. That’s why, after years of planning, our…
Vlad grew up in an orphanage from birth to eleventh grade. He believed he had no one to protect him and no one to believe in him, which is hard to understand or forgive. He explains— "One day, we were all gathered into a classroom where we were…
Patrick and his friend complete an art project in school. By the time Patrick* turned 10 years old, he had been rejected, abandoned, and mistreated by his mother, father, and two aunts. More than once, he was told to leave home. After fleeing from guardian to guardian, a…