In the News: Ukraine Orphan Crisis
The recent trip to Ukraine by World Orphan Fund president, RJ Johnson, and board member, Joe Spadino generated some media stories while they were there…
Easter in Western Ukraine
On the Wednesday before Easter, World Orphan Fund president RJ Johnson and another board member, Joe Spadino, flew to Romania and crossed into Ukraine for…
Ukraine Orphan Crisis
Volunteers have made extraordinary efforts to get children out out of harms way in Ukraine following the Russian invasion. Some have been evacuated to the relative safety of western Ukraine, while many others have been evacuated to Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Moldova and other countries.
With bombings happening all around them they had to quickly gather their documents, papers and passports, and left with little except the clothing they were wearing and maybe a favorite toy.
Walker Center
We opened the Walker Center for Early Childhood Development in San Lucas, Guatemala in November 2017 to provide the earliest and most effective interventions for those children in orphan care with development delays due to neglect, abuse, and malnutrition.
Pandemic Emergency Funding
In February of 2019, we visited Casa de Los Niños, an orphanage in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It’s a remarkable outfit run by Italian Aristide Gazzotti. Back…
New Girls Dormitory
In February 2020, just ahead of the COVID storm, we visited Acres of Hope in Nebbi, Uganda. It’s an amazing place where they farm tilapia,…
Pandemic Food Funding
In August of 2020, we received an urgent text that two orphanages in Kenya were in a food crisis and reducing portions in order to…
Children’s Home Rebuild
We visited Mum’s Love children’s home near the slums in Nairobi, Kenya in early 2020. It’s well run and lives up to its name, but…
New Tractor
We visited Casa Padre Wasson (an NPH home) in Bolivia for the first time in March of 2019. Located in a small rural village south…
Rescue & Care for Special Needs Children
In late 2018, the Honduran Childcare Agency DINAF decided to shut down an orphanage where 17 special-needs orphans were being neglected and abused. The conditions…