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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
Angeles Custudios is an orphanage caring for 80 children that’s run by the Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart near Medellín, Columbia. Government authorities were…
At the Village of Eden, a children’s home located in rural Busia, Uganda, our donors helped equip the only medical laboratory for hundreds of miles….
After the World Orphan Fund provided emergency funding to Casita Copan in Copan Ruinas, Honduras to rescue 13 children who had been living in a rat-infested home…
Grupo de Amor began building a family-style residence in 2011, but it was still under construction three years later. The plan was for it to…
When we first visited Montana de Luz in El Paraíso, Honduras, an orphanage caring for children with HIV, they told us they could handle anything as…