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 long as they had their medication and transportation to take kids to see specialists up to three times a week.
Then, they lost their van in a crash and needed $15,000 to replace it as soon a possible. We put the alert out to our donors, and in just three days we had the resources wired to Honduras.
Some of you know about our efforts at the World Orphan Fund to reduce electric costs for the two largest orphanages in Honduras. Our plan will…
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.
After working with children’s homes for a several years, we were dismayed by the lack of guidance and life skills provided to teens to prepare…
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…
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…
Rayo de Esperanza Orphanage is a family based home for children located in Rio Dulce, Guatemala. The city of Rio Dulce had been sporadically cutting off…