According to data from the Health and Social Development Ministry, more than 730,000 children in Russia either have
no parents or have been abandoned by their parents. Of this number, 200,000 live in ...
Follow a young woman off the plane, down winding dusty paths, and through the doors of an orphanage where children are waiting to teach you the most important lessons in life. Travel past the ...
Follow the link below to read two articles from Together for Adoption about Haiti's Orphan Crisis. Though these articles are geared towards Haiti, they have themes that are applicable to ...
"In Love Mercy: A Mother and Daughter's Journey from the American Dream to the Kingdom of God, having lived a life of plenty in suburban America, Lisa Samson and her eighteen-year-old daughter, ...
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people live in urban slums, and this figure will double in the next 30 years. Put another way, one of every three people who lives in a city, ...
This book tells the heartbreaking story of the many poor and underprivleged children in India. It also shares hope for their futures:
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This resource is to aid social work and child care practitioners and policy makers around the world in planning and providing better care for children—including family strengthening and out of home ...
Recently Jeff Anderson, ACTION street children missionary in the Philippines, gave some guideline suggestions to a ministry in the Ukraine regarding beginning a ministry to street children. We ...
This book is valuable reading for anyone concerned about children at risk worldwide. In Reaching Children in Need, the founder and International Director of Viva Network, Patrick McDonald, tells the ...
In many Bibles, Christ's words are set apart with a red font. It should be obvious, but this distinction helps remind us that when God becomes Man and that Man speaks it's probably something we ...
Under the guidance of editor Dr. Phyllis Kilbourn, a group of writers who know intimately the distressing
circumstances of suffering children give Christians and people of compassion ...
This excellent article by the director of the Christian Alliance for Orphans, Jedd Medefind, addresses the hard question that so many of us have wrestled with: Given the struggle and sorrow that ...
Dr. Susan Hillis of the CDC shares the most up-to-date government statistics on the magnitude of the orphan problem, as well as offers hope for potential solutions. Video footage from the 2009 ...
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is ...
Michael Oher is the young man at the center of the true story depicted in The Blind Side movie (and book) that swept up awards and accolades. Though the odds were heavily stacked against ...
"Preventing the Spread of HIV Infection Among Street Children" by Ruslan Maliuta (President of The Alliance for Ukraine without Orphans) and Natalia Kitsenko (Director of HIV Prevention at The ...
The material in this 18-lesson module (202 pages) is designed to train those working, or desiring to work, with street children. A foundational course, it helps participants understand who ...
This 14-lesson module (181 pages) is intended for people already working with child soldiers or people preparing to work with child soldiers and/or children in contexts of armed ...
The urban streets open their arms to welcome the abandoned child. Innocense is lost in the struggle to survive.
Anyone working in urban mission or with forgotten children will be motivated by ...