Congolese civilians have already experienced over a decade of violence with the civil war that has killed 5 million people between 1997 and 2003. In addition, the rise in militia groups, HIV/AIDS cases and the Ebola outbreak has left thousands of children orphaned and abandoned,...
Agape Hope Children's home has a mission to provide a safe, nurturing environment for orphaned children in Kenya. Every child who calls Agape Hope home has a different story. Some have lost both parents and have no relatives or close family friends to take them...
Pramod Anderson serves as the field photographer for Serving Orphans Worldwide. Having grown up at an orphanage outside of Mumbai, he is very familiar with the challenges that many children face at our partner homes. Once he aged out of care, he developed a passion...
Paul in Vietnam, 1971 We are thankful for Paul L. Black, a US Marine who joined us on our Ambassador Tour last Christmas to the Center of Hope in Vietnam. We got the chance to sit with him, and hear about his amazing story of...
Ronnie Mosely, founder of Capturing Grace Photography is a Humanitarian photographer with a story to tell. After the heartbreaking loss of his twenty seven year old daughter Christina to cancer in 2013, he found himself in the most defining moment of his life. During the...
Jennifer and Gomathi with our field coordinator, Coleman Bailey. Last November, we asked our SOW family to help support two aging out young girls from our partner home, Destiny Village to fulfill their dreams of going to nursing school. The caste system, gender biases, child marriage, and poverty are...
The Ebola virus has been spreading in DR Congo at its fastest rate yet, according to the World Health Organization. Ebola is often a fatal disease, that is easily spread and not easily contained. During the past several months in Eastern DR Congo where our SOW...
I love watching Sandeepa and Zioni, laughing and smiling as they play with the other children at City of Hope. No matter the situation, or how bad my jokes are, they are consistently the first ones to laugh and the loudest at doing so. In...
The status for orphaned girls in South Asia is one of unique difficulty. Not only do they have the challenge of navigating life without the guidance and provision of their parents, they must also seek to live while fighting various stigmas around being orphaned and...