Author: Drew Friedrich

an apartment for Adimir

Karen Springs, Regional Project Manager for Eastern Europe, CIS Countries and Middle East Projects reflects on a special young boy whose life was changed through our Keeping Families Together program.

serving hope in the slums of Yangon

Tim Daniell serves as the Project Manager for all Orphan’s Promise projects in Asia and the Pacific region. He is also heavily involved in directing our Keeping Families Together (KFT) initiative, which aims to equip families with the necessary tools and support to stay together, eliminating the orphan crisis in the process. Through our KFT and… Read more »

restoring Sarojini’s hope for the future

Sarojini lives with her parents, Annadura and Kidha, in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, India. Her father, Annadura, worked as a construction laborer for many years, providing the family’s only livelihood. Her mother, Kidha, is a homemaker. The family lives in desperate poverty. A few years ago, Annadura left for work one day, just as he had many… Read more »

bringing light to Mongolia

ORPHAN’S PROMISE HAS BEEN SUPPORTING THE MINISTRY OF MONGOLIAN ASIA REACH (MAR) FOR MORE THAN 6 YEARS.

Syrian refugees find hope far from home

For the last several years, Orphan’s Promise has been partnering with a local ministry, Heart for Lebanon, to reach and educate Syrian refugee children.

giving young Maasai girls their futures back

For several years, Orphan’s Promise has been partnering with Loom International, whose gifted staff of professionals provides intensive workshops for those who are on the front lines working with at risk youth.

hope in the slums of Nairobi

Orphan's Promise Kenya

missions of hope international Driving through the Muthare slums in Nairobi, Kenya, I’m reminded of the streets of Cap Haitien, Haiti. Dust, dirt, shanties, street-side pop-up markets and young children playing mere feet from the speeding traffic, most of them shoeless. This is my first time in Africa, and it’s far different than I imagined… Read more »

education unlocks the future for children in India

Orphan's Promise India Education Center

They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and never has that been more true than in the slums of India where millions of men, women and children survive by rummaging through piles of trash every day. This is a foreign concept for those of us in the West. We throw hundreds and thousands… Read more »

food for the children of Cabagra

Cabagra is an indigenous region in the south of Costa Rica. The natural beauty of the land is surpassed only by the Costa Rican people. The people of Cabagra are farmers, raising crops of corn, coffee and sugar cane, but the nation lacks the infrastructure to export these goods, resulting in wasted crops and wide-spread… Read more »

tricked into a life of slavery

Spain | Orphan's Promise

Amy is a young women from Africa. She had always wanted to study and do something meaningful with her life but she came from a very por family and was the oldest of several younger sisters and brothers.

a promise to change Hai’s life

Hai-featured

Hai knows hunger. He grew up without a father, and his mother struggled to support her four children. Hai remembers the family being evicted from their single room apartment for failure to pay rent. For a time, the children slept in the stairwell of a bank because they had nowhere else to go. The children… Read more »

a new family for Ghana’s lost children

Ghana | Orphan's Promise

It’s been nearly nine months since we were on the ground in Ghana, Africa helping to cut the ribbon and pray a blessing over one of our newest partnerships, Project Nyame Nsa’s Village Of Hope.

Vi’s life changed

Vi's-Life-Change-_-Vietnam

Fifteen-year-old, Vi, was born deaf although it was a couple of years before her family knew it.  She was later abandoned by her parents. She hasn’t seen her mother for years. Her father visits once a year at Tet Holiday. Vi grew up unable to communicate with others – living not only in a lonely… Read more »