By Mary Exactly nine years ago, I met Restoring Hope children for the first time. I had the pure joy of serving onsite with Restoring Hope, and all these years later, I can still see the smile of these children and remember the sounds of their laughter so clearly. My team helped facilitate several summer […]
Challenges On The Ground in Orphan and Vulnerable Children Care: The above photo shows a few of the “challenges by the numbers”: 3 – Number of pastors lost to Covid or accidents in the past three years. 14 – Number of our current students choosing vocational training instead of a traditional college degree, which after […]
Mahini is 24 and just at the cusp of her vocational career as she applies to work for a local private company as a software engineer! Her words from the recent report received showed her progress and future dreams for herself: A student of engineering with a servant heart to give back to others, meet […]
If you’re part of a family, and we know you are or have been at some time, you understand the different roles family members play. If you have experienced orphanhood or a family tragedy in some way, as 700 children and families of Restoring Hope have, what does that mean for the roles of the family? The village church […]
Have you ever wondered how we keep up with the 700 children and families in our network of care? Now that there have been reunifications to biological families, there’s a lot more digging for information and reports on the status of the children and their caregivers. Now decentralized geographically, our indigenous South Asian team on […]
Have you heard? We are helping to strengthen families in South Asia. We have had many opportunities to reach vulnerable children and their families through local village churches. Now 6 churches used their space, to open services to the wider public. We hope more of the previously used children’s home, will have the same transformation […]
When Restoring Hope was full of close to 100 cute, little kids, ages 5 – 12, starting 10 years ago, many early supporters were asked to help fund projects like painting the churches providing care to these children, or asked to provide some school uniforms and Christmas gifts. The tradition of new clothes given to the […]
Orphan Sunday Recap Caregivers explained about the vision and future goals for Restoring Hope’s programs for children and families. They spoke about how we are growing and finding success. There’s been feedback that the communities are benefiting from the impact of the work with children and families also. In addition, the child’s life is transforming […]
A Visit to Restoring Hope on the Ground in South Asia My wife and I lived in South Asia working with orphan care startingin 2011. We thought it was a one-two year commitment, but then we fell inlove with these orphaned and vulnerable kids whom we were indirectlyserving through local leaders and staff. For the […]
The college students are all grown up! Taller is the first and most noticeable change. When we take a deeper look at the past, we can see the drastic changes today. Nearly 15 years ago as an organization bringing up children in safe homes with pastors, today we reunified 550 children to live with biological […]