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Caring for orphaned and vulnerable children through family-based living environments, discipleship and education, empowering future leaders to build healthy communities.

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Last year Restoring Hope received $3,500 and the year before was $5,000 (!) from the Berns Team! This year’s Commission Giveaway will go directly to Restoring Hope college student sponsorships. We so value our partnership with Jason and Laura Berns and we so value you and your belief in  Restoring Hope children and families. Thank you for your very direct and immediate help today […]

Education, Fundraising

October 3, 2022

The Berns Family Foundation Will Be Giving Away Up to $100,000!

Our vision at Restoring Hope is “Holistic restoration of South Asia’s orphaned and vulnerable children for lives of dignity, purpose and transformation of their communities.” Holistic restoration includes the physical, social, educational and spiritual healing, growth and development of children who have faced tragedy in their young lives. Our aim is that all 700 of these children, youth […]

Discipleship, Family Reunification, Stories, Summer Celebrations

August 29, 2022

Summer Celebrations – Drawing Families into the Local Church

We hope you can re-share Restoring Hope’s stories of impact! Here are the blog post links to the stories of Saramma*, Thampan*, and Khajal*. These treasured students have faced some of the hardest circumstances as young children, and now they have reconnected with biological family as they strive to become college graduates! These stories are […]

Education, Fundraising, Sports Day, Stories, Uncategorized

August 24, 2022

Finding a Passion for Stories

Step 1: Create your personal fundraising page by visiting the campaign page to get started “It was easy to create a page and I am excited to share the story of Khajal* with my supporters!” Step 2: Decide your event location, time, other day-of details needed, and create directions on how to get your registrants […]

Sports Day

August 15, 2022

5 Steps to Plan Your Event in Your City on Sports Day!

A LIFE IMPACT STORY FOR SPORTS DAY ON SEPTEMBER 10TH Khajal* loves reading books, but she came from a family of field laborers who had not been educated past 5th grade. When her father died, she and her mother were left unprotected and unprovided for. Her ambition to become a teacher and break through family […]

Discipleship, Education, Family, Family Reunification, In the Field

August 10, 2022

Student Story: Khajal* on Sports Day

A LIFE IMPACT STORY FOR SPORTS DAY ON SEPTEMBER 10TH Thampan’s* parents were both field laborers and sadly, his father took his own life, which left the family in a hard position to make ends meet. His mother left him to be raised by his grandmother and then she remarried another man (it’s stigmatized to […]

Discipleship, Education, Family, Family Reunification, In the Field, Stories

August 10, 2022

College Student: Thampan’s* Story

A LIFE IMPACT STORY FOR SPORT’S DAY ON SEPTEMBER 10TH Saramma* has a younger brother and when her father suddenly died from a heart attack, the family was left in crisis. Both her parents were laborers who worked in the fields and this meant the responsibility to look after her younger brother fell on Saramma. […]

Discipleship, Education, Family, Family Reunification, In the Field, Stories

August 9, 2022

Advocate for Saramma* on Sports Day

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