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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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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 […]

Discipleship, Family, Family Reunification, Family Strengthening, Village Development Centers

March 15, 2023

The Roles of a Restoring Hope Family

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 […]

Alumni, Family, Family Reunification, Family Strengthening, Stories, Village Development Centers

March 8, 2023

How do we receive reports from South Asia?

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

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