Matthew Durham, a young missionary from Oklahoma, was convicted in 2015 of raping three girls and molesting a boy at the Upendo Children’s Home. He had volunteered at the Kenyan orphanage from 2012 to ...

CHANGING THE LIVES OF ORPHANS HALFWAY AROUND THE WORLD. WE FIRST SHARE THE STORY OF THE HIGGINS FAMILY. TEN YEARS AGO, THEY ADOPTED TWO BOYS FROM RWANDA. A DECADE LATER, THEIR FAMILY AND MISSION ...

Amid a climbing death toll and widespread panic, the Ebola outbreak continues to ravage West Africa leaving thousands of orphaned children in its wake, an official for the United Nations Children’s Fu ...

South Africa's University of the Witswatersrand launches a project to reduce the number of children orphaned by AIDS. The goals are to increase the survival rate of HIV-infected mothers and to inhibit ...

“I was born in Kenya, My mother was a primary school teacher, my father was a policeman,” Charity Vihenda of Kenya, Africa said. Vihenda, now 26 years-old, recalls her early years in Kenya. At 9 years ...

Utah local Austin Cameron started Footsteps for Africa (FFA) in 2010 after seeing the plight of children when lived in Zimbabwe and Zambia for two years, and while doing anthropological research in ...

(RNS) — In South Africa, a baby boy I will call Themba was placed in our children’s home when he was just 2 years old. His father had died, and his mother, who was blind and HIV-positive, could no ...

Greatness usually arrives veiled in humility. This week, I was privileged to spend many hours with Bishop Mdimi Mhologo who leads the Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika in East Africa. He presides ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Lake County native, who has spent time finding shelter for more than 1,000 orphaned children in Ukraine, is pleading with Northeast Ohio residents for help for those in the ...

(The Conversation) — Rather than protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable children, many of Africa’s orphanages are exploiting them. (The Conversation) — Matthew Durham, a young missionary from ...