Last summer radical Hindu mobs attacked Indian believers, with the most violence seen in the Kandhamal District of Orissa. Extremists burned people alive, gutted homes, and destroyed whole villages, rendering more than 25,000 people homeless.
Of those 25,000 were countless children who fled into the forest. For more than five days, parents and children cowered in the woods until they mustered the courage to escape—seeking refuge from Christians outside Orissa.
Ranjit Nayak, a Christian and full-time employee of Friends Missionary Prayer Band in India, opened his home and provided shelter to 137 men, women and children in the days immediately following the violence.
As families began to relocate to government-controlled camps, The Suryodaya Charitable Trust Home was established to provide care, shelter and education to children of the families who had been displaced.
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A Way Out: Two Girls Rescured from Red Light District
Called a “runner,” a young girl scurries through the labyrinth of streets, narrow staircases, and dingy rooms to solicit clients for her mother. If it is daytime, she can play in the brothel’s corridors with the rest of the children. If it is nighttime, however, she must lay quietly under the bed while her mother works.
Although graphic—and appalling—this is the reality for thousands of children in the Red Light District of Pune, India. But with the help of Orphan Outreach, two girls—and many others—are finding a way out.
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2008 Year in Review
Last year—during the peak of the world’s economic crisis—283 people were leaving their homes in the US to help orphans around the world.
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Russian Teens Face Living Alone
Right now a 15-year-old teenager is wondering how she will survive on the streets of St. Petersburg alone. Twenty more of her friends, ages 15 to 18, are “aging out” of the orphanage system in Russia without basic life skills and vital resources to survive on their own.
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Orphan Outreach Announces
New Partnership with Florida Ministry
Florida Baptist Children’s Home (FBCH), which has been helping orphans for more than 100 years, is expanding its scope internationally with the help of Orphan Outreach. With 13 locations across the state of Florida, FBCH served 5,100 children and families last year and 35,000 since its inception.
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Wife of Guatemala City Mayor
Teams Up with Orphan Outreach
Patricia Arzú, wife of Guatemala City’s mayor, Alvaro Arzú, has teamed up with Orphan Outreach to provide education to hundreds of homeless children. The children now attending Arzú’s three schools were once uneducated and living on the streets.
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