Sonaji in India
Sonaji is about 5 years old and is very sick. He was abandoned, found in a dump and left at the doorstep of Santvana Home in Pune, India this past February. He was brought by two social workers who left a letter stating his name and that he was HIV positive. There was no other information given regarding his family background, history, surname or date of birth. [continue reading...]

Zhenya and Nadya in Russia
Zhenya, 15, is in the 8th grade and Nadya, 15, is in the 10th grade. Both teens have lost their father and mother either through death or alcoholism. Zhenya enjoys playing sports and singing songs, while Nadya likes to draw and spend time with the younger children. They both have high aspirations after graduation and want to attend the University to be an attorney and doctor. [continue reading...]

Ivan in Russia
Ivan Rohlov, age 16, has neither parents nor a home, but has been living at Nikolsky orphanage since the age of 10 years old. [continue reading...]

Maria Cristina in Guatemala
Maria Cristina Tzoc Chicoj, age 10, attends the Good Shepherd Baptist School in Santiago, Guatemala and is in the 3rd grade. She likes to play with dolls, cars and ride a bike and aspires to be a teacher. Maria has four brothers and her dad sells wood for a living while her mom stays at home. [continue reading...]

Dilmaya in India
Dilmaya is a Nepali girl from the Red Light Area (RLA) of India. Her father died of AIDS and her mother left her with another Nepali brothel madam, who took her to Santvana Home in Pune. [continue reading...]

Polito in Honduras
“He is well known among the garbage sorters as the little boy raised in the trash. His mom is a drug addict and he has been in the garbage every day without fail since he was one year old. Now that he is eight, there has never been a harder worker. The older guys call him “Pollito,” which means “little chicken,” because they think of him as sort of a pet. You can see he takes pride in being allowed to hang around them. I suspect no one gives him attention “at home” – wherever that is. [continue reading...]

Katya in Russia
Katya Gamsaeva, 18 years old, came to the Nikolsky orphanage 3 years ago when both her parents died. She has no other family and no home. Katya is a good, hard-working student and graduates this year. She plans to go to the University and hopes to become a public prosecutor. [continue reading...]

Magdalena in Guatemala
Magdalena Sosof, age 12, is in the 4th grade at The Good Shepherd Baptist School in Santiago, Guatemala and lives in Panabaj, a small village outside of Santiago. She has a brother and a sister, and they live with their parents in a house built with the help of Orphan Outreach. [continue reading...]

Juan in Guatemala
In Guatemala, only five out of ten students who enter primary school
in urban areas complete primary school, as opposed to only two out
of ten in rural areas, such as Panabaj, a small village outside of
Santiago. Poverty is particularly widespread among indigenous communities, where children face multiple disadvantages in addition
to a lack of education, including chronic poverty, high mortality,
poor health, and undernutrition. [continue reading...]

Sheetal in India
Of India’s nearly 400 million under 18, over 70 million are child
laborers, 10 million are bonded laborers (a form of slavery to pay
off family debts), 13 million are homeless, and 2 million are street
children without families. There are 575,000 child prostitutes and a
massive trade of Bangladeshi and Nepali girls sold into prostitution.
AIDS has spread rapidly and some estimate that by 2020 there could
be 200 million people carrying HIV. Sheetal is one little girl who was
saved from a life of prostitution. [continue reading]

Delmi and Maria, students at the
Proverbs 22:6 School in Honduras
Orphan Outreach partners with Proverbs 22:6 School in
Tegucigalpa, Honduras by sponsoring children from marginal
communities, like Nueva Suyapa, to attend this school that is
outside their community. Many of the children on scholarship
come from single mother families that make about $100 a month
or less and live in extreme poverty. Some children don’t even
live with their biological parents, but are instead cared for by a
relative. [continue reading]

Sergey in Russia

Sergey Skameikin, 17, graduated from Nikolsky orphanage
last summer and has the same dreams many children have -
to go to college, graduate, and obtain a good job.
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The Gonzales family in Honduras

Quality education is not easily accessible to many children
in Honduras and the completion rate for education is not very
high. Approximately 43 percent of children enrolled in public
schools complete the primary level. Of all children entering
the first grade, only 30 percent go on to secondary school and
only 8 percent continue to the university. [continue reading]

Anjali in India
Anjali is a sweet, eleven-year-old girl who has known so much
loss in her young life. She was born in Maigaon, Maharashtra in
India and is the second child in a family of four girls. When Anjali
was only five-years-old her father died of AIDS. Less than two
years later, Anjali also lost her two-year-old sister and her mother
to AIDS, leaving her and her remaining two sisters in the care of
their paternal grandmother. [continue reading]