493orphan children to attend school with Scholarships provided by GO!
In our three care initiatives in Asia & Africa
HOFO Opened in 2008.
HOFO is located in Silembe, Zambia, and opened in March 2008.
Attendees of Great Commandment Workshop held at ACK St. Paul’s Cathedral in Embu, Kenya.
We have served with FLC since 2019 to provide orphan children with GO! Scholarships and food aid.
To provide loving support for orphaned children, fostering a greater capacity for physical, spiritual, and emotional healing and growth, and deploying the local church to do the same.
Today we accomplish this within our four initiatives: Home-Based Care, Education, Nutrition, & Church Mobilization.
Global Orphan Relief enables our funding partners in the movement to efficiently connect directly to the work in the field. We assess the needs, deploy resources, and report back on a monthly basis.
Our field partners do the heavy-lifting by serving the children directly. We typically partner with those already in the field, local nationals, leveraging their expertise to serve children in need.
Since our founding in 2005, our objective has been to aid in building capacity for the orphan child to thrive in their community; first with the House of Faith and House of Hope Orphanages where we host children within a family setting.
Since these early years, we have expanded the methods in which we provision aid to include aiding orphan children to attend school, and by providing food aid to hungry children. In 2022, we added our fourth initiative, Church Mobilization, an effort to mobilize the local Church to care for orphan children in their communities.
Through these efforts, children are experiencing the love of family for the very first time, gaining hope for the future where none existed, and experiencing the Good News. This is a beautiful picture of how God is blessing children through the hands and feet of our field partners, our funding partners, and the GO! Ambassador Network.
With less than 14% of our funding being used for administrative and fundraising costs, means that we are extremely efficient in deploying our resources to the field to the benefit of the children we serve.
We have served thousands of children in DR Congo, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, South Sudan, Uganda, & Zambia since 2005.
Our strategy is to utilize experienced local partners that can effectively serve orphan children that are located within their communities. This allows us to leverage the resources available to maximize our impact. Today we accomplish this work within four initiatives: Home-Based Care, Education, Nutrition, & Church Mobilization.
What we have learned during our time of serving children is that one-size does not fit all. In assessing the needs of children, we have discovered that there are some orphan children that need care in a home, many who need assistance to return to school, and some that lack basic nutrition needed to sustain life. In addition to these physical needs, these children need emotional and spiritual support based on what are often traumatic circumstances.
We currently care for children in this initiative in Kenya, Pakistan, and Zambia. We care for children in a family setting in group homes, and we also provide support for many orphan children via Foster Care. All of these children live within a loving family that provide for their needs.
We have found that while there are opportunities for orphan children to live with extended family, the first thing that is sacrificed based on a lack of financial resources in the home, is education for these children. In cooperation with our field partners, we provide scholarships for orphan children in need so they can attend school in Kenya and Zambia.
In assessing needs of orphan children we discovered that there are many instances where the basic essentials for life are missing or are in short supply. Dietary needs of these vulnerable children can minimize results at school, stunt their physical growth, and can cause long-lasting negative health outcomes. We currently provide nutrition assistance to 1,000’s of orphan children in Ethiopia, Kenya, Pakistan, and South Sudan.
Is our newest initiative launched in February 2022. We are currently working with local area churches to co-host Great Commandment Workshops (GCW) where we bring together subject matter experts to discuss the why and how to serve the poor generally, and orphan children specifically. Together with local ministry leaders we launch a local grassroots effort so serve orphan children in their community. Beyond the financial commitment of the workshops, this effort is indigenous, self-propagating, and self-supporting. We are mobilizing the local church to serve orphan children in their communities to advance the Kingdom through demonstrating the Gospel to others.
Pray with others involved in the movement based on the needs in the field.
Work with the movement to reach out to partners via phone and mail, and/or get involved at our Annual Gala.
Yes, you can join one of our upcoming teams and put your hands to work. Experience firsthand the impact of our work in the field in the places we serve.
Join the movement by funding the work in the field or by assisting with building our capacity here at home. Our funding partners are pivotal in determining how, where, and at what scale we serve children.
