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Our mission is simple, to provide loving support for orphans fostering a greater capacity for physical, spiritual, and emotional healing and growth.  

This begs the question; what or who is an orphan child?  One definition would be, “a child who has lost both parents through death, or less commonly, one parent.”  According to UNICEF, they and their global partners define an orphan as a child under 18 years of age who has lost one or both parents to any cause of death. … This definition contrasts with concepts of orphan in many industrialized countries, where a child must have lost both parents to qualify as an orphan.

While our target beneficiary is the orphaned child, we do not have a rigid definition and often consider children who might be an ‘orphan’ a bit more broadly.  For years we defined an orphaned child as any child that lacks parental guidance and support.  Consider the following: what if a child is abandoned, or somehow separated from their parents?  In some cases, there are children that have both biological parents living, but no support is available, or their location is unknown.

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Our initiatives that support children in need includes a vague criterion by which to determine who should be eligible for assistance.  Primary determination is left to our field partners, with a clearly stated priority to serve orphaned children.  Orphanhood is a single tangible indicator of children’s vulnerability. However, multiple individual and household circumstances expose children to economic, social, and health risks.

An operational term “orphans and vulnerable children” (OVC) has been coined to aid program targeting for many NGO’s, and this term includes not only children who are orphaned following parental death, but also children considered vulnerable to shocks that jeopardize their health and well-being, such as the chronic illness of a parent, or other household factors.

You will see the term ‘vulnerable’ and ‘orphaned’ used interchangeably by Global Orphan Relief.  To provide additional clarity for our partners we wanted to outline for you the beneficiaries of our initiatives:  

Based on a recent audit we are in the process of better defining the children in our Nutrition initiative in terms of their status.  As we began this partnership in February 2016, with 300 orphaned children at the time, we believed that we could somehow feed these children without providing any level of nutrition for the vulnerable children.  Of course all of these children are in need, or vulnerable, and with additional children coming to school because they understood that food was available, our field partner in South Sudan, Christ Mission to the World, made the decision to begin feeding all of the children.  We supported this decision, but the beneficiaries of our support stretched beyond the orphan child parameters at the beginning of 2019.  We could not simply stand-by and not feed so many hungry children because they could not be defined as orphaned.

In addition to vulnerable children, many widows are also blessed through our initiatives.  In fact, the care we provide, at whatever level, has a ripple effect through the entire community as we demonstrate God’s love for His people. 

You may send support or other correspondence to Global Orphan Relief, 16352 Prairie Farm Cir, Parker, CO 80134 or you may give also give electronically at Support the Global Orphan Relief Children.   

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 Global Orphan Relief is a Christian relief agency serving Orphans in need and a recognized U.S. public charity, tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3).  All donations are tax deductible to the extent of the law.