- In the world today, there are 143 million children who have lost one or both parents. That is almost one half of the population of the United States.
- Every 14 seconds an Aids death leaves another child orphaned.
- Every year 12 million children become orphans.
- 87.6 million Orphans live in Asia.
- 43.4 million Orphans live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- 12.4 million Orphans live in Latin America and the Caribbean.
- In Ukraine and Russia 10%-15% of children who leave orphanages commit suicide before age 18.
- There are 30,000 waiting children in Canada, through the Foster Care System.
The statistics above were posted on a friend's blog recently. These numbers are staggering and heartbreaking. It is so easy to see these numbers and think of them as only that, but each number is a child, a person, a need. And they matter. These friends are launching an orphan ministry; they are going to do incredible things. And, more and more, I wonder, what is our role in all of this.......
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress ~ James 1:27
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