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You can share in the holy task of ensuring that every child grows up in a safe, stable and nurturing permanent family, and reaches their God-given potential. How can you best equip yourself to join the movement? Finding the right path for you begins with matching your role with your vision. Take a short quiz at https://wworoadmap.org/ and the result will be a set of recommended resources you can use to get started down your personalized path of the roadmap, along with full access to the WWO Roadmap booklet in PDF form.

February 24th changed everything. The missiles rained down on their city like hell from the heavens, and they hid in a kindergarten basement for shelter. One week seemed like an eternity. One week in the dark; one week with 30 children and 60 adults; each person united in a singular goal, to protect those they love, to stay alive.

For the Christian community, every day is a good day to pray for orphaned and vulnerable children. Yet there is one day on the calendar that uniquely reminds us of that invitation – Orphan Sunday, which is being recognized on November 13 this year.

The World Without Orphans global and regional teams and organization partners collaborate to support national teams in developing broadscale collaboration that accelerates long-term positive transformation. It is exciting to see this happening in Albania, where over 30 local church and organization leaders and government employees gathered in Tirana for a ‘Thrive Albania’ event.

“It's the 10th day of this unjust brutal war, and yet it already feels like 10 years. I've lost the sense of time.” These are the words of Tetiana, Director of the NGO Nehemiah, which is a Ukraine Without Orphans member and an organization that has actively been serving orphans and vulnerable children since 1996.