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You Can Play a Role in Attaining a World Without Orphans
Everything we do together multiplies, so with your participation, millions of children can grow up in safe and loving families and know their identity with a loving Heavenly Father.
We are a collaborative effort of churches, organizations, families, advocates and practitioners. Let’s not just dream about, but actively pursue a world where every child will grow up in a safe and loving family, where families will be strong, and where the church will be truly engaged.
We would love to connect you with a learning community of leaders who are partnering to change the situation in your own nation.
Who is the Orphan?
An estimated 5.4 million children are social orphans who have living parents, but live outside of family care, typically in orphanages or on the street. More than 150 million children live with orphan status, having had one or both parents die. 1 billion children have an orphan spirit, having experienced abuse, neglect, or exploitation, and feel alone, worthless with no sense of purpose and little hope. War, disease, natural disasters, and other crises increasingly threaten children and families.
Why the Church?
The Bible calls us to defend and care for orphans, reflecting God’s compassion and love for the fatherless (James 1:27, Isaiah 1:17). Research shows that children best develop and thrive in safe, stable, and nurturing families, with the greatest opportunity to reach their full God given potential.The Church is both global and local. It’s perfectly placed to engage with many other partners in supporting and strengthening families, so that orphaned and vulnerable children thrive.When local leaders like you work together to solve the orphan crisis, your contribution multiplies to impact thousands of vulnerable children and families.
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The WWO Roadmap can serve as your helpful guide for conversations, learning, and implementation in your church, city, and nation.
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Connect and Engage - Use your gifts, skills, experience, and connections to be a part of the growing WWO community!
Build skills through learning communities, training, and mentoring in:
- Collaborating to equip the Church across society
- Intervening to assist children in need of family care
- Preventing abuse and neglect as key drivers of orphanhood, and strengthening safe and loving families
- Living refreshed to promote resilience and protect from burn-out
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8 Ways to Impact an Orphaned and Vulnerable Child
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