Love and Mercy Shelter now has new mosquito nets! Love and Mercy Shelter was needing new mosquito nets to replace their old ones with big holes. They were no longer able to keep malaria-infected mosquitoes from reaching the children beneath them. In response to our recent email to Orphan’s Tear friends explaining the need, some [...]

Thang Hli Pai with a beaming smile. Thang Hli Pai doesn’t remember what her parents look like. Her mother died giving birth to her. Her father died by snakebite before her first birthday. She was found by a missionary, who cradled baby Thang all the way to Bethel Orphanage in Kalaymyo. That was 17 years [...]

Obed of New Heritage Orphanage shows off his catch…and his smile! I’ve never had much interest in fishing, but at orphanages like New Heritage in Myanmar, having a pond for raising fish is a great blessing. Adding fish to their diets improves the children’s health, and selling the rest in the market helps the orphanage [...]

This is all that was left of their home after the government ordered it to be demolished. Over the past several years, Orphan’s Tear has helped over 30 orphanages in Burma. One of them, Christ’s Home for the Needy, we had never been allowed to visit. Located in the remote city of Hakha in Chin, [...]

Sui Par weaving beautiful fabric to become self-supported. Sui Par’s father died when she was a little girl. Her mother is blind, and unable to care for her daughter. Completely destitute, they had nowhere to turn except to the Handicapped Care Center in Kalaymyo, Myanmar. Although neither handicapped nor completely orphaned, the director had compassion [...]

Thu Zar Win’s first ten years of life have been difficult. Her father died of AIDS in 2005, followed by her mother in 2006. Then she and her younger sister Cherry Win were taken to Love Children’s Home by their neighbors. To make matters worse, Win had vision problems due to a muscle defect in [...]

Zam Siam Dim, Phun Za Sang, and Van Bawi Zing with Grace Orphanage’s new baby ducks. Most Orphan’s Tear-supported orphanages also raise animals. The sounds of quacking, oinking, and clucking are often heard among children’s laughter, but also an occasional splashing, as some orphanages even raise fish. The animals not only provide income and food [...]

Love and Mercy Shelter bringing in their new electric rice cooker! Coupons are a nice way to save money in the US, but they don’t exist in Myanmar—at least not yet. In the meantime, our orphanages have to find creative ways to save money. Several of our orphanage directors in Myanmar wrote to me requesting [...]

“Well” done! Happy children at Life Concern Orphanage’s new well—one that will last them for a long time. The idea of bathing in murky water makes me uncomfortable. The first thing I’d feel squeamish about is wondering what creepy things might be swimming around in there. Then I’d question whether or not showering in such [...]

A great blessing: the children of Faith Orphanage bringing in newly-harvested rice from their own rice field. In the past few years, the price of rice has skyrocketed in Myanmar. To minimize the impact, we’ve helped most of our orphanages in Myanmar purchase their own rice paddies through gifts to the Rice Fields for Orphanages [...]