When Orphan’s Tear began in 2005 with a handful of Christian orphanages in Myanmar, we could hardly imagine that, 7 years later, roughly 1,000 children, in 8 nations, would be sponsored by caring folks in the US, UK, Switzerland, South Africa, Singapore, Canada, Australia, and more than a dozen other countries. Monthly sponsorship then was [...]

One of the most common questions I get asked comes after people receive a letter stating their child has left the orphanage and their sponsorship has transferred to another child. What happened to my child? they want to know, quite understandably! Since the child is an orphan, we assume, wouldn’t they stay at the orphanage [...]

Though poor, this family decided to raise their children rather than put them into an orphanage. God gives children to families. His plan wasn’t for children to be put into orphanages or institutions. In Myanmar, the devil has made it culturally acceptable for parents to disown their children and put them into orphanages if they [...]