New Hope Orphanage in Nepal sent us a package with a special Christmas letter from each of the children to their sponsor. (Mail is slow from Nepal, so we just received the package.) If you sponsor a child at New Hope Orphanage we’ll be mailing you a card like the one below from your sponsored [...]

Six-year-old Sita, who lives at Loving Children Orphanage in Nepal Dear Friends, When Sita was only two years old, her mother died of malaria, which is not uncommon in Nepal where she lives. Her father remarried soon after. Tragically, Sita’s step-mother did not want her, and she sent Sita away to live with her grandparents. [...]

Dear Friends, Big news this month! If your sponsored child lives in Myanmar, there is a 99.5% chance that we have a recent photo for you of your child! And if your sponsored child is living in one of the other seven nations where we assist orphanages, there is a fairly good chance that we [...]

Van Par Mawi, at New Eden Orphanage in Myanmar Dear Orphan’s Tear Friends, I’m happy to report that our second team successfully returned from Myanmar three weeks ago, and we were able to take new portraits of every child, sponsored and unsponsored, at the thirty orphanages that we assist there. As I’m writing this, several [...]

Emmanuel Orphanage’s rented house in Yangon, after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma Dear Friends, First, thanks to everyone who has prayed for and/or sent contributions to help with relief from Cyclone Nargis in Burma (Myanmar). We’ve had an outpouring of compassion, and so I’m sending this month’s regular Orphan’s Tear update to everyone on our email list [...]