Archive for the 'Tanzania' Category


Help us spread the word! Orphan’s Tear is committed to helping raise more than 1,200 orphaned and abandoned children in third world nations around the globe. Have you wondered what sets us apart from so many other ministries committed to helping these children whom He loves so much? The answer is simple: 100% of every [...]




Alex Martin, an orphan who lives at Mission to Homeless Children in Tanzania, Africa, is always smiling It was still dark outside when 40 sleepy, but excited, children showed up outside our hotel in Morogoro, Tanzania (central East Africa). There were a few yawns, but nobody was complaining about being up so early. All of [...]




Hniang Sung Par, from Canaan Orphanage in Myanmar, is glad to have sponsors from New Mexico Dear Friends, It’s been a while since we’ve updated you on all of the good things being accomplished through the Orphan’s Tear Special Gifts Fund. A lot has been happening over the past few months! Let me give you [...]




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 [...]




“D/O” stands for “daughter of.” Marvee lost both her parents in Pakistan’s 2005 earthquake. Dear Friends, I’m happy to report that everyone who sponsors children in Myanmar, Tanzania and Kenya should have received recent photos of their children over the past five months (if not, please let us know). And we now have in our [...]




There are no video games for the AIDS orphans at the Mission to Homeless Children in Morogoro, Tanzania! But Sofia Thomas and Catherine Chambo spend hours playing a traditional game in Africa with nuts called solo. Dear Friends, During my recent trip to Africa, I was privileged to visit two orphanages and dozens of AIDS [...]




Jesus loves the children of Pakistan and India, like the two orphans above. Dear Friends, We generally try to focus on what is encouraging in our monthly correspondence, because we know that most of us hear enough discouraging news. But I’m afraid that sometimes we mislead our friends into thinking that Orphan’s Tear never suffers [...]





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