It is estimated there are between 143 million and 210 million orphans worldwide (recent UNICEF report.)
The current population of the United States is just a little over 300 million… to give you an idea of the enormity of the numbers… (The current population of Russia is 141 million)
Every day 5,760 more children become orphans
2,102,400 more children become orphans every year in Africa alone
Every 15 seconds, another child in Africa becomes an AIDS orphan
There are an estimated 14 million AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa (a number higher than the total of every under-eighteen year old in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland combined)
This figure is estimated to reach 18 million orphans in Africa alone by 2010 (only two and a half years away)
8 out of 10 children orphaned by AIDS lives in sub-saharan Africa
Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but…
Each year 14, 505, 000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age sixteen
Each day 38,493 orphans age out
Every 2.2 seconds another orphan ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home
In Russia and the Ukraine, studies have shown that 10% – 15% of these children commit sucide before they reach age eighteen
These studies also show that 60% of the girls become prostitutes and 70% of the boys become hardened criminals
Another Russian study reported that of the 15,000 orphans aging out of state-run institutions every year, 10% committed suicide, 5,000 were unemployed, 6,000 were homeless and 3,000 were in prison within three years…
I just wanted to share these statistics as a reminder… A reminder to pray. A reminder to give. A reminder to advocate. The agonizing reality of these numbers breaks my heart and drives me to my knees. The tears of the children and grief of the parents who can not care for their beloved babies weighs so heavily on my heart at times. In the midst of it, I have to believe that God loves every soul – equally and passionately — and grieves for each situation individually more than my finite mind can understand.
In a perfect world, there would be no need for adoption. Biological families would stay together. Children would be raised by loving parents or grandparents and remain in their homeland, surrounded by their culture and connected to their roots tangibly. Obviously, these statistics illustrate that we do not live in a perfect world. Adoption is not the answer for solving the underlying issues of poverty and disease and famine and war. It won’t stop the cycle of more children becoming orphans. It is a life-line thrown out to a precious few… it rescues a small percentage from the going over the falls. The tough question as we see the overwhelming need is how do we bring solutions to the roots of the issues?… how do we make a difference not just in one child’s life through adoption, but in the lives of the thousands left behind… and ultimately how do we stop the cycles that turn innocent children into orphans?
It can be difficult to allow ourselves to really think about these statistics and what they represent. Its easy to respond numbly and see the statistics in terms of thousands or millions… but when we allow ourselves to become personally involved and risk the heart-grief that follows awareness, they become more than mere statistics… they become real children with real hearts that ache for their parents and real bodies that hunger for care. Every single child that makes up the thousands or millions is a precious child, just like my Joanna… just like my Henry. I pray that my own heart will continue to be stirred and my resolve strengthened to speak out for those that have no voice. These precious children need advocates. They need men and women willing to make a difference… willling to stand in the gap and act on their behalf.
May our hearts grow softer and our voices rise louder…
“Defend the cause of the weak and the fatherless; Maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Deliver the weak and needy from the hand of the wicked.” Ps 82:3-4
(Sources: Human Rights Watch: “Abandoned to the State: Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages” November 1998 ; www.hfgf.org/statistics.pdf ; www.unaids.org/epi/2005 ; UNICEF’s Childhood Under Threat: the State of the World’s Children, 2005 ; www.unicef.org/uniteforchildren/ )
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May 2, 2008 at 2:34 pm
lauren
This is unbelieveable.
I am 14 and doing a science project on In Vitro Fertilization.
I wanted to find orphan rates and adotion rates to add to my project. (cons) and I luckily found this site.
This page, proves the saddness of our world. but if you grew up with a family and in a healthy life like I have you dont think about this. I am very thankful for my life, and my family.
May 12, 2008 at 6:56 pm
marcy
this is so sad! i’m 15 and i’m writing a paper on orphan statistics and adoption and everything i’m finding is just really sad. i wish i could help all the orphans…i want to adopt when i’m older. i’m glad you’re writing about orphans and making people aware of them. you’re doing a great job! =) thank you for adopting!
September 4, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Rebekah
Hello, i really need to know what sort of statistics you managed to get as i am also doing an investigation on all of this stuff, please can you get back to me asap on beccy-x-@hotmail.co.uk
May 14, 2008 at 12:21 am
Claudia
Hi!!! i think all of this its really dissapointing, with all the day by day improvements we have ìt`s still surprising that all of this kids are out in the streets unprotected. i was doing research for a persuasive speech and i chose adoption since i`ve being considering it for myself for the past few years. i now i`m only twenty and i don`t now much about life but I firmly believe there`s already too many kids in the world that need love and support for us to be bringing more and more kids to life. I consider adoptions as my main option when the time to have my own family come. thanks a lot for providing these Unicef statistics!!
July 22, 2008 at 7:00 pm
ammar
Wow, May Allah make it easy for all those distressed children out there! I needed this because i need this for a project in which we get schools involved to sponsor orphans and help the needy. And i’m only 14!! This is sad, but just what i needed, the info that is!
July 29, 2008 at 12:34 pm
cabsplace
This is a great site and this page is especially informative. Might I suggest that you add a page to your blog that gives people direction should they feel led to consider adoption. I’ve always wanted to adopt a child from Africa, since I was about 25, but it never materialized. Now that I am in my mid-40’s and a single mom, I’d still like to do it, but, really now, what are the odds? In any event, there are others who might like the information and resources you’ve done the work to get.
Thanks for sharing your story.
Cat
August 1, 2008 at 9:51 pm
nzbible_reader
I started a blog about our story to adopt from africa in 2009.
i stole some of your stats!
August 30, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Karissa
Hi,
I was just wondering where you got these statistics (what site) and how recent it is? I am writing a speech on orphans and I need to cite where I get all of my info. Thanks!
~Karissa
September 14, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Carole
Hello. My husband and I are in the process of adopting domestically. This Saturday night we’re hosting a barn dance (square dancing) as a fundraiser for the adoption and I’ve been looking “everywhere” on the web to find stats on adoption. That’s how I arrived here. Thanks! It’s amazing how much information is on google and yet not much at all comes up when searching for the stats on adoption and orphans (and definitely not when I type in black babies vs. white babies availability – but that’s a whole ‘nother topic!).
Thanks again. It’s encouraging to see another family that’s already doing the adoption thing. 🙂
October 7, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Samantha
Wow, this is painful to read. I’m 16 and, just like a few of the other comments have stated, I’m doing a research project on Orphans. Now, I already know a lot of the horrors of what being an orphan entitles (by research-not first-hand) but this brings a better visual to how much pain and suffering children all over the world are feeling.
Thank you for posting this.
November 26, 2008 at 8:00 pm
ramon
Can anyone tell me how many orphans are in the US and how many kids become orphans each day in the US?
November 26, 2008 at 8:01 pm
ramon
And why?
January 1, 2009 at 6:40 pm
luke
May 2, 2008 at 2:34 pm
This is unbelieveable.
I am 14 and doing a science project on In Vitro Fertilization.
I wanted to find orphan rates and adotion rates to add to my project. (cons) and I luckily found this site.
This page, proves the saddness of our world. but if you grew up with a family and in a healthy life like I have you dont think about this. I am very thankful for my life, and my family
January 10, 2009 at 8:39 am
tach
I cant believe this
i am doing an oral expo for my spanish AS and decided adoption as my topic because i hate to think there are so many children without parents and couples who want children but cant have them. But why? why do governments make it so hard to adopt. My parents have only 2 children because the other 3 died. My mom wanted to adopt but they ask you to be a millionaire and I know that maybe if i had thos little brothers tha¡ey wouldn’t be super rich but i knoe they would be better tyhan in an institution alone. They would have food and school ajnd toys but specially tons of love. So why? why do they do that? orphans are expensive to governments they dont care about them so why dont they give them to us why¿ what has our society become? at least there are ppl like you who still care and it is great we did this research because there is not enough concious about these at least i had no idea about this numbers. So I decide to be a sociologist and hgope to make a diff for a few of them and hope others will follow my steps and prefer to make a change than to become a millionaire.
thanks foe this without you i would still be onconcious
god bless ya all
January 30, 2009 at 11:20 am
Jenna
I too, feel the burden that you feel. I have been thinking about this exact same thing. Have you read Fields of the Fatherless by Tom Davis. I came across that book and it has just opened my eyes to another world that perhaps, I never understood. Learning the statistics and the reality of this situation has been heartbreaking for me, but as you said, something that I cannot ignore.
February 5, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Tyler Gilbert
Unfortante…. but thank you for finding this information… i am doing a project in sh school and this will help alot…. i wish all of these kids better lives
February 20, 2009 at 12:49 pm
ashley
hello; stumbled across this site – nice to have so many stats in one place. it’s been mentioned already but it’s pretty challenging to get definite #’s on this problem.
here’s a website i came across just now & thought it was helpful (for the purposes of clarification)
http://www.unicef.org/media/media_44928.html
God bless,
ashley
March 10, 2009 at 11:11 am
Chelsea
Hi! I loved your post and your obvious anguish over the millions of orphans all over the world…
I’m writing an article about adoption for a Christian publication, and I wondered where you found these statistics. I’d love to use some of them, but I’ll need more concrete documentation.
Thanks!!
April 29, 2009 at 8:40 am
Rebecca Wooten
Wow! I’m 16 and writing a persuasive speech on why couples should adopt rather than use invitro fertilization. Thanks for publishing these statistics. I really hope people see the importance of saving children that have already been born, even if they are not our own children.
May 3, 2009 at 8:29 am
Heather Banks
I am a 20 year college student from Kentucky. I found this site while researching adoption for my persuasive speech. This site made me realize just how lucky I am. I had no idea what I was getting into when I bean this speech but it truly has touched my heart in a way very unexpected. I was wondering if you could tell me the age that you have to be before you can adopt.
May 26, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Kristen
this is crazy! I am doing a paper on orphanages. I went to one in Africa just a month ago and it broke my heart. It is defiantly something that people need to know about more.
June 21, 2009 at 6:30 am
Lujimar
i am 14 years old and writing a persuasive speech on helping orphans
thanks to this site.. i already have ideas about what im going to put as an introduction for my speech..
i hope this could help others.
July 23, 2009 at 10:40 am
charlotte
we have the same passion. I am terribly concerned about orphans and what happens to them. I am planning by Gods grace to adopt from India and Russia. My best friend Abha looks after 14 children in a safehouse in India. t. She did all the hard work of rounding them up and she looks after them every day. I don’t get to be there to help but I try to send all the help I can. I think all of us need to start opening homes for these children. We need to find them and bring them home and if we can’t do that we need to send the money so someone else can do it. Thank you for giving these statistics. I hope you don’t mind I included them on my website and linked them back to you. May God bless you! C
August 26, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Doug Riggle
Thank you for your efforts! I was an orphan (but adopted later) and I adopted my own son… three years ago I founded Orphan World Relief (http://www.OrphanWorldRelief.org) to try and make a difference.
Thank you for making a difference!
March 18, 2011 at 10:23 am
Anya Clutter
That is amazing! I’m glad you had a home, and even more glad that you have adopted your very own 🙂
I am starting my very own orphan project
September 2, 2009 at 4:09 am
robert grindley
Hi, I am missionary in botswana and currently building a center for orphans. Also doors are opening in zimbabwe to do the same. Thank you for caring and sounding the alarm. I wish everyone could take a few minutes to consider the suffering going on in these kids lives. Maybe they would do something like you have. Again thank you. I will be using a couple of your stats with my report to zimbabwe government for land for the orphan center. If all goes through know you have been part of the answer in zim.
love in christ, rob & mary grindley
October 9, 2009 at 9:52 am
Jane H Gravis
Hi,
Thank you so much for your heart for the orphans of the world. I am the founder of an orphanage home in Kenya, Africa. I was doing a search to see if the statistics had gone up in the last couple of years. I love all your statistics and will use them on my web site to help people be aware of the growing epidemic. Visit our site: http://www.IntoAbbasArms.org
In His Name—- Jane
October 12, 2009 at 2:10 pm
W
Hi.. i was wondering if these statistics are world wide or only in Africa and the states..! please reply cuz im working on a documentary about this from Jordan..
lots of thanks,
W
October 28, 2009 at 7:11 am
V. Bedford
Wow these statistics are crazy. I adore people who adopt. 🙂
Where did you find these statistics at because I want to do more research?
February 7, 2011 at 9:49 am
Lauren
world wide
October 13, 2009 at 7:51 am
Ash
As a South African, I can say that these statistics are more real that just numbers can portray. Its crazy that so many kids grow up without a family to call their own. But in my own journey with NGO’s and my church, an even bigger issue (at least in South Africa) is not orphans (who need adoption) but kids whose parents are still alive, but are incapable of looking after them, for various different reasons. Often these kids can’t be adopted, because their parents won’t sign over their parental rights, and people aren’t willing to foster as they may have to give the child back one day (though this is actually rarer than one may think, and many foster kids are placed with their families until their 18th birthdays, and then are free to make their own choices). For those of you overseas (in the states or anywhere else) look into giving to organisations that deal with this type of issue…
having said that. I’m HUGE into the idea of adoption, and when I’m married I definitely plan on adopting (and in South Africa it will almost always end up being an interracial adoption). So I think its amazing what you’ve done. All the best for the future!
February 18, 2010 at 5:31 pm
Felyvaz
When I found this statistics about the reality of orphans children in the world it makes me really very chocked and very sad because I knew that orphans children exists but I don’t know how many, I was thinking it just in the poor country but contrary it exists all over the world. I will pray for them and for the wealth countries and the rich people so that they can share their well -being to support these orphans to pursue their education which can help them to live their live peacefully and realized that God loves them so much. Many of our Saints they also experienced the these situations but they put their trust in God who take care of us in every time.
FelyVaz
February 18, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Felyvaz
When I found this statistics about the reality of orphans children in the world it makes me really very chocked and very sad because I knew that orphans children exists but I don’t know how many, I was thinking it just in the poor country but contrary it exists all over the world. I will pray for them and for the wealth countries and the rich people so that they can share their well -being to support these orphans to pursue their education which can help them to live their live peacefully and realized that God loves them so much. Many of our Saints they also experienced the same situations but they put their trust in God who take care of us in every time.
FelyVaz
December 3, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Moses Musinguzi
Thank u for the good work you people are doing to help the world,i came accross this website as i was suffing on net,having seen such information,i realised that actually im one of the orphans but i need also to work hard to see that fellow young ones dont live a life i was through.All i need is work up with such organisations especially those in Uganda my home place.Thank you very much and may God bless the work you are doing.
December 18, 2009 at 10:16 am
Fade to Black
How current are these statistics? They are appalling!
Thank you.
December 30, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Ande Underwood
Amber,
I enjoyed reading your blog. Check out our website and perhaps become part of our new community.
For the Unadopted,
Ande Underwood
January 18, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Charles Davidson
this site is helping my organization enormously…thanks
forgottensong.org
January 25, 2010 at 12:11 am
Tanishka
wow..all these kids parentless is just heartbreaking when the people that have it all complain about the minor things when there’s children that dont even have a family to call their own..im stumbled into this web site im writing on homosexuals adopting my final..i would like to help one day help the cause make a change in a childs life
March 3, 2010 at 4:45 pm
Bill
I was born 3 months premature and weighed 2 pounds 2 ounces along with being born with a club foot. I am adopted from Belarus. I live with a loving family who have given me the chance to make something of myself in life. I am a senior in high school now. I was a member of the honor role and high honor role multiple times throughout high school. I was invited to be a part of a state run youth leadership program for the past three years. I mentor a boy in my town who was adopted from Russia, and our family’s are very close. I was accepted to all 7 colleges I applied to and I am looking to play soccer at the collegiate level as well.( not bad for a kid with a club foot). I am writing this because I want people to see that adopted children can succeed and do well. Adoption can change not just the child’s life, but the entire family’s, maybe even a communities and more. If you have doubts that adopted children aren’t as good or real as biological children get that out of your head, because the fact is that no matter what child you adopt or have, they will all have their strengths and weaknesses. treating them differently because they were born into a position which they can’t control just isn’t fair. while I want everyone to feel the way I do about adoption I know that isn’t possible. but for those of you on the fence, know that by adopting a child and giving he/she the love and care he/she needs you have saved that child from all of the statistics above. Thank you for reading this, I hope it has inspired you to adopt.
April 9, 2010 at 9:24 am
Colleen Coombs
Thanks for sharing your heart for the orphans. The stats are helpful and I will be sharing these with our kids at church this Sunday. God is raising up a generation of kids that have a heart for the broken and hurting – the orphans. Who better to minister to them.
Blessings to you and increase in the ministry to the orphaned.
June 8, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Steve Wozny
Hi,
Your website is excellent and your compassion is truly admirable.
I will be travelling to Jinja, Uganda to a Christian orphanage, Canaan Children’s Home, and have the privilege to serve and teach there for two weeks. I have found your statistics to be echoed in other documents and websites and believe they are accurate. One question I have concerns the amount of orphans worldwide (a truly staggering number). Do you have any information on how UNICEF defines “orphan”?
Thanks,
Steve Wozny
June 12, 2010 at 2:57 am
Merab Gamsakhurdia
Dear madam/Sir,
During the years I was working on the issue of as will solve a problem of orphans. The purpose of my research of last years was the ways of the assistance achievement for those who do feel aloof from parent’s assistance. My research has shown that, Orphans our children because, at them do not have parents. Avoidance of the orphan starvation, to give them qualified medical care, education and sweet home for them; it is a main objective of our organization. I am confident, it’s vital to lend a helping hand to a human-being initially, if he is in trouble and do the utmost to help him to become independent earn for his life without others aid. My research has shown that many people on the earth do have the desire to support others, but sometimes don’t know in what way to do it. Our Non-Governmental Organization “Save The Future Generation” works on above-mentioned issue. It helps people to discover each other, to exchange with experience and learn from each other how to overcome the difficulties problem for orphans. Please visit our site http://www.sfge.org on our site, you can find a lot of helpful information.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Best Regards
Mr. Merab Gamsakhurdia
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June 30, 2010 at 9:52 am
Mike Nelson
Great blog entry! Those statistics are so sad. I liked you bit about getting at the “root” of the problem. This is one of the main reasons I’m at the midst of a solo benefit ride for orphans (i.e. the Ride for Orphans, http://ridefororphans.org). I was convicted by God’s word to do something to help others and I wasn’t quite sure where or for what cause to serve. And then last year and my heart was opened to ophan needs when I heard of the statistic that many orphans (~60-70%)”age out” of the system and become homeless or end up in prison. I always feel compelled to help the homeless but don’t know how and never really knew how linked the problem was to those being fatherless as a child. So I was then prompted to go to the “root” of the problem and help do my part by helping orphans. Anyhow, I’m ramblin’ on but appreciate your blog entry and wanted to comment. God Bless – Mike
July 13, 2010 at 1:07 am
Shahida
Dear Anyone,
Kindly can any one let me know the recent Orphans statistics in Pakistan?
I shall be very grateful,
Regards,
Shahida Butt
August 3, 2010 at 8:34 am
Jonathan Allen Barnes
Wow, i truly appreciate the love and care from such wonderful who care for living things….. I hope i will be the lucky one to be adopted from Ghana Africa…… Am just 17 and have lots my parent….. I hope to join a new family. 😀
September 22, 2010 at 6:01 pm
Sarahlee
Hello,
Since I was younger I have always had a heart for the needy, infact in the Bible it talks about being there for the widowed and the orphaned. My mother was an orphan, so I have always been aware of the destruction abandonment causes in children, and the struggles orphaned children must over come, like my mother has overcame. I am now in college and for My communications class I have to write an “Informative” speech. Orphans have always made such a huge impact on my life. I actually want to one day open up a foundation and a home atmosphere orphanage, where children in this situation, can either be adopted out or even if they age-out of the facility, always have a place to call home. Lord willing. In saying all of that, i thought it would be something worth speaking about, (orphan awareness) even in the United States alone, so Thank you for writing about this in an effort to raise awareness. I hope one day I can be apart of making the difference.
Thank you,
Sarah
November 17, 2010 at 10:49 am
S
These statistics are not accurate nor appropriately cited – the HFGF site, where I’m assuming the “aging out” stats came from (which fails to cite), are way off – UNICEF’s estimate of ALL orphaned youth throughout the world, regardless of their location (orphanage, kinship care, child-headed households, etc.) was 143 million at the time this blog was published – it is very unlikely that UNICEF would also suggest that 140 million are aging out of orphanage care every year (or 38,493 a day) – google UNICEF’s Children on the Brink, 2004. Just keep this in mind if you’re citing this for projects; it’s a shame so many organizations have based websites on these fabricated numbers without investigating their accuracy beyond a blog.
November 30, 2010 at 11:57 am
Madi
Hi! I am writing a persuasive essay about the call God has placed in each of our lives to support orphans. Your website helped me so much!!! Your story is such a blessing! :)) Thanks so much! ❤
January 18, 2011 at 6:04 pm
hope
would like to tell you a little bit of “hope Orphanage Home”
Starting Year:
We are children’s orphanage and home in NIGERIA. My name is Officer.Hope Joseph and I am also a church pastor. This orphanage was started with 5 children. The Lord has been so good upon this ministry and He has provided us a property for this ministry.
Now, there are 1500 children and 3 helpers at this orphanage. The children are from different ethnic groups. Some of the orphans are from different religions and some of them are christian background. There are many children to be reached for Christ across the country. Many children do not have a place to stay, clothes to put on or food to eat and live on the street, asking for help. Their cry goes up to heaven and the Lord hears them.
We need your support.
I want you to take responsibility for this home and you can do fund raising for this orphanage. The orphanage is not so far to large streets.
Condition:
The children who do not come to an orphanage develop bad habits as they are living in the street. Some christian children become poor, because they do not have place to stay, no clothes, no food to eat and live on the street, can not go to School.
I find the children that do not have parents and invite them to come to our home. The children parents are death because of disease, sometimes father die and mother re-marriage again and she left her children, some die because of Nargis Cyclone. There are many orphans in Nigeria.
We do not have any contact or support from abroad. We survive ourselves fund raise from some churches within our country. As you know our country is not so good in economy and we did not get enough for children. We are sometime facing many difficulties.
Expenditure:
We spend for each child:
1. for food, clothes, education
2. staff 100×2
3. House rent
Plan:
1. To accept at least 2000 orphans
2. To build dormitories for boys and girls
3. To build dinning, chapel and study room
4. To build a dormitory for widows
Vision:
The vision of this ministry is to reach the crying children and bring them to Christ, provide them food and education, help them to grow spiritually, physically, intellectually and train them to become witnesses of Jesus Christ.
Invitation:
You all are invited and welcome to help finance this orphanage and pray for the many crying children on the streets. So that they and their family will be reached for Christ. We invite you to be part of the ministry both prayerfully and financially. Please pray with us.
Word of thank:
On behalf of the orphanage, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to our beloved friends whose help and pray for this ministry. I would also like to say word of thank to our friends who give me the best advice and pray for us.
I would appreciate your help so feel welcome. Please let me know what time do you want to HELP us you can share what God give you talent for His ministry and what kind of ministry do you want to share ( for example. Bible training, health education training etc.). In Nigeria the quest to survive is very hard so, please help us out.
May God bless all of you abundantly.
Please help us.
visit us via email:hopeoffanagehome@gmail.com
Sincerely in Christ
OFFICER. HOPE JOSEPHS.
January 24, 2011 at 11:40 am
KobinaTakyi
I’am sort of words as to the there Stats,I was actually looking for ways by which I could cater for an orphan even though I’m a student but it has always being my dream to love and cater for the fatherless as there. Please offer me some web sites of catering for the orphan thanks also for the deep insight.Keep it up.
January 29, 2011 at 9:17 am
raghunath rajan
hi,
we friends ve just started as a group to help the orphans and most wantedly to create an awareness among people to help the orphans.. these datas are verymuch usefull for us to deliver.. and on behalf of our group i appretiate ur pain in collecting these datas.. if some one in tamil nadu sees this please do us a favour.. just let us know some orphanages that are near by ur area.. send the address to this mail id raghunath96@gmail.com..
February 3, 2011 at 2:14 pm
S☼
I think that it is sad that all these poor kids are in an orphanage. The government says that they are helping by putting these kids in this horrible enviorment, but really all they are doing is making there life harder then it should be. More people should be aware of these outstanding numbers of child orphans.
February 7, 2011 at 9:45 am
Lauren
Hi me and my school are trying to make a PSA (Public Service Announcement) about how people should adopt older orphans was trying to figure out the age most orphans stop getting adopted
February 23, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Kristin
Thank you for posting this so I would stumble across it.
I have been reading a lot about issues related to couples who want to adopt a child but due to being gay, single, or because of racial reasons aren’t allowed to or are having an extremely hard time.
To know that so many people are suffering especially the kids when there are SO many people wanting a child to love but someone in charge deems them unworthy is just appalling.
March 18, 2011 at 10:21 am
Anya Clutter
Hi I am 16 years old, and I am starting my very own orphan project, and this information was VERY helpful! Thank you so much. So sad, but Luckily God is watching over them.
we continue to keep them in our prayers. God Bless.
April 4, 2011 at 10:07 pm
Yajaira Ruperto
and this has been going on for milennias and nothing has been done to fix this issue and it is getting worse because nobody thinks about this because they are to busy with their own life. I wish I could have my own country/island and take all the orphans of the world and better their life. Show them to survive without help, show them to grow their own food. They would be on orphan island.
May 1, 2011 at 3:03 pm
Kaytee
Thank you so much for these stats. I am writing a report on orphans so these really help 🙂 and I also needed to find some stats to put on my board for the project that is due one the 11th **procrastinator** You have no idea how happy I was to find this.