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Category: Orphan

  • Aligning Our Giving with What Children Need Most

    Aligning Our Giving with What Children Need Most

    3/27/2026 Last week I read the new Barna research commissioned by Faith to Action, and one finding stayed with me: 90% of U.S. Christians agree that children thrive best in families. At the same time, more than one in four Christians, 28%, still report financially supporting an orphanage, children’s home, or residential care program, representing an estimated $4.5…

  • HCW holds information session on transformation

    Day One. 1/28/2018 Back row: Darlene Armendariz and Tina DeBoeser (Ebenezer UMC), Mohamed Nabieu (CRC Director), Kim Nabieu (HCW staff), Karen Hall (Ebenezer UMC), Melody Curtiss (HCW director). Seated in front: Dr. Cynthia Horner (HCW board) and Janie Williams (Ebenezer UMC.) Helping Children Worldwide held an information meeting on the CRC Transformation on Sunday, January…

  • CRC students compete in UMC Njagboima school annual track and field games

    CRC students compete in UMC Njagboima school annual track and field games

    3/31/2017 Nearly 100 of the students enrolled in our programs, including most of the residential students, attend UMC Njagboima, a big school that includes primary through senior secondary grades. This past week, the entire school has been competing in the annual track and field competition, including 100 meter and 200 meter dash, high jump, and…