According to UNICEF, there are currently over 143 million orphans worldwide. To put that into context, if Orphans were a country they would be larger than Russia in population, equivalent to almost half of the population of the United States. The numbers are staggering:

Every 5.2 seconds around the world, a child dies. That’s 16,615 children today alone, over 6 million this year!!! Every 2.2 seconds a child ages out of the orphanage or foster care system. In some countries up to 80% become homeless, and many resorting to prostitution for survival. Even in some portions of America, over 60% of the kids who age out of the system become homeless.

At IHL we believe that widows and orphan care is a calling for everyone.

Please get involved in some way to help kids

Two organizations that IHL is currently involved with are the following:

Warm Blankets – www.warmblankets.org - Warm Blankets Orphan Care is a non-profit Christian mission, dedicated to the rescue of orphans and widows through third world church planting and orphanage outreach.

Family Legacies – www.familylegacies.us – Family Legacies provides no interest adoption loans and grants to prospective parents who do not have the funds to pay for the total cost of the adoption.