By Ola al-Madhoun - Gaza
A human rights organization in Gaza released a report showing a rise in the number of children abandoned in Gaza and warned that the problem of abandoned and illegitimate children holds grave consequences for Palestinian society.
According to statistics issued by the Gaza-based al-Dameer Association for Human Rights, 165 cases of illegitimate children have been reported since 1993, eight of them are in 2008 alone. Rising poverty and unemployment along the social and psychological pressure of living under occupation – and since January an Israeli blockade.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Halloween Trick-or-Treat Project to Help 163,000,000 Orphans
Halloween Kids4Kids Project asks children to help rescue orphans and displaced children around the world
Newbury Park, CA (PRWEB) October 22, 2008 -- Faced with a large and growing list of families trying to adopt children, The Orphan Foundation is asking children across the nation to help out by carrying a coin canister with them on their trick-or-treat rounds. The project is hoping to raise nearly $1,000,000 to help with the foundation's grant programs for adopting families, as well as their service tours to orphanages around the world.
Students can download and print canister wrappers by going to the foundation's website and clicking on the Halloween graphic on their home page, or by going directly to http://www.theorphanfoundation.org/resources/HalloweenCannister.pdf. The wrapper will go around any size can, and includes instructions for mounting and sending in the donations.
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Newbury Park, CA (PRWEB) October 22, 2008 -- Faced with a large and growing list of families trying to adopt children, The Orphan Foundation is asking children across the nation to help out by carrying a coin canister with them on their trick-or-treat rounds. The project is hoping to raise nearly $1,000,000 to help with the foundation's grant programs for adopting families, as well as their service tours to orphanages around the world.
Students can download and print canister wrappers by going to the foundation's website and clicking on the Halloween graphic on their home page, or by going directly to http://www.theorphanfoundation.org/resources/HalloweenCannister.pdf. The wrapper will go around any size can, and includes instructions for mounting and sending in the donations.
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Fighting in Kashmir gives rise to orphanages
By Mian Ridge Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
from the October 22, 2008 edition
Between 60,000 and 100,000 children in this state of 5.5 million people are thought to be orphans – including fatherless children with mothers too poor to care for them.
Srinagar, India - Gazi Abdullah, a gentle, articulate 11-year-old considers himself fortunate. He describes a life filled with friends, games of cricket, and top scores in math.
But it hasn't always been so. Without a trace of self-pity, he tells how his father was killed in crossfire between separatist militants and the Army when he was two years old.
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from the October 22, 2008 edition
Between 60,000 and 100,000 children in this state of 5.5 million people are thought to be orphans – including fatherless children with mothers too poor to care for them.
Srinagar, India - Gazi Abdullah, a gentle, articulate 11-year-old considers himself fortunate. He describes a life filled with friends, games of cricket, and top scores in math.
But it hasn't always been so. Without a trace of self-pity, he tells how his father was killed in crossfire between separatist militants and the Army when he was two years old.
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
GO! Update | Zambia, Africa
I had received this update earlier this month from our team in Zambia, and thought you might enjoy.
Teaching from the small vestibule in Chingola. 
In addition to the school, Global Orphan Relief has agreed to partner with Auntie Jennifer to start an Orphanage in the community. Auntie Jennifer is very excited about our partnership, and the opportunity to expand the care for Orphans in Chingola.
The walls are up and plaster begins on the 3rd home at HOFO. The walls may take 2 weeks for completion. I have a smaller work force until such time funds flow more freely.
Our Servant's Heart Missions Team leaves for Zambia on 4 November 2008, and among other planned activities, this group is funding the 3rd home at House of Faith Orphanage(HOFO) in Silembe, Zambia.
This school for Orphans is located in Chingola, Zambia, and was started by Auntie Jennifer. To begin this work she started by washing sand for the local mines to gain the necessary funding to rent the building for the school.
This school for Orphans is located in Chingola, Zambia, and was started by Auntie Jennifer. To begin this work she started by washing sand for the local mines to gain the necessary funding to rent the building for the school.
Teaching from the small vestibule in Chingola.
In addition to the school, Global Orphan Relief has agreed to partner with Auntie Jennifer to start an Orphanage in the community. Auntie Jennifer is very excited about our partnership, and the opportunity to expand the care for Orphans in Chingola.
All of the furniture for the Orphanage is made in Zambia, and often times even right there in Silembe. This cabinet was supposed to be ready before the Jones went to the States. Finally, we have it as Elizabeth, our house mother for the 1st home, stands just behind the front door.
The walls are up and plaster begins on the 3rd home at HOFO. The walls may take 2 weeks for completion. I have a smaller work force until such time funds flow more freely.
Last year we experienced what they claimed to be '100 year rains' and water was everywhere -everyday. The ground water became so prevalent that the pressure crushed our septic tank. We are using additional support to include cement to help the brick stay in place. Rains will begin again in late November - early December time frame.
Keep the Children of Silembe in your prayers as we grow our presence in Zambia.
Peace,
GO! Zambia Team
Afghanistan: Back to Where We Started
October 15, 2008 From theTrumpet.com
After a seven-year war, the country is returning to Taliban rule.
For 15 years, Ahmed Bachar has looked after orphans. Two hundred of them, aged 5 to 16. He’s made sure they had a bed each night, food in their bellies, and a way to get to school.
When Allied forces pushed the Taliban from power in Bachar’s native Afghanistan in 2001, money from international aid agencies started to flow to him. With it, Bachar was able to get a building, books, clothes and even toys for the children.
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After a seven-year war, the country is returning to Taliban rule.
For 15 years, Ahmed Bachar has looked after orphans. Two hundred of them, aged 5 to 16. He’s made sure they had a bed each night, food in their bellies, and a way to get to school.
When Allied forces pushed the Taliban from power in Bachar’s native Afghanistan in 2001, money from international aid agencies started to flow to him. With it, Bachar was able to get a building, books, clothes and even toys for the children.
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African orphans visit Blackminster school
12:14pm Wednesday 15th October 2008
By Daniel Fawbert Mills »
PUPILS and staff at Blackminster Middle School were given a special presentation this week from guests who had travelled half way around the world to see them.
On Monday a group of orphans from Uganda, in Africa, visited the school as part of a fundraising mission in aid of their own school and village over 4,000 miles away.
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By Daniel Fawbert Mills »
PUPILS and staff at Blackminster Middle School were given a special presentation this week from guests who had travelled half way around the world to see them.
On Monday a group of orphans from Uganda, in Africa, visited the school as part of a fundraising mission in aid of their own school and village over 4,000 miles away.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Need to cut down number of orphans stressed
MARY GWERA
Daily News; Saturday,October 04, 2008 @00:02
The Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Prof David Mwakyusa, has stressed the need to expand Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services, to reduce the number of children living with HIV/Aids.
Closing the Regional Inter-Agency Task Team (RIATT) on Children and AIDS conference in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, Prof Mwakyusa said the move would also cut down the number of orphans in the country. “By ensuring family care and putting HIV-positive mothers and fathers on treatment, we can reduce the number of orphans,” the minister said.
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Daily News; Saturday,October 04, 2008 @00:02
The Minister for Health and Social Welfare, Prof David Mwakyusa, has stressed the need to expand Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services, to reduce the number of children living with HIV/Aids.
Closing the Regional Inter-Agency Task Team (RIATT) on Children and AIDS conference in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, Prof Mwakyusa said the move would also cut down the number of orphans in the country. “By ensuring family care and putting HIV-positive mothers and fathers on treatment, we can reduce the number of orphans,” the minister said.
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