The Facts About Orphans (source www.showhope.org)

The Facts

What is the need?

* Over 143 million children have lost one or both parents.
* Every 18 seconds another child becomes an orphan, without a mother or father.
* At least 16.2 million children worldwide have lost both parents.
* Every 14 seconds a child loses a parent due to AIDS.
* Conflict has orphaned or separated 1 million children from their families in the 1990s.



What about AIDS?

* More than 14 million children under the age of 15 have lost one or both parents to AIDS, the vast majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
* By 2010, the number of children orphaned by AIDS globally is expected to exceed 25 million.
* AIDS is more likely than other cause of death to result in children losing both parents.
* As the infection spreads, the number of children who have lost parents to AIDS is beginning to grow in other regions as well, including Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Is there hope?
YES!!! There is something you can do right now...PRAY! Pray for all of the sweet boys and girls that need a family. Pray for the social workers, foster families, and the staff at orphanages across the world that care for these children. Each orphan has a name and a story. Pray for these children to know the love and peace that can only come from God.

"I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these." John 14:12

"Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power at work in us, to Him be the glory" (Eph 3:20).