At the sight of our vehicle, children came screaming and running towards us as we pulled into their orphanage home today. This is always a highlight and an emotional time for me upon each return to Liberia. Opening the door and being mobbed by a sea of black little healthy faces is the most amazing and wonderful sight, as I remember just a short time ago, pulling into this same orphanage with these very same children in huge distress. They had sunken in eyes and very malnourished and skinny little bodies when we first met them. There is nothing more rewarding than being apart of their rescued and transformed lives due to our intervention.
Orphan Relief and Rescue was founded 3 years ago to help the orphans in the orphanages that no one wants to touch. They are the homes in the worst conditions. Our animals in America live in better conditions than most of the orphans here. We want to help change every aspect of that. My husband and I being co-founders reside in Lindale Texas with our 3 kids and travel back in forth to Liberia overseeing the work here.
Our 7 full time International field staff members and Liberian employees are doing a phenomenal job with our programs on the ground here. Our relief, construction, capacity building and child development programs are all in full swing and accomplishing amazing results.
The difficult part of what we do is seeing the many abuses that go on in the homes that have very terrible and selfish directors. We want to see those kids removed once and for all from those homes. I have many meetings set up this coming week regarding this issue with many people of influence. We want to be a part of the solution to this other very real problem. I will keep you posted in next weeks dispatch. Check out our website at www.orphanreliefandrescue.org for more information about what we do.
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