Dear Friend,

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More than a dozen years ago I envisioned building a network of full-care orphanages in the developing world with a standard far higher than existed. I had witnessed how impoverished these child-warehouses could be when I adopted my own son, Mathew, then ten months of age. His orphanage was so destitute I was asked to leave his tattered t-shirt behind for the next child.

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My mother, a child psychologist, encouraged me to bring this vision to life. Later, beginning with my portion of her estate, I created an organization to build small homes for children who had lost their parents to the Tsunami in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, and a hurricane in Haiti.

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After the Tsunami, Orphans International Worldwide expanded our model to include ‘family-care,’ placing children far too numerous for my organization to handle inside their own extended families, providing health care and education to both children and caregivers.

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Today, OIWW continues to support children in Indonesia, Haiti, Kenya, Afghanistan – and even the Sudan. Although we continue to support full-care programs for orphaned and abandoned children, we are also doing all that we can to help Ending Orphanages Globally in place of ‘family care.’

Before I began Orphans International Worldwide I realized that I could only do 100% of what I can do. I have done my best to give 100%. Now I am asking you to give what you can.

 

Make your tax-deductible contribution for OIWW’s children here. 

Or mail a check to our accounting firm,

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N. Cheng & Co., 40 Exchange Place, 12th Fl., New York, N.Y. 10005.

I can’t do it alone. Stand by me. Together, we can End Orphanages Globally.

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Cheers,

Jim Luce

Founder & C.E.O.
Orphans International Worldwide