Stories & Testimonies

Compassion Orphanage in front of their new home! I’m very happy to report to you that Compassion Orphanage is now moving into their new home! This house is much bigger than their previous one, and they have a backyard where they can raise livestock with […]

While the children might appear to be the pigs’ friends right now, those pigs had better watch out! The director of New Heritage Orphanage, James Thang, is striving to make his orphanage self-sufficient. To that end, he asked Orphan’s Tear for a $1,000 loan to […]

Love and Mercy Shelter now has new mosquito nets! Love and Mercy Shelter was needing new mosquito nets to replace their old ones with big holes. They were no longer able to keep malaria-infected mosquitoes from reaching the children beneath them. In response to our […]

Thang Hli Pai with a beaming smile. Thang Hli Pai doesn’t remember what her parents look like. Her mother died giving birth to her. Her father died by snakebite before her first birthday. She was found by a missionary, who cradled baby Thang all the […]

Obed of New Heritage Orphanage shows off his catch…and his smile! I’ve never had much interest in fishing, but at orphanages like New Heritage in Myanmar, having a pond for raising fish is a great blessing. Adding fish to their diets improves the children’s health, […]

This is all that was left of their home after the government ordered it to be demolished. Over the past several years, Orphan’s Tear has helped over 30 orphanages in Burma. One of them, Christ’s Home for the Needy, we had never been allowed to […]