25 days until we board our India bound plane, 4 days until we hand over our keys to our renters and 8 days until we visit Ryan's family in Illinois.
I wanted to share with you some statistics on orphans in India and worldwide.
It is estimated there are between 143 million and 210 million orphans worldwide (recent UNICEF report.)
The current population of the United States is just a little over 300 million… to give you an idea of the enormity of the numbers… (The current population of Russia is 141 million)
Every day 5,760 more children become orphans
In 2007, there were 25 million orphans in India, according to UNICEF. However, only 3,332 adoptions (853 international, 2479 domestic) took place in 2006
There are 738 verified orphanages in India.
Where are these orphans sleeping at night? What do they eat? Who is loving on them and caring for them?
For millions of them they have no place to lay their heads at night and scrounge for food in dumpsters. They are told that they are untouchable, unlovable and must have been awful in their past life, that is the reason they are an orphan.
We are learning more each day why God is sending us to India. The need is great but our God is HUGE!!!
James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
The Toliver's
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