The Fu Concert Fundraiser
Last week, The Fu, a local band in Atlanta, put on a concert at the Flying Biscuit to benefit Orphan Epidemic and NightLight and Orphan Epidemic raised a little over $400 in just 2 hours! HUGE thanks to the good crowd that came out to support the band and the cause! Here are some pictures from the event (and our little table and no, contributions don’t go to buying iPads…it was...
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The latest UNICEF report, The State of the World’s Children 2009, states that over 500,000 mothers die during pregnancy, labor, and delivery. That’s over 500,000 children (provided they survive) becoming orphans from the time they are born. A great majority of these maternal mortalities are preventable by basic OB/GYN care. With modern medicine as it is, this just should not...
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There are over 145 million orphans in the world. Over 2 million more are orphaned each year because of HIV/AIDS. You read those numbers and you can’t help but be taken back. And that’s where it usually ends. Sure you may even think that there’s something you can do about it, but what have you done? Think about this. Each of those 145 million orphans have a name. They have a...
Read MoreStop the Epidemic
There are over 143 million orphans in the world today and increasing by over 2 million each year. In one day, the earthquake in Haiti resulted in over 30,000 orphans. Last year, the US internationally adopted 12,753 children. If one out of three churches in the US had one family to adopt a child, there would no longer be a need for the foster care system. There is a problem. The first step...
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