This is the personal blog of Orphan’s Lifeline International’s COO and Editor at Large, Greg Timmons.
Orphan’s Lifeline International has been caring for thousands of orphans in nine countries for 10 years now. We began work in Russia…later expanding into India, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Phillipines, Pakistan, Mexico and Haiti. Our programs are unique in many aspects.
We strive to provide all of the needs of the orphan children in a manner that is culturally cohesive, sustainable, effective and efficient.
As a co-founder, my wife and I made a committment to this work following the adoption of our daughter from a small village in Far East Russia. The deplorable condition of the orphange she lived in and the 87 children we left behind were the driving forces behind our decision to leave our other careers behind to spend our lives working with orphans around the world.
To me…it is a very personal thing…much more than a job. Every time I look at my daughter or think of the two little Russian boys that followed me around in that dark and damp place I am reminded of the importance of this work.
They tell me that there are 163 million orphans out there…a statistic that I find understates the reality…the human tragedy that goes far beyone the numbers. The reality is that there is one orphan…a unique and innocent child that needs my help…needs the opportunity to fulfill his or her dreams…have hope…and the knowledge that he or she is loved through my actions in providing for his or her needs…and then there will be one less of that unfathomable number of unique individuals who are much more than a single digit…abandoned as a statistic…needlessly suffering.
That is our purpose and our mission here at Orphan’s Lifeline International…to help as many individual orphan children as possible while never losing sight of the fact that they are indiduals, each a unique and special person with unique needs, dreams, talents and worries…we will never become a humanitarian factory!
