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Imagine if the children in your life didn't have someone to tuck them in at night, to read them stories, or to play with them.  How sad and lonely would they be? More importantly, imagine if they didn't have someone to teach them right from wrong, help them with their homework, teach them how to handle money, or help them find their first job.  How difficult a place would the world become?

143 million children live in that world today, according to UNICEF. Another 20 million children are in the classification of "displaced children." Combined that population creates the 7th largest nation in the world - larger than Russia.   Now imagine the impact on our world by simply studying the statistics: The Orphan Crisis.

The Orphan Foundation's mission is to find loving homes for the 163 million orphans around the world.  Our programs range from providing financial support to adopting families, to medical interventions for children waiting for adoption, to transition support for children leaving institutions or foster homes at 17 or 18 years of age who have no family to help them.