The latest Casa Viva newsletter should be hitting your mailbox this week! If you want a sneak peak of the newsletter you can download the Autumn 2008 Welcome Home.
In it you'll find a great article by Jill Aspegren on the importance of connecting children to families and communities. Lack of connection is one of the biggest faults of orphanages and institutions.
When Children turn 18 they are shown the door in institutional settings, whereas at Casa Viva children develop connections with extended family members, church communities, brothers and sisters. They have a place to go home to celebrate Christmas the rest of their life, they have an uncle who owns a tienda down the street that might give them a job.
Showing posts with label orphanage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label orphanage. Show all posts
08 October 2008
22 August 2008
Presidential Candidates on Orphan Crisis
I don't know how many of you caught the presidential candidates being interviewed by Rick Warren. I personally didn't have the time to sit down and watch it for two hours (I was watching the Olympics).
But I heard afterwards that Rick Warren asked both of them to consider making the orphan crisis their big social contribution to the world, Like Bush made AIDS in Africa his.Rick Warren states that there are 148 orphaned children in the world and asks what their solutions might be.
McCain (who has an adopted daughter) says he'd like to make adoptions more possible for Americans. While this is a great solution for the individual children being adopted there are 148 million children in need and only 110 million households in America! Adoption cannot be the only solution.
Rick Warren correctly states that orphanages and institutions are not the best place for orphans to be raised that families are. Orphanages cannot be the only solution.
Casa Viva is creating an alternative solution to orphanages and institutions that empowers national churches to be a solution for orphans in their own country. I am excited to be a part of this alternative solution to the 148 million orphans in the world.
Warren asks Obama and McCain about the Orphans of the World
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