We are excited to welcome you to our blog and our new website! The purpose of Visions of God is to support children in orphanages around the world, as well as the orphanages themselves. Keep reading to learn more about our organization or check out our website.
What is an Orphan?
According to UNICEF, there was estimated to be 140 million orphans around the world in 2015. In the same article, they said that
61 million of those orphans were in Asia
52 million in Africa
10 million in Latin America & the Caribbean
7.3 million in Eastern Europe & Central Asia
To fully understand what this means, you must know how an orphan is defined on a global scale. Though most western and industrialized, an orphan is defined as someone who has lost one or both parents. A double orphan is someone who has lost both parents. Why is this definition important? Many who interpret the word “orphan” in the typical sense would see the needs of those children as a need to gain a new family or shelter. However, in many cases, there is a general need to support those villages and family units that care for those children. Epidemics such as the AIDS, Ebola, and others have left many children without one or both parents and the support system they need to be successful.
What Visions of God is Doing About It
One of the most universal characteristics of children everywhere is their desire to draw and create. It is only as adults that our minds get in the way of our creativity and bind us to the burden of perfection. Children in orphanages are just like the children that we once were and we have in our local communities: they like to draw.
T-Shirts For a Cause
At Visions of God, we decided to embrace children’s natural creativity and to use these children’s creativity to facilitate hope for them. We print their designs on t-shirt and sell them. With those sales we always giver $2 back to the child designer and 10-20 percent of the sales go back to the child’s orphanage. Not only do we get to encourage a child’s creativity, but we can provide money that fund their practical needs.
Where Are We Making a Difference?
At this time we are supporting children in some of areas of the world that have the most orphans Asia and Africa. Currently, we are specifically working with orphanages and organizations in U.S.A, Bangladesh, Africa, Philippines, India, Pakistan, Bhutan and Dominican Republic.
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