U4O’s Multi-Layered Approach

U4O’s Multi-Layered Approach

December 20, 2024

Unity 4 Orphans’ multi-layered approach aims to meet holistic needs and transform the lives of orphaned and vulnerable children throughout five countries in Latin America. We believe the first step in helping children is to ensure that their basic needs are met and raise them out of the poverty mindset. Our hope for each of …

Healing 4 Change: Why U4O Values Counseling

Healing 4 Change: Why U4O Values Counseling

November 21, 2024

Through Healing 4 Change, Unity 4 Orphans provides counseling to help vulnerable children build self-esteem, process trauma, and learn healthy communication skills to guide them to brighter futures. The children we serve throughout Latin America have experienced realities no child should ever have to experience, which is why we highly value counseling. Education helps them …

How U4O Helps Vulnerable Children Overcome Their Circumstances

How U4O Helps Vulnerable Children Overcome Their Circumstances

November 7, 2024

Unity 4 Orphans’ holistic set of programs helps vulnerable children in Latin America overcome challenges and heal from the trauma that may keep them stuck in the cycle of poverty. Children in all five countries where we serve face daily dangers and difficulties like abuse in their homes, food insecurity, insufficient education, and violence in …

Panama Update: Counselors Help Children Process Trauma

Panama Update: Counselors Help Children Process Trauma

October 3, 2024

Unity 4 Orphans’ programs in Panama keep growing, helping vulnerable children keep up in school and complete their education, and giving them a place to belong. Our partners at Juntos Podemos in Curundu, Panama City have been running a Saturday program for local children for 17 years. Their dedication to kids living in poverty and …

Unity 4 Orphans: What We Believe

Unity 4 Orphans: What We Believe

September 4, 2024

Unity 4 Orphans is called to care for orphaned and vulnerable children by providing education, counseling, and nutrition and preventing orphanhood by strengthening families. For many of the children we serve in Latin America, the grip of multidimensional poverty seems too strong to break. As a result, they may end up dropping out of school, …

National Counseling Month: Why Healing 4 Change is Important

National Counseling Month: Why Healing 4 Change is Important

April 19, 2024

For National Counseling Month, Unity 4 Orphans is highlighting why Healing 4 Change is a crucial program to help vulnerable children heal from trauma. We believe in a holistic approach to caring for children who have experienced abandonment and abuse and are growing up in unstable conditions. Over 1,000 children are receiving counseling thanks to …

Healing 4 Change: Transformation Stories from Mexico

Healing 4 Change: Transformation Stories from Mexico

November 30, 2023

Unity 4 Orphans continues Giving Season Stories with our second program highlight! Healing 4 Change is helping children and staff at our partner orphanages in Tijuana through counseling and emotional support. Our end-of-year blog series features transformative stories from 5 different locations, each highlighting a separate program: Education 4 Change, Healing 4 Change, Nutrition 4 …

Program Staff in Mexico Support Orphaned Children and Unite Latin America Team

Program Staff in Mexico Support Orphaned Children and Unite Latin America Team

December 9, 2022

Unity 4 Orphans’ Programs Director provides an update on expanding counseling and holistic care for children and staff at the orphanages in Tijuana, Mexico. Since we welcomed them on staff, Marco and his wife Anabel have been busy supporting the staff and children at the orphanages that U4O serves south of the border. The value …

Meet Julia, Unity 4 Orphans Engagement Specialist

Meet Julia, Unity 4 Orphans Engagement Specialist

December 2, 2022

Our newest team member has been volunteering with Unity 4 Orphans since 2021, leading service trips and now as a special liaison to engage and support our community. Join us in welcoming Julia to the team officially, although she’s been involved with our organization for over a year and a half. She originally heard about …

Staff Teacher in Tijuana Helps Orphaned Children Succeed in School

Staff Teacher in Tijuana Helps Orphaned Children Succeed in School

November 1, 2022

Unity 4 Orphans hires a new team member who works with children at the orphanages we serve in Mexico to provide educational and emotional support. As our programs expand in Latin America, we are adding key members to our support team, and are happy to introduce Daleth. The children we serve at orphanages in Tijuana …

One Student’s Dedication to Rise Above Poverty Through Education

One Student’s Dedication to Rise Above Poverty Through Education

June 24, 2022

Unity 4 Orphans is proud to share the story of one student from our ESL program in Nicaragua and inspired by children who are determined to rise above their circumstances through education and break the cycle of poverty. ESL Student Overcomes Hardship to Attend University Pahola Santana is a student in U4O’s English as a …

A Young Boy Works to Overcome Poverty and a Learning Disability

A Young Boy Works to Overcome Poverty and a Learning Disability

June 3, 2022

We’re proud to introduce a student from our ESL program in Nicaragua who continues to pursue his education despite economic hardship and learning challenges.   Student in Single-Parent Family Learns ESL Despite Struggles with Poverty Richard Vilchez is eleven years old and in the 5th grade. He’s in level 3 of 14 of our ESL …

ESL Program Supports Impoverished Students To Reach Higher Education

ESL Program Supports Impoverished Students To Reach Higher Education

May 20, 2022

One teenage girl living in poverty finds self-confidence and learns initiative through U4O’s ESL instruction and supportive counseling services with our program in Miramar, Nicaragua. Programs Provide Education and Support to Students Living in Poverty Andrea is a young woman in her teens who recently moved on from our ESL program to university, and our …

Meet U4O’s Mental Health Professional In Nicaragua

Meet U4O’s Mental Health Professional In Nicaragua

November 5, 2021

Greyddyn is U4O’s child psychologist for our English program in Miramar, Nicaragua. Her role is to care for the psychological health of each child. She says, “My greatest motivator is the results we get to see. That brings me fulfillment and motivates me to believe that we are an agent of change in these kids’ lives.”

Counseling Gives Hope for Brighter Futures

Counseling Gives Hope for Brighter Futures

July 20, 2021

Unity 4 Orphans’ heart for the children we serve calls us to help meet needs for not only their physical health and education, but also their emotional and mental health. With the support of our gracious donors, we have hired psychologists to work with the children in Miramar and Tijuana.

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