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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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.”
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.
