Open Hearts for Orphans

Through our trusted partners, your collective support funded heart surgeries for five orphaned children - ebenezer, baby yu, jayson, elizabeth, and hope. We were also able to fund medical care for grady, a burn victim who needed skin grafts, and bowen, an orphan who needed eye surgery. We continued shipping necessary medical supplies to the children of little flower, including infant iron drops, liquid ibuprofen and tylenol, gummy vitamins, treated gauze bandages, gauze pads, and triple antibiotic first aid ointment. In addition, we sent seventeen pulse-ox infant sensors. We stood in the gap with our uganda partners who, once again, saw a continued surge of abandoned and malnourished babies. We were able to provide for twenty five babies through medical care, specialized nutrition, and emergency foster care. Your donations covered annual medical care and treatment for 39 girls at mercy home for orphaned and abandoned children in the philippines.

Funded 11 fully-furnished new homes for vulnerable families including solar, water tank, latrine, and kitchen positively impacting 67 vulnerable children funded initiatives to place 30+ children from uganda in loving foster families 100+ children were educated through tuition assistance in uganda. 15 orphaned children supported through monthly sponsorship we provided funding for basic necessities including food, clothing, beds, bedding, and household items for many vulnerable families in uganda. Multiple struggling mothers and child-headed households were given new hope and opportunity through seed funding to start new businesses to help them provide for their families. We covered annual expenses at madre de anna vitello, a home for orphaned / abandoned children living with hiv in guatemala and provided warm blankets and bedding for 346 vulnerable children in uganda. We provided christmas gifts for 51 south Florida children in foster care and sponsored a holiday party at fun depot for them.

21 "say yes" adoption grants were approved in 2023, and 17 children came home in 2023 with the help of our grant. Our grants impacted children with multiple special needs from 9 different countries - bulgaria, colombia, dominican republic, hungary, india, kyrgyzstan, philippines, uganda, and the us. In our advocacy efforts, we continued our arise program in delray beach, Florida - bringing adoption resources, information, stories, and encouragement to shine a light on adoption and provide support for families in the process. We continued our weekly social media series called "see me saturday" to bring awareness to Orphans in need of families. We continued to bring awareness to the orphan crisis through events and speaking engagements, our memoir "with an Open heart", and our logo necklaces that support orphan care initiatives. Logo necklaces and copies of books were donated to families for adoption auction fundraisers.