Imagine: It’s almost five o’clock in the morning; the sun hasn’t risen over the horizon yet. You get up, crawl out of your potato sack and fetch water from the river. You bathe, dress and have a cup ...

Aids has already orphaned more than 11 million children across Africa, and the worst is yet to come as more parents succumb to the epidemic, Unicef said in a report on Wednesday. The report called for ...

Boston University researchers have found that orphans in Africa develop similarly to their peers, contradicting older reports that South African orphans perform worse in school and are more likely to ...

Tiffany Smiling has never been to Africa. But Africa's millions of orphans are calling to her. "When I found out that there are more than 147 million orphans in Africa, that was mind-boggling to me," ...

Chris Edmonds said he wanted to get involved with something meaningful when he decided he would help orphans in Africa. As you get older, the 45-year-old Edmonds said, "you realize that you want to ...

An Alsea-based church group hopes to raise money for three African orphanages with music. Worldwide Crusades paid $5,000 so choirs from the Ugandan orphanages could record their songs and, so far, ...

The girl was just 10, living with her five younger brothers and sisters in a small, dirt-floored hut in Zimbabwe. Her father had died of AIDS. Her mother had died of AIDS. Finally, her grandmother ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Monday night, a Siouxland-based non-profit held its annual event, all in an effort to help orphans thousands of miles away. That Sing for Africa event brought local choirs and ...

The mist clears over Gado-Badzere, the largest site in Cameroon for refugees from the Central African Republic. It is 6:30 a.m. when little faces begin to emerge. Big dark eyes open wide, tiny bodies ...

The students at Immaculate Conception collected 212 blankets as part of a blanket drive to help orphans in Swaziland, Africa. Their efforts contributed to approximatley 2200 blankets collected in the ...