What You Don’t See Changes Everything
If you walked through our baby home on a normal day, you probably wouldn’t notice anything spectacularly remarkable. You would see babies being fed, held, and changed. You’d see aunties moving about doing laundry, taking babies on walks, delivering snacks to cottages or the play area. You’d see uncles slashing grass, playing tag with the […]
The Ministry of Ordinary Faithfulness
The theology of routine caregiving It doesn’t always look significant. Much of the real “work” we do, the everyday chores, the caretaking of the babies is actually pretty mundane and repetitive. Feeding babies, washing bottles, changing diapers. Faithfulness in the Everyday There’s a tendency to look for impact in big moments like milestones, transitions, […]
Poverty vs. Abandonment
It’s easy to assume that when a child is alone, they must not have a family. But that’s often not the full story. MOST CHILDREN HAVE FAMILY Many children who enter care do have family somewhere—parents, relatives, extended connections. What’s often missing isn’t relationship.It’s stability. Poverty, crisis, and lack of support can push families […]
The Myth of “They Won’t Remember”
When a very young child goes through something difficult, a common reassurance follows: “They won’t remember anyway.” It sounds comforting.It sounds merciful. But it depends on what we mean by remember. We usually think of memory as stories — moments we can describe later. First birthdays, first homes, certain places. Babies don’t keep memories that […]
Why Family Should Always Be the Goal
Around the world, children’s homes, or orphanages, exist because sometimes children cannot safely stay where they were. That is also why we exist. We are a temporary baby rescue center. Babies come to us in moments of crisis, and for a time we become their consistent caregivers, their temporary family. We learn them, soothe them, […]
Love is Not a Feeeling – It’s Predictability
Many people assume babies need more attention, more toys, or more stimulation to thrive. But what they need most is far quieter than that — and it shapes every decision we make in how we care for them.
What Family Means: Why Family Changes Everythi
For years, the word orphanage has been linked with safety and compassion — a place where vulnerable children could find food, care, and protection. And while those intentions are good, around the world people are beginning to see what we’ve known all along: children grow best in families. At His Cherished Ones, this belief has […]
Orphan Care – bridging the gap
When most of us think of the definition of “orphan,” we think of a child whose parents have died. Though that is technically the definition, most organizations today, especially children’s homes, use the word differently. Approximately 80% of children in orphanages, are not true orphans. “Poverty orphans” or “social orphans” are children who have been […]
Home Visits – the Family Connection
As we love and care for the babies in HOH, we also strive to connect with their families and the community around us. One of the ways we connect with community is by going on home visits to foster and adoptive family homes. Some are nearby, some are more remote. All are special and a […]
Furaha!
If you have been around HCO for awhile, you will remember our single mothers sewing project, Furaha. About five or so years ago, we started a project of training single moms with an income generating skill that they could use to provide for their families. After learning to sew, they would participate in making some […]