UMCOR’s AREGAK Program:  Improving Opportunities forYouth in Armenia by Katie Henneman In 1997, the Armenia office of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) established the Sustainable Guaranteed Agricultural Assistance for Women (AREGAK) program to give women the opportunity to take out small loans ... (continue)
By the Grace of God:  the Orphans of Zimbabwe by Christie R. House Chirpo Makowi Fandera is just 50 years old. She lives with her family in the Glenview Falls section of Harare. She cares for 25 children in her home, six of her own and 19 “dumped” kids. “I don’t know who their parents are,” ... (continue)
Invisible People:  The Lives of Street Children in Port-au-Prince, Haiti by Rachel Mills and Alison Kern On a hot day in 1998, a 12-year-old boy stumbled through the gate of Grace Children’s Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Exhausted and emaciated, with the reddish-orange hair color that is a hallmark of acute malnutrition, ... (continue)
Street Children in Estonia:  Lighthouse Care Center by Mall Tamm Martin [not his real name] came to our Lighthouse Care Center when he got very hungry. His mother had left him when he was just a couple of years old. The boy lived with a mostly absent father. His father’s girlfriend was ... (continue)
Uruguay:  Home of the Sunrise by Cassandra Heller The warm fire, the warmly dressed children reading and playing, and the aroma of the roasted chicken being cooked by the older children for the others at Hogar El Amanecer (Sunrise House), the Lutheran-Methodist orphanage ... (continue)

Lighting the Way for Children  An extraordinary coincidence became apparent as we gathered the stories for this issue of New World Outlook. As the articles arrived, I noticed the names of the ministries in many of these articles contained the words "light," "day," or "sunrise." ... Yet one over-riding theme came through: ministries that reach homeless and orphaned children are ministries of light. They reach into lives that exist in very dark places and open the curtains. ...(continue)

The online version of New World Outlook features selected articles from the printed magazine. These additional stories appear in the print publication.

Alaska Children's Services Always Enough: Reflections of a Global Justice Volunteer in Nicaragua A New Start for Cambodian Street Children Children of the Streets of Vietnam Lost Childhood: The Plight of Indian Street Children The Homeless Outreach, Inc.: Response to Homeless Children in the Washington, DC, Area Children for Peace Training

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