Life Of an Orphanage

   Have you ever had the chance to talk with an orphan - to ask what it feels like to be an orphan.

 A real live story from a friend of mine...which I met years ago on social media(Facebook) been looking for an article to write then I remembered his story ...😇

Here we go...

  I've lived most of my life as an orphan and I've known many others, so I know what they would say. I lived in Korea, until I was 22. Then God made it possible for me to join a family in the United States.

Most orphans would say that they want more than anything else to be rich and rise up in the world. So at least they could get away from being an orphan. Finding their birth parents is not that important to them though it may be a second choice. They know that their parents will never look for them.

   Being an orphan is not the way you want to live. He be said When I was growing up, an orphan was second class. Some people thought orphans were "no good." It was lonely, painful, fearful. I worried about starvation. And people take advantage of orphans.

   After I got out of the orphanage, I was desperate. At the age of 17, I was completely by myself. I couldn't go back to the orphanage. But no one cared about me and what I was doing.

   Luckily, I did have someone I could contact. When I was in the orphanage, I had a sponsor. I didn't know how to write to them, but I did have their address. Because I had left the orphanage, I was afraid that they wouldn't care anymore. But they were the only ones I could tell about my feelings.

   I had a feeling that they loved me so that they would write back. They are a Christian family, and they'd sponsored me since I was little. If it wasn't for them, I don't think I could be here in the United States now.

   To the orphan, sponsors are a big encouragement. Orphans care about their sponsors and they love them, like I did. If I didn't have a sponsor, my life could have been in a bad situation. But because of my sponsor, their encouragement and prayers and love, I worked hard to live the right way and did not give my life up. I still write to my former sponsor, and they still encourage me.

   At the last Oregon Holt Heritage Camp, I shared my story. I cried and couldn't finish my speech, but I'd like other opportunities to share my experiences with young adoptees.

   Every time I see kids who were adopted as young children, I feel that they were surely blessed. They didn't have to go through all of those hard experiences that I did.

   Some adoptees are positive about being an adoptee, but some are not. They wish they'd never been adopted. But they don't know what it's like to grow up in an orphanage.

   I know that some kids who are adopted when they are older have some problems, but they're sure happy about being in the United States.

   I am very lucky because the Mayberry family brought me to the United States to be in their family. Now I can feel that I have enjoyed my life. But even still, I feel that something is missing. Of course, I am old enough now to be independent, and I should go out and look for my new life. I think I am jealous because I didn't have parents - the most important people in my life - when I was little. I always dreamed about getting all the attention and getting spoiled by loving parents. But now it's too late to dream about those things. I have grown up.

   That's why I think that having a family is so very important to orphans. I went through childhood without parents, and I always felt that I had missed something important.

   Now I really enjoy working at Holt because they help orphans to find families. Even though I came to my family as an older person, I think I am very fortunate - because I have a family. I am not by myself. I am a member of a family and that has helped me to appreciate even more that I am part of an eternal family - the family of God.

Inclusive on the "Life of an Orphanage

A lot happens within our environment. It may be hard to believe but yet true that the life orphan children live is of big challenge. I fail to know why it happens in such a way that after the parent(s) pass away, their children start testing the wrath of their death, as these people who remain to take care of the children, they again make them pass through regrettable experiences. These children suffer a lot, to the extent of missing out schooling because no one is willing to pay their school dues.

What is more hurting is that even the little the parents leave for their children, the relatives (uncles and aunties) start sharing them among themselves in equal ratios. Children are exposed to child labour; young girls are forced to get in marriages, taken like they are not humans, which make them live unhappy. In your own way, just imagine a situation where you can pass through a day with nothing for your stomach.

This is what the orphan child experiences as most of them take days only getting one meal a day and at times move out with totally nothing to eat.

They are expected to work a lot throughout the day, mistreated and at the end of the day when time for sharing benefits comes they are considered last. This result into poor performance at school, most of them end up dropping out of school. Others decide to leave home and go to streets thus become street kids whereas some end up losing their lives for they feel no body is there to stand on their side for support, hence yielding a negative feeling in the life of orphans regretting as to why they were born

These a ways to help an "Orphanage

• Participate in “7 Days of Nothing” and donate the money you save to help orphans. Encourage others to participate by sharing your experience on the Families for Orphans.

• During the holiday season, request that those who traditionally give you gifts donate to help orphans instead.

• Instead of sending a gift to someone, donate the amount of the gift you would have given to help an orphan and inform them of the donation being made in their name.

• Hold a “Birthday Party for an Orphan,” and invite your friends to come and each bring $10 to donate to help an orphan who has probably never had a birthday party.

• Ask your church l, mosque to sponsor an orphan or project.

• Contact your dentist, doctor, orthodontist, chiropractor or anyone you regularly pay for services, and ask if they will donate a portion of your payments to help an orphan.

• Dedicate a percentage of the profits of your business each month to Families for Orphans and advertise your support of this project.

There are still are many other ways, you can help an Orphanage.

Thanks for reading may God Continues to guide us and the Orphanage🙏😇

Bye for now 😇🥰