Freedom for Florence

Meet Florence… Prior to ORR’s Micro Finance Program, Florence, like many other parents we serve, was having a very hard time feeding her children. Now, eight years later, she has a successful seamstress business to support her family and is set free from unbelievable hardship. Now Florence is giving back to her community… Florence started her own apprenticeship program for …

Break the Silence of Abuse

Many times, because of poverty children are exploited by people in positions of authority who require sexual favors for daily necessities or to further a child’s education. Our goal is to Break the Silence surrounding physical and sexual abuse by creating informed and empowered children. And you can help!

New Life Brings Freedom

Happy Easter Everyone! We are excited to share that twenty-six girls, ages 8 to 17, were intercepted from becoming trafficked into a life of slavery, and their impending fate of horrific abuse was reversed! We are happy to say a whole new life has begun for these precious girls. Those who once were walking in complete hopelessness are now coming …

Together we make a difference

What is really important? When I sit down with the precious children we serve, I am always given a dose of reality and perspective on what is really important. During my November trip to Liberia, while talking with the children in our program, I asked the children what they were thankful for. Their responses were sobering. One after another, they …

Liberia was taken off the Trafficking Watch List!

Exciting News from the Field: Orphan Relief and Rescue is happy to make an impact on the status of trafficking in Liberia. Through many hours of hard work in partnership with the Liberian government, other non-profits, and humanitarian programs, Liberia was taken off the Trafficking Watch List and advanced to “Tier 2.” To understand the impact this has on the …

Coming Full Circle

With so much uncertainty in the world today, we can assure you that even though we have had to be extra creative with how we do our work, our focus remains the same: to protect and rescue children.  When children come to us, there is so much healing that needs to take place: such was the case with Daniel. This …

Remarkable Stories Continue

Remarkable Stories Continue During the current pandemic, we are still seeing children get help through the anti-trafficking hotline in Liberia (which ORR funds). Two sexual assault cases were recently reported and resulted in one arrest. We also learned that this hotline is being used to report suspected Coronavirus cases – making our hotline a conduit to communicate COVID-19 cases to …

Gratitude from Africa for feeding children during COVID19

Solome, an Orphanage Director in Liberia, shares her gratitude to ORR for feeding her children during the COVID-19 pandemic. After being completely reliant on our financial support for 8 years, this orphanage was able to become self-sufficient and went off our feeding program four years ago. With the arrival of the Coronavirus, they were in a desperate place once again …

Urgent Need: COVID-19 Reaches Liberia and Benin

The recent outbreak of COVID-19 has now reached West Africa, resulting in schools and gathering places to be closed and orphanages put into lockdown. We still need to feed the 358 children on our feeding program, but our resources are now stressed due to having to cancel numerous fundraising gatherings and speaking engagements in the USA. If not fed, these children …

Love In Any Language

It’s February!  A time that is always fun to celebrate Valentine’s Day with those we love. This is also the time when we reflect on the various ways we show love within our sphere of work in Africa. Love comes in the form of helping practically, as we are doing with hundreds of parents on our Micro-Finance program and their children on our school …