Asia’s Hope is an organization that we have partnered with for many years. We sponsor one of their family-style homes in Cambodia, a school in Cambodia, and educational costs in India. Additionally, we have provided vocational and college sponsorships to a number of young adults who grew up at Asia’s Hope.

There are many organizations that look good from a distance but do not achieve the outcomes that Asia’s Hope has accomplished. Meeting a child’s basic needs through food, water, and housing is essential. Yet research has shown that without consistent, caring relationships, children often struggle to break generational patterns of poverty, abuse, and instability. In many places, children who grow up in large orphanages—even when their basic needs are met—face significant challenges as adults. Many experience homelessness, exploitation, incarceration, or ongoing cycles of poverty and instability. In contrast, the children at Asia’s Hope, many of whom come from some of the most desperate circumstances in the world, regularly demonstrate high rates of educational completion, find meaningful employment, and become loving parents themselves. This is because family-style models of care are among the most effective ways of caring for vulnerable and abandoned children.

At Asia’s Hope, children grow up with primary caregivers who live in the home with them. They are also part of a larger community of children and families within Asia’s Hope. Many of these young people leave to pursue higher education or employment and return for holidays and school breaks. Some even come back to work at Asia’s Hope or other nonprofit organizations. Overwhelmingly, they demonstrate the ability to break generational cycles and build lives marked by stability, purpose, and hope.

Our experience with Asia’s Hope is one of the reasons we have increasingly focused our giving on organizations that provide family-style care for children in need. The ability to partner with Asia’s Hope is possible because of the work each of you does every day.

(Pictures from Asia’s Hope’s director John McCollum – Taken in Cambodia and India)