Christian Orphanages: A Directory

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Residential Care Facilities for Children in the USA and Canada

Orphanages were the primary way of caring for indigent or unwanted children in the USA from the mid-19th century into the mid-20th century. After that, foster homes and small institutions like group homes replaced orphanages. Recent studies have shown that well-run orphanages generally offer far better experiences for children than does the foster care system, and some orphanages are once again in operation in the USA. For more, see here.

Here are the Christian facilities we have located.
 

Alabama Baptist Children's Homes (Alabama)
Provides homes for children and youth at campuses in Decatur and Mobile, and at group homes in Mobile, Dothan, Gardendale, Oxford and Alabaster.

Albuquerque Christian Children's Home (New Mexico)
The children are from broken homes with a single parent who is financially destitute, or because of weak or non-existent relationships with parents or step parents. They all need security, nurturing, guidance, and protection as they attend school and church to prepare for responsible adulthood.

All the King's Horses Children's Ranch (Benson, Arizona)
A place where kids can be placed who need a Christian home and a loving Christian environment. Future plans are to have a school and some other things also. Right now they need construction workers and house parents. See web site for details.

Alpha Christian Children's Home (Perry, Kansas)
We provide a stable, Christian family home and school for children who are abused, neglected, orphaned, troubled, or poor; and those from dysfunctional families. Volunteers welcome: Construction, Teaching, Landscape, Professionals, Office Help, Mechanics, Graphic Arts, Job Skills, and Etc.

Arkansas Baptist Children's Homes (Arkansas)
Providing help to children and families in need through a statewide comprehensive program of services utilizing Christian compassion and professional skills. Boy's ranch. Volunteers welcomed to inquire.

Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina (North Carolina)
Residential Services are provided at the four campuses of Baptist Children's Homes, in community-based group homes, and at a wilderness camp for boys. A variety of placement and prevention services are available to meet the needs of the individual child and/or family. Volunteers welcomed to inquire.

Bellewood Presbyterian Homes for Children (Kentucky)
We serve the needs of children of both sexes, aged from 10 years and over, and families in Bowling Green, Lexington and Louisville, providing a safe haven and an opportunity for a better life.

Bethel Bible Village Children's Home (Hixson, Tennessee)
We are a mission operating seven residences on one campus caring for children whose families are unable or unwilling to care for them. Christian house parent couples live full-time in a residence with 8 children. Volunteers can help with carpentry, electrical, plumbing, general maintenance, grass cutting, office help.

Blue Mountain Children's Home (Blue Mountain, Mississippi)
A home for troubled, abused, and abandoned children. We are here to help, teach, train, and love hurting children to grow in mind, body and spirit. We give each child a home, showing them our love and, most important, God's love. Volunteers are welcomed to inquire.

Boles Children's Home (Quinlan, Texas)
Residential care in a licensed, homelike atmosphere for children and single-parent families. It is Most children are between 10 and 17, placed here because their family is unable to provide for them. Christian couples are needed to serve as house parents in cottages with up to eight children. Training provided.

Buckner International (Dallas, Texas)
Provides residential programs for at-risk children and families; short-term missions opportunities to serve orphans in more than nine countries around the world; church collaborations; child mentorships; foster care and adoption programs domestically and internationally. Children's summer camp counselors recruited from colleges and universities. Baptist affiliation.

Care4Kids (Missouri)

Children's Foundation of Mid-America Presbyterian Children's Services (Missouri)
Adolescent children find a gentle, loving environment where they know people really care about them. Volunteers welcomed to inquire. Farmington Children's Home, Midwest Learning Center, Regional Girls' Shelter, Stubbins Family Youth Center.

Christian Heritage Children's Home (Nebraska)
We work with abused, neglected and abandoned children and youth in homes located in central and eastern Nebraska. We are always looking for couples and individuals who have a heart for children and want to serve the Lord by working with youth.

Covenant Community Services (California, Tanzania)
We are a multi-faceted ministry to abused and neglected children, providing transitional housing for former foster youth in California, and foster care in Tanzania and California. We also recruit, train and certify foster families to provide safe, stable and loving homes for children to develop and grow in God's love and grace.

Covenant House (USA, Canada, Latin America)
The largest privately-funded child care agency in the United States providing shelter and service to homeless and runaway youth in many locations in the USA and Canada (see locations here). Also Covenant House Crisis Shelters and Rights of Passage Programs. Facilities in Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. (Roman Catholic affiliation)

The Crossnor School (North Carolina, USA)
We're "a private, non-profit children's home and school in the western North Carolina mountains, serving children who, for circumstances beyond their control, can no longer live at home," because of abuse or neglect to the point that their well being is threatened.

Eagle Ranch (Flower Branch, Georgia)
A Christ-centered home for boys and girls in crisis and in need of hope and healing. We pursue family restoration and reunification. House parents have no more than seven children per home, allowing for focused attention for each child. Volunteers who can help with prayer, cooking, cleaning, tutoring, and landscaping, please inquire.

Escuela Caribe (American run, in Dominican Republic)
Year round, fully accredited Christian therapeutic boarding school for high school students. We believe all our students will grow and develop spiritually, socially, emotionally, educationally, and physically. We offer what other American placements cannot: atmosphere, culture shock, and distance. Our mission is to assist parents whose children have high potential but are underachievers.

Florida Baptist Children's Home (Miami, Fort Myers, Lakeland, Jacksonville, Tallahassee and Pensacola)
Safe homes for boys and girls who have been neglected, misdirected, abandoned, abused, or caught up in family turmoil. They get medical care, proper clothes, education, counseling, lots of love, attention, and a positive lifestyle. Most important, we teach them about Jesus Christ. Volunteers may inquire.

French Camp Academy (French Camp, Mississippi)
A Christian School and home for young people who come from broken families and/or instable families. We live, work and study in a residential setting within 780 acres of forest land. Volunteers with skills in quilting, horseback riding, Bible study, landscaping, athletics, tutoring, carpentry, etc., are welcomed to apply.

Georgia Baptist Children's Homes (Georgia)
Twelve locations: residential care, campuses. We are the largest single provider of residential services to abused, neglected, and troubled children in Georgia.

Goodland Presbyterian Children's Home (Oklahoma)
Supervised, residential care for boys, ages 6-18 years. Boys who live here attend church services each week in various Presbyterian churches around the area, and participate in weekly Bible study and worship services on the campus. Affiliated with Presbyterian Churches. Church work groups welcomed.

Hannah House (Niagara Falls, NY)
Ministry to the down and out, the poor, and to needy children. Soup kitchen. Also, children's homes in Africa, India, and Pakistan.

Happy Hill Farm (Granbury, Texas)
Serves troubled, hurting children with a broad range of behavioral and academic problems, children who are experiencing emotional instability, often due to family trauma. Some are from backgrounds of abuse and neglect. All live, work, and study in a year-round, residential school/farm setting. On-line video.

Heritage Mission (Huntertown, Indiana)
A Christian boarding school for children who have been separated from their families. We shepherd children with individualized instruction, and administer to the whole child, satisfying physical, academic, and spiritual needs. Opportunities for "Nannies" to help.

High Plains Children's Home (Amarillo, Texas)
Committed to the physical, emotional and spiritual health of society's youth who are orphaned, outcast, homeless, neglected or otherwise taken advantage of. The Home nurtures in each child an environment of love, security, productivity, social maturity and trust in God.

His House Children's Home (Miami, Florida)
We offer help and hope to children and families in crisis by providing residential services for children, newborn to ten years of age, who have been abused, neglected or abandoned and children whose parents are in crisis. Cottages are staffed with house parents with supporting caregivers. Volunteers always welcomed in inquire.

Joy Ranch Home for Children (Hillsville, Virginia)
Providing a safe, secure, and Christian haven for children in distress situations. Our residential program for ages 5-17 uses an eclectic approach which includes Reality Therapy, Behavioral-Cognitive Therapy, and Psycho-Social Theory. We work to bring wholeness and wellness to the child and his or her family.

Mercy Home for Boys and Girls (Chicago, Illinois)
An open, long-term residential home for troubled youth. Three campuses offer residential care to boys and girls from 11 to 21. Eight programs offer the structure and independence to work through emotional difficulties and the opportunity to achieve academic success. Volunteer opportunities. (Roman Catholic)

New Horizons Academy (Marion, Indiana)
A year-round Christian therapeutic boarding school licensed by the State of Indiana. Warm acceptance in a supportive setting stimulates students' growth and maturity. Students learn the value of character and integrity while undergoing intense academic training, personal counseling and Christian teaching.

Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services (Austin, Duncanville, Itasca, San Antonio, and Waxahachie, Texas)
19 group homes serve 130 children with trained professionals and support staff. We maintain a nurturing environment where children can learn and practice positive behaviors and healthy family relationships. There is spiritual guidance, prayer, Bible study, participation in worship and congregational life.

Seamark Ranch Children's Home (Jacksonville, Florida)
A non-denominational, Christ-centered children's home and school is committed to sharing the Gospel, hope, healing, and a brighter future with abused, neglected, abandoned, and homeless children. Located on a beautiful 468-acre campus. Volunteer opportunities.

Southern Christian Home (Morrilton, Arkansas)
Affiliated with Church of Christ.

St. Joseph's Orphanage (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Provides a diverse continuum of care through certified mental health programs, licensed residential care and community support services. Some paid openings for mental health workers, case managers - more.

Stubbins Memorial Regional Family & Youth Center (Central Missouri)
12 - 18 year old males and females find a gentle, loving environment at this group home, where they know people really care about them. Contact Jim Ford at 314-989-9727. (Presbyterian Children's Services)

Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes (Tennessee)
Through this program, six to eight children live together as an active, giving family unit in campus cottages with a married couple who serve as houseparents. Facilities in Brentwood, Memphis, Chattanooga, and Millington. Volunteer opportunities to help children who have been neglected or abused make a new start.

The Baptist Children's Village
Several facilities in Mississippi for children under 18.

The Grace Home for Homeless and Needy Children (Tucson, Arizona)
The only non-government funded home for children in AZ. Our's is truly a home filled with God's love. We are all volunteers, and are currently looking for houseparents to live with and love our children. A big heart, an application, and background clearance are required. Part of The Giving Tree Outreach Program.

The Tipton Home (Tipton, Oklahoma)
WE have a long and proud history of raising children in a loving, caring, Christian environment. We have been taking care of kids for over 75 years. Children, 5 through 18, reside in cottages with houseparents who strive to meet their needs and provide a loving home. (Affiliated with Church of Christ)

Thornwell Home and School for Children (Clinton, South Carolina)
A 130 year old residential facility serving children ages 2-18 who are in out of home placement due to abuse, neglect, and abandonment. We use the Teaching Family Model of child care, a humane, nurturing, and effective program for working with hurting children. Volunteers from the local area are welcomed to inquire.

Treutlen House (Rincon, Georgia)
"A community-based, ecumenical ministry for children and families who are dealing with personal crisis and are seeking assistance to improve their current situation."

Wears Valley Ranch (East Tennessee)
A Christian children's home and school that provides the Gospel of Jesus Christ, solid Bible teaching, an individualized education and the unconditional love of carefully chosen house parents to deserving young people from crisis family situations.

Westview Boys' Home (Hollis, Oklahoma)
We offer boys a rural environment in which they can grow, live, learn and be loved. Our wide open spaces open the eyes of needy children to endless opportunities. Boys 6 through 18 live in cottages, two to a room. (Affiliated with the Church of Christ)

York Place (York, South Carolina)
The Episcopal Church Home for Children Residential Treatment Facility serves children and adolescents who are "most in need". There are many opportunities for volunteers to help the children at York Place.

Some Christian Residential Care for Children facilities in Florida

International Orphanages: Long and Short Term Opportunities

In many orphanages, the staff is overworked, the facility is overcrowded, and the orphanage is low on finances. The orphanages are usually run by local people with local kids. Unless you speak and understand the local language, are willing to eat a simple and meager diet and sleep in crowded conditions, you might not be the best candidate to "help" at these orphanages. Usually you must provide your own finances and your own transportation. Be sure to develop a clear understanding of expectations before you agree to assist in an international orphanage.

Use Search to locate orphanages in countries of special interest to you.

Training for working with Children at Risk click here.

Two Other Directories of Orphanages, Not Necessarily Christian:

Orphanage.org Listings

Extensive directory of organizations working with children at risk,
serving mostly in Russia and Eastern European nations.

A Future and a Hope (Nakuru, Kenya)
A home for orphaned girls who are well cared for and receive good private school education, food, clothing, shelter, and integration into a loving, Christian family. Interns and other volunteers may come and expect to do anything from cleaning, cooking, construction, and visits with hurting peoples in the community.

Abang Ashu Academy of Cameroon (Mamfe,Cameroon)
Among other ministries, we provide educational, medical and nutritional support to orphans and widows We welcome inquiries from volunteers to help with orphan identification and support, bible teaching, and home visits.

Abba Father's House (Jinja, Uganda)
An orphanage / children's centre under construction in Uganda's second largest city, creating homes for disadvantaged children, especially orphans, to give them hope and to encourage them to look forward to the future and put their trust in Jesus Christ. Volunteers can help with building and working with children.

Abba House (Entebbe, Uganda)
We are caring for 30 children and growing. We're using the house model in which 12 -15 children and 2 widow caregiver/mother's reside in a home. We can use volunteers for construction, farming skills and fund raising for sponsorship.

ABEI Disabled Children (Quito, Ecuador)
Caring for about twenty five handicapped boys and girls aged 1 - 10 years. Their disabilities include cerebral palsy, Down's Syndrome and brain damage due to oxygen deprivation at birth. Volunteers urged to inquire. Affiliated with Outreach International

Action Africa Society (Uganda) (email address - no web site)
We have opened a primary school with over 200 orphans. One pastor has offered his house and 30 children reside with him. HIV/AIDS is the main cause of death for people with many wives. They leave many children behind. Volunteers are welcome: education, health, construction, agriculture etc.

Adullam Educational Institution (Mysore D.T., S. India)
We provide social, economical, educational and health sectors among the uncivilized tribals and dalits. We have a home for orphans and destitute girls and boys, including those who were bonded child laborers. We need volunteers, who can help children in their school assignments: homework, math, science, music, sports, swimming, etc.

Adullam Orphanage (Obuasi, Ghana)
Nearly 100 children, most Ghanian and some Liberian, from birth to 16 years. We provide schooling, medical, good nutrition and a loving home. Occult activities are rampant in this area; this is not for the fainthearted nor for those who don't know their spiritual authority. Prayer and fasting is regular. A great learning experience for those with a heart to see children saved physically and spiritually.

African Child Foundation (Katebo Village, Kampala, Uganda)
We believe that local communities are in the best position to determine their own needs, and we provide volunteers to help them achieve their goals. We need Teachers and assistants, construction, maintenance volunteers. Furnished room and meals provided.

Africa Greater Life Mission (Bulabakulu Children Village) (Kampala, Uganda)
Come work with us to empower impoverished women and children by providing spiritual, physical, and vocational education regardless of social or religious background. Christians with useful skills are welcomed to inquire, including teachers, doctors, nurses, cooks, builders, home makers, computer trainers, etc.

African Orphan Outreach (Kambiri, Kenya)

Agape - Russia
"Russia is filled with Orphanages..." Nearly all are government operated, but this organization enters these schools and orphanages, to help children with vitamins, school supplies, and medical consultations for their problems.

Agape Children Center (Bangalore, India)
We aim to provide shelter for rag pickers and orphaned street children between 5 and 12 years of age, demonstrating and encouraging social skills and hygiene, and enabling them to bathe, rest, play, and wash their clothing. At present time, 18 girls and 17 boys are cared for in our two separate centers.

Agape Children's Home (Chandel District of Manipur, India)
A registered charity which supports children in north east India providing aid and education. The charity is looking to establish a strong base in the Manipur region of India and expand to help more children in need. Volunteers welcome to inquire.

Agape Home (Chiang Mai, Thailand)
We show the love of Christ by providing a loving home for orphaned and relinquished babies and children with or at risk of HIV/AIDS, and encouraging community care for them. We seek for volunteer care givers who are at least 20 years old and willing to commit to serve 6 months or more.

Agape International (Hyderabad, India)
We operate children's homes for AIDS-affected and infected orphans. We welcome short term and longer term volunteers to help us. Because of the stigma of AIDS we also run our own English medium school, for which we are seeking teachers for long term commitments.

Agathos Foundation (Southern Africa)
Seeks to empower Southern Africa's AIDS orphans and elderly to achieve healthy, prosperous, and fulfilling lives, by providing for physical, emotional, and spiritual needs critical to their advancement.

Agua Viva Children's Home (Chimaltenango, Guatemala)
Founded after the big earthquake in 1976, we currently house 80+ children. Our goal is to rear and educate the children in a loving Christian environment to be successful, Christian adults with the desire and ability to help their own people. Volunteers welcomed to inquire: we help organize church teams to visit us.

AIDS, Orphans and Street Children (Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Uganda, other nations)
By the end of the decade, it would take 80,000 orphanages that hold 500 children each just to house the children orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Whole villages are made up of children and the very, very old due to the death from AIDS of all the family adults. Teen Missions and AOSC have seven bases in sub-Saharan Africa where the AIDS epidemic is the most severe. Many ways to help.

AIM for Restoration of Hope (Uganda)
We are a pro-life ministry whose mission is to scale up the response of people to the needs of orphans in Uganda, and to mitigate through spiritual, health, and socio-economic assistance the needs of children who have been orphaned as result of HIV/AIDS.

Albergue Martina - Discontinued. See Mission to the Children (Moca, Dominican Republic)

Allow the Children (Service in Nepal)
Provides both basic life needs and spiritual nourishment in order that the children will become dynamic servants of God, who will eventually reach others with the Good News. Ministry partners in Nepal include 4 children's homes and nearly 200 children with their caregivers.

Aloha House Orphanage (Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines)
We are building an orphanage! The staff is trained and we are directing the ministry with a great team. We have a full nursery and the need here is great for the abandoned and surrendered children of Palawan.

Alon Kibbutz (Limpopo Province, South Africa)
A Life Enriching experience! Christian Kibbutz located on a beautiful farm where volunteers can involve themselves: orphanage, teaching in Christian school, Arts , Crafts, Catering in Restaurants, Farming, Horticulture, Carpentry, Metalwork, Motor Mechanics, Secretarial, etc. Any skills welcome - there are various departments to accommodate you.

Alpha Orphan's Academy (Suna - Migori, Kenya)
We give children a loving home atmosphere, a place to heal from the past, and an opportunity to gain a fresh start in life. The children are well fed and clothed, and their health, social and spiritual welfare is tended to. There is a nursery and primary school. We need volunteers to teach and help us build.

Amani Baby Cottage (Jinja, Uganda)
Amani means "peace" in Swahili. We are home to about 50 orphaned and abandoned children, ages newborn to 4 years. Volunteers are welcomed, short or long-term. Only qualifications are loving God and loving children. We've had many volunteers, all who have had positive experiences.

Amazing Grace Children's Home (Awasi, Kenya)
An Anglican orphanage on 5 acres, working with AIDS orphans. Facilities to house and feed 100 children. Volunteers are welcome if they have experience with children or medical - health care experience.

Amazing Grace Orphans (Nairobi, Kenya)
Providing housing, quality education, food, clothes, medicines to the abandoned, under-privileged and needy children of Kenya. Volunteers who can teach skills such as bricklaying, concrete work, carpentry, sewing, design, Christian education, etc., which can benefit the orphans, are invited to inquire.

Amazing Grace Orphanage (Adjumani, Uganda)
Home to more than 30 Sudanese refugee children who have lost their parents in the Sudan civil war. Volunteers can teach, provide medical assistance, train staff in administration skills, help with agriculture projects, or just visit. Founded in 1994. Affilitated with Episcopal Church of Sudan.

Ambassadors for Children (Not necessarily Christian)
Humanitarian trips to assist children and orphans, seniors, medical clinics, etc. AFC has scheduled humanitarian missions to Mexico, Kenya, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Jamaica, Jordan, Malawi, Morocco, Navajo, Servbia, Uganda, and other communities in need.

Amistad Mission Villa Amistad (Bolivia)
Helping the needy amongst the Quechua in and around Cochabamba. Homes for children, medical and educational programs, vocational training, more.

Anderson Home For Children (Salem, South India)
Open for the past 42 years. Children have grown in Christ's love and many minister for God in India. We now have many students from orphanage who are doing their Bible college. Volunteers are welcome: Singing, preaching and teaching English.

Anna Orphan Home (Ubalanka, India)
We care for orphaned and destitute children. Come and touch the life of a child who desperately need your help. Teachers welcome. Just playing with the children would be wonderful: stickers, toys, coloring books, and stuffed animals would make the children ecstatic! (Norwegian Organization)

Another Hope Children's Ministry (Wakiso, Uganda)
A community based orphanage that works to improve the physical and spiritual lives of orphaned and street children, and children from impoverished families. We welcome volunteers who can assist with Sunday school teaching, English teaching, arts and crafts, medical needs, administration, and more.

Answering For The Children Ministries (Jinja, Uganda)
Serving parentless children 0 to 18 years old who are in need of the necessities to sustain life. Established in 1999 by a husband and wife team who act as parents to the children. Volunteers who love the Lord above all else and love children are welcomed (recommendation required). A 501c3 organization.

Ark International (Romania)
A non-profit ministry focused on reaching the Street Kids of Romania for Christ. These children face freezing cold temperatures, starvation, and abuse. We provide food and clothing and become their family. We love them, counsel them, and help them to grow up into Godly young men and women.

Arms of Love
We establish children's homes where "houseparents" care for children who have been permanently separated from their parents due to death, abandonment, or abuse, including child prostitutes. We develop each project as a ministry of a local church, and partner with churches in the U.S. and the U.K. to facilitate their involvement in the projects. Current projects in Nicaragua, Philippines, Mexico, and Senegal.

AROH Orphanage (Jinja, Uganda)
We help AIDS orphans and destitute children by supporting them through paying for their formal education, welfare, and medical care. We also have a ministry to widows, an AIDS/HIV education campaign, and other initiatives. Volunteers welcomed to inquire.

Ashalaya Children's Home (House of Hope)   (Mumbai, India)
Ministering to street children. There are countless such, living on streets, begging for survival, struggling for life. Many are abused, forced into child-labor, begging, misused for criminal activities and thus result into crime, prostitution, way-ward lifestyles, living without hope.

Ashirvad Home for Orphan and Street Children (Tuni, A.P. India)
50 children, between 5 and 15, at this time, more waiting for help with food, clothing, and shelter. We need volunteers who can teach English, games and crafts, and stories and songs from the Bible, or provide basic medical care. Med students welcomed.

Asian Children's Foundation (Philippines and Myanmar - Burma)
Founded to meet the need of some of the 1.5 million orphaned and abandoned street children in the Philippines (Redemption Ranch and Home of Grace), and orphans in Myanmar (Home of Refuge). Volunteers welcomed to inquire.

Asian Hope Children's Home (click "Programs") (Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
Currently supports 31 orphans, two schools (230 children) - among the best in the nation, and 25 outreach children. We are unique in that the on-site missionary family lives with the orphans, creating a family. Volunteers encouraged to contact us.

Asia's Little Ones (Cambodia, Thailand, Northern Asia)
Several programs to help abandoned and orphanaged children. Volunteer opportunities, including for those with health care specialties. (Affiliated with Assemblies of God)

Aswasa Bhavan (Aswasa bhavan means home of comfort) (Aundipatty, Theny, Tamilnadu, India)
An alliance of Corrections India, we offer care and education for the children of prisoners. When either or both the parents are in prison and there is no one to look after the children, they miss education and care. Often they are misled and take to crimes and other anti-social activities. Volunteers are welcomed to inquire. (Christian affinity unknown)

Baby Watoto: Watoto Child Care Ministries (Kampala, Uganda)
Volunteers are welcome to spend between 1 - 6 months helping with the wide range of tasks associated with caring for many babies. We need nurses (especially with paediatric experience) and those with skills in education, medical, building, and administration, or who just have a heart for loving babies.

Bacong Children's Home (Dumaguete City, island of Negros, Philippines)
35 to 40 children, two house parents and other staff. Since 1990. Part of New Life Children's Home ministry.

Bahay Kalinga Orphanage (Naujan, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines)
The "House of Caring" orphanage invites visitors. See photos on their web site.

Bartimai Centre For The Blind (Ahmedabad, India)
This is a home and preschool for blind children, and an outreach ministry to visually impaired children and adults. Started in 1997. We have a computerized Braille printer and programs, and publish Braille material including Christian titles. DVD of our ministry available on request. Please visit us!

Beautiful Gate Ministries (Lesotho, South Africa, Namibia)
Our mission is to establish and support care centres for children in need. We have several care facilities, including two for AIDS/HIV children. We also provide training and staff development.

Belize Faith Missions
Calling all with a heart for missions. Come to Belize, Central America. Short term mission teams are needed to help in our church, school and the Millhollon's Training Home For Children, which provides transitional and long term care for youth in crisis.

Beersheba Christian Mission for the Mentally Challenged (no web site: this is an email link)
A christian Mission catering for children with various mental disabilities with residential facility needs volunteer special educators, speech and occupational therapists and psychologists to work to propagate the kingdom of God.

Belize Mission Center (Belmopan, Belize)
English-speaking youth groups and church teams minister and serve at the orphanage in the capitol city of Belmopan, as well as work with kids in a small village at our mission facility on the shores of the Caribbean. (photo)

Bethany Children's Home (India)
Also called Visag Children's Home, cares for about 300 children, and is under the auspices of Love-N-Care Ministries in Vermont, USA.

Bethany Christian Home for Children (Talakag, Bukidnon, Philippine Islands)
We aim to provide a loving Christian home environment, Christian education, medical care, and food and shelter where the homeless, abandoned and orphaned will experience newness of life in Christ and grow up in devotion and giving of themselves for service. We welcome inquiries from volunteers.

(The) Bethany Project UK (Tanzania, East Africa)
Works to help the most vulnerable people in a rural area by providing financial support and volunteers to visit both long and short term to share in the work both in the UK and in Tanzania. Volunteers from UK only.

Bethel Children's Home (Nepal)
Bethel Children Home is a ministries of Thimi Bible Church. We are reaching the least privileged Children of Kathmandu and other parts of Nepal in a Christian home. Volunteers with a vision and heart for parentless children are urged to inquire, especially those who can teach English and Bible.

Bethel Evangelistic And Rehabilitation Centre (Elathagiri, Krishnagiri-Dist, Tamilnadu, India)
An Indian national orphanage with 25 kids. The main objective is to serve the poorest of the poor and the suffering people irrespective of their caste, creed or community barrier. Volunteers can help with Children's ministry, Pastoral Training, Orphanage, Administration, Construction, Computer skills. Global Hand

Bethel Orphanage (Kafue, Zambia)
AIDS in Africa has increased child charity burdens for orphanages like Bethel that help children, most of whom have lost their parents through the scourge. We currently support more than 100 children, in Central Africa. Volunteers are very welcome. No special skills are needed, except a big heart that identifies with the heart breaking needs of the children.

Bethel Orphanage (Hogar Infantil Bethel) (City Bell, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Home to over 45 boys and girls of ages three to sixteen. The children are provided hot meals, clean clothes and stay in clean dorms where they are protected and supervised by Christian staff. We encourage willing volunteers to contact us. You can help in many ways.

Bethel Orphanage - Elatghagiri (Krishnagiri, Tamilnadu, India)
Our Orphanage is 12 years old with 25 boys and girls. And we are in an under developed rural, remote region. We accept only Christian women from 19-50 years as volunteers. Sewing, computer, cooking skills. Manage web-site, help with fund raising.

Bethel Training Center for the Blind (Beijing, China)
We care for and educate blind orphans, ranging in age from infants to young adults. We need a volunteer nurse or other health care professional to oversee their health care. We also need teachers for special ed, music, physical ed, plus counselors, OT/PT and speech therapist, etc.

Bethesda International (Uganda)
Many children have lost either both or one of their parents to Aids. All these have resulted in the daily increase of orphans and under privileged children in the streets. We have cared for more than 100 children, seeing their education facilitated and their basic needs met.

Bethesda Life Center (India)
Orphanages in Andhra Pradesh and Goa, more underway. Teams or individuals are welcomed to stay in one of the children's homes as short-term or long-term volunteers, and can help in many ways. USA office.

Betikara (Madagascar)
Facilities under construction. Need volunteers for teaching, building, doctoring, loving, caring, playing, etc.) and with a spirit of encouragement. (Affiliated with Church of Christ)

Big Family Mission to Russian Orphans
Two week trip to Russia. Live at a St. Petersburg orphanage for approximately one week while you minister to orphans and do repair and maintenance work.

Big Stone China
Help a Chinese orphanage & charity ministry while teaching English to elementary, middle school, high school or college students in Henan, China. Now hiring for positions starting in February or September, 2010. 1 year contract. Email resume. Also many unpaid short term opportunities.

Bishop Judith Craig Children's Village (Liberia)
Ten acre facility near Monrovia provides secure shelter, school, and vocational training. Affiliated with the United Methodist Church.

Bless India Ministries (Visakhapatnam, India)
An expanding ministry of Christ the King of Kings Ministries, cares for orphans and widows. For more information, contact USA office at 712.277.4760, Monterey CA.

Blessing the Children (Benishangul-Gumuz region, Kamashi, Ethiopia)
Established in response to the Government's plea to care for the orphans. We can use your help, long or short term. Children's worker, evangelist, teacher, medical professional, dentist or just wanting to lend a helping hand. If you can hold a child, witness, teach or care for the poor, then you have a place here.

Bolivian Children's Mission (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
A home for almost 40 orphans, abandoned and high risk children. Street dwellers, glue sniffers, children with parents in jail. "Giving children a chance" is our motto. Inquire about volunteer opportunities. We need caretakers, tutors, construction teams, more.

Bolivian Youth Ministries (Cochabamba, Bolivia)
Our mission is to reach the people of Bolivia, specifically the children, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are presently caring for 25 female children and planning to expand to 35-38 soon. Volunteers with a servants heart and willingness to be salt and light to the girls are welcomed to inquire.

Brazilian Christian Children's Home (Itu, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Also known as Lar Cristao, this home has been in existence for over 20 years. Children are from two years to 16 years of age. It is on 18 acres of land on a small farm. Affiliated with Church of Christ and Southern Christian Home.

Breath of Heaven Children's Ministries (Lusaka, Zambia)
Zambia is one of the poorest and least developed nations on earth. Some estimate the number of orphans has surpassed a million: 130,000 live in the streets of Lusaka, the highest per capita number of street children in the world. Volunteers, please inquire (Contruction, any medical, teacher training, logistics, etc.)

Brebis de Saint-Michel de L'attalaye Bresma Orphanage and School (Port au Prince, Haiti)
"Brebis" for short, this is an orphanage designed to care for about 30 children. Volunteers are very welcome, and they coordinate with a group called Answered Prayers who sponsors the orphanage. Many skills are needed and useful. Mission trips are usually every three months or so.

Bring Me Hope Foundation (China)
We invite you to to volunteer with our summer camps for orphans in China. Come for one or two weeks to change the lives of children who need love. Camps are held in various cities throughout China. Families with children of all ages are welcome. VIDEO

Brothers Charities Children's Home (Mallappally, Kerala, India)
This children's home currently operates in an old house, and we're planning to build a new facility soon. There is a great need for ministry to orphans to provide food, shelter, dress, education and all other needs. Teachers, missionaries who like to develop native missions are welcomed to inquire about helping us.

Buckner International (Based in Dallas, TX)
Buckner connects caring Christians with orphan and at-risk children for short-term missions in several countries including: China, Guatemala, Ethiopia, Kenya, Latvia, Mexico, Romania, Russia, and Peru. Buckner also offers domestic mission opportunities along the United States - Mexico border.

Bui Chu St. An's Orphanage (Vietnam)
Originally the Angelic House, this orphanage cares for and nourishes over 60 orphanaed and handicapped children in the centre, supporting them also so they can attend schools. Also provides training and assistance to help the community care for several hundred more orphaned and handicapped children.

Bukaleba Childrens Center (Bukaleba, Uganda)
1500 acres of beautiful land waiting to host orphans from acrss the country of Uganda. Volunteers with any abilities are welcome. We believe this experience is as helpful to the volunteer as it is to Uganda. Check out our web site for specifics.

Butiki Orphanage Home (Jinja, Uganda) email address
Accommodates 30 girls and 30 boys orphaned by HIV/AIDS. Half of the children are infected with HIV/AIDS. Volunteers are welcomed to inquire, so long as they are based on God's word and promoting God's kingdom.

Buwaiswa Orphanage Children's Home Ministries - BOCHM. (Buwaiswa Kamuli Uganda)
Several projects underway, including an orphanage (full capacity: 72 HIV/AIDS affected children). Another 782 HIV/AIDS orphans are being housed among grannies. Clean water, Micro finance, etc. Inquiries from volunteers welcomed! Affiliated with Organization for the Good Life of the Marginalized (OGLM)