The Same Heart closes in on release
Thanks in part to this springs $6000.00 grant The Same Heart is nearing production release. Len Morris, president of Media Voices for Children recently updated Orchid with the positive news. Charlayne Hunter-Gault has been secured to narrate the landmark documentary. The Same Heart proposes a way to lift 1 billion of the worlds kids out of poverty.Thanks […]
Shepherd Hood Ministry Goats for School 2017
Shepherd Hood Ministry continues to invest in youth education and outreach and youth ministry programs. Since 2013 Orchid has been providing goats to young children saving for high school costs. 2017 will be another year we build on that promise and with your help we can sponsor many new young minds through education. Each child is given […]
Ending Poverty One Transaction at a Time
THE SAME HEART is a film that tackles the truth about what it will take to actually end the kind of extreme poverty that our world’s children are inheriting. We need alternatives to our complicated and voluntary aid system where most countries, our own included, deliver less than half the funds we have pledged. This […]
Where do the children play?
I have fond memories of soaring high on a swing and building towering castles of sand in my local neighborhood playground. For so many, these playful pictures remained engraved in our hearts and minds and were truly formation in our childhood development. Do you remember laughing and jumping in a playground? Have you seen the […]
A ray of hope
Over the past two weeks my family and I have been in New Hampshire at a lake cottage that my grandfather helped build over 60 years ago. This place holds many memories of my childhood and I feel fortunate that I can now bring my two boys to the same place I spent my summers. […]
When Hot Chocolate is Pregnant with Consequence
What stirs our heart to Give of ourselves comes in many shapes and sizes and like vintage clothing or toppings on a hamburger it is different for each of us. Some are energized by women’s rights and empowerment, others by reducing our carbon footprint, there are pet people and some of us are determined to […]
The Persistance of Hope
An Open Letter to President Obama about Children in the Fields from the founder and President of Orchids Partner Media Voices for Children; Mr. Len Morris, this years recipient of the Iqbal Masih Award from the U.S. Department of Labor Mr. President, Like millions of Americans, I was touched by your comments on election eve […]
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