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Since no parent or parent factor to guide them right and guide their excesses, teachers in some of their schools are left with extra work to discharge. The state of being an orphan can affect some children into thinking too much which can lead to depression making the quality of their life deteriorate drastically. Bad traits which ought to be corrected immediately become a norm and way of life because they see nothing bad in them. Majority of them become so wild and untrained because they lack proper home training. Most times, orphans are charged with the responsibility of catering for themselves like providing feeding, shelter and basic essentials of life. Orphans are exposed to different hardships if they don’t have good or no guardians. This makes them start taking up tasks meant for adults or doing what their parents ought to be doing for them. These pains could be unbearable for them when they see their other friends with their parents. Most orphans suffer different degrees of pain like psychological and emotional trauma when they are at a place where love and care are absent.
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Orphans are commonly found in underdeveloped countries. Pray God’s people will be a strong support system for young widows.An orphan is a person especially a minor whose both or one of parents have died or a minor whose parents have permanently abandoned them. Pray she finds a good, safe and stable job that will provide enough-or more than enough-to take care of her family and keep her children in school. Please pray the Lord blesses each young widow with the grace she needs to persevere through challenging situations. Widows need a good support system to help them through the challenges of widowhood while taking care of a family-and GFA workers are there to help them. Many eventually drop out of school to help bring in extra income, which leaves them vulnerable to perpetuating the cycle of poverty or becoming prey to exploitation. Their children also end up in precarious situations. Finding an employer can be difficult because of the social stigma of widowhood sometimes the only employment widows can find is begging or prostitution. If a widow’s husband was the only breadwinner, she is suddenly left with a fight for survival for herself and her children. Women widowed at a young age who have dependent children face an even greater burden. “World Widow Report.” The Loomba Foundation. Pray for widows currently undergoing emotional trauma because of the loss of their husbands and the negative treatment they now endure.Ģ Harma, Risto F. Please pray God transforms people’s minds and hearts to respect and cherish widowed women. 2 But there are people, such as GFA workers, who go against societal norms to embrace and treat widows with the respect and human dignity they deserve. Years-even centuries-of traditions have stigmatized and marginalized widows so that they are frequently pushed away seen as cursed and forced to perform rituals that demean their humanity, such as drinking water their dead husband’s body was cleansed with or being forced to sleep with a stranger to break the bond they had with their deceased husband. For widows in Asia and Africa, that grief is often compounded by the sudden reality that they are no longer seen as women worthy of love and care from their relatives and friends. Losing a spouse comes with deep grief and heartache. Please join us as we pray to our Heavenly Father on behalf of the many widows and abandoned children in need.ġ Harma, Risto F. GFA workers visit, encourage and provide for their needs, showing widows and abandoned children how much they are valued and loved-contrary to how others in their society treat them. Their children often forego any education and are forced to support themselves and their families through child labor, begging and prostitution.” 1įor more than 40 years, GFA World has been honouring God’s heart for widows and abandoned children by caring for them in their distress. Yet in so many regions across the globe, widows and orphans endure horrendous abuse of various kinds.Īccording to the Loomba Foundation, “In many countries, when women lose their husbands, they are deprived of their possessions and their dignity, subjected to degrading treatment and excluded or marginalized in the community. In other words, take care of them, make sure they are doing well, especially in their time of great need. Visit orphans and widows in their distress-this is what God tells us is pure, undefiled religion (see James 1:27).