Orphans International

Orphans International Worldwide (OIWW) was founded by Jim Luce in 1999 as a response to the global crisis facing orphaned children. Inspired by his own adopted son Mathew and encouraged by his child psychologist mother, Jim first established a network of locally incorporated homes to house and educate orphaned children though traditional ‘full-care.’

In 2004, after the Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia and Hurricane Jeanne in Haiti, OIWW began to provide ‘family-care’ services – providing resources and support to keep orphaned children in their own extended families, allowing the families to remain intact. Since 2008, OIWW has continued to allow its original children to ‘age out,’ while beginning additional family-care services for the orphans of new disasters such as the earthquake in Haiti.

Through family-care, OIWW arranges for donors to provide on-going, monthly stipends for the financial, health and educational support to the orphaned children in its care. OIWW also provides school oversight, after-school tutoring, enrichment programs, health checkups, and regular monitoring of the child’s well being.

OIWW believes the greatest number of kids can be served when neighbors, aunts, uncles, and grandparents are provided with the means to care for orphaned children after a crisis has passed. This plan for orphans’ care requires intensive work by OIWW’s local staff, dedicated volunteer teachers and committed donors.

OIWW is associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information and is headquartered in New York City. Its mottos are “Raising Global Citizens” and “Ending Orphanages Globally.”

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