Fifteen years ago this fall, AFFEO was built on a simple but powerful idea: if vulnerable families were given tangible support — food, clothing, firewood—children could remain safely in the love of their own homes, not in orphanages or institutions. That vision still stands today — and your prayers help make it possible.
As the cold sets in soon, something as simple as a warm blanket or firewood can be the difference between a child staying safely at home or facing separation. When parents cannot provide enough warmth for their families, children are at risk of being removed and placed in orphanages.
Across the globe, children will face life-threatening cold in the months ahead. In Ukraine, with forests destroyed or mined during the war, firewood is harder to come by for families. Our partners are already needing to secure firewood and transport it from further distances to assist families struggling to remain together.
Meanwhile in India, children often huddle under thin sheets as nighttime temperatures drop near freezing. A single blanket can mean the difference between shivering through the night or sleeping safe and warm.
Your prayers are important in keeping families together!
• In Ukraine, 80 families are in urgent need of firewood for five cold months from October to March. Won’t you pray with us that the Lord would provide them with this necessity, which offers stability in the midst of war?
• In India, hundreds of families need warm blankets that can protect children’s lives. Let’s pray that the Lord would supply this need as well!
As one mother shared, “With firewood, I don’t have to choose between buying groceries or keeping my children warm.”
Every blanket, every bundle of firewood is more than material support — it is a shield that protects children from the cold and from the heartbreak of separation. Your prayers help carry on AFFEO’s vision of keeping children where they belong: in families. Thank you! Your prayers are “… defending the weak and the fatherless, and upholding the cause of the poor and oppressed,” (Psalm 82:3).