Category Archives: Angels of the Week

Imagine coming home from a hard day of work trying to sell vegetables, knowing you did not make enough to be able to feed your four children dinner.  In fact, you probably don't even have enough to feed them breakfast and the next day's only meal will likely be no more than rice with some over-ripe left over vegetable no one else wanted to buy.  Your heart sinks as you see the hopeful faces of your children, thin and frail from malnutrition.  You  are desperate to make a good life for them, and all you can do is pray for a better day tomorrow.

Cinlunmawi's mother faced this painful truth everyday, like so many widowed women in India...she could not provide for her children and they were suffering.  When she heard about Angels' Place, she put her daughter on the waiting list and in 2015, she was accepted into the orphanage.  Though she would surely miss seeing her child on a daily basis, she knew it was the only way to lift her suffering and give her the gift of hope she deserved.

You can see in the image evidence of the secure and colorful life Chinlunmawi now lives.  She shares a solid warm home with other children she now calls "family".  Her day is full of fun crafts and activities, music and dance groups, school and studying, friends with whom she can share a carefree game in the court yard, and always a warm nourishing meal on the table for her three times a day.   For so many women who live in extreme poverty, these are blessings beyond her mother's wildest dreams.

Caregivers at Angels' Place know "Mawi" as a sweet, lovely and active girl who loves to sing and dance.  Mawi wants to some day be an educator and is very grateful for her sponsors who have made her dream a real possibility.  Because of the James Connection, she and her mother now have hope, the greatest gift of all.

If you would like to learn how to help children like Chinlunmawi, please visit our Ways to Help page to learn how.  There are hundreds just like her on our waiting list at Angels' Place, hoping someone like you might help make room for them.

If you would like to read more Angel of the Week stories, click on "Angel of the Week' under Categories on the right of this page.

So many children in India do not know what it is like to grow up in a loving family and feel cared for.  Niangbiankhoih, known as Hoih at Angels' Place, was destined for such a life until she found her way to our orphanage.

Hoih lost her father in 2011 and then her mother in 2015.  She was alone and scared and remembers feeling like she had no one.  She recalls a very tough and unpleasant life in those days.  The normally cheerful young girl was living under a cloud of despair.  "I had no one to support me".

Then in 2015, she came to Angels' Place.  Within a short time, she was smiling again, playing with new friends and studying her favorite subject, Moral Science.  Her cheerful fun-loving personality began to reemerge as she settled into her new home, surrounded by a new "family" to care for her.

Though she will always carry the sadness of losing her family at such a young age, she now feels hope where before was only despair.  "With God's help, I can do and achieve anything I want," she proclaims with confidence.  When asked what she dreams for her future?  To become a doctor.  She knows the James Connection will help her get there!

Do you want to help children like Hoih, who feel like they have lost everything, even their hope for a happy future?  There are hundreds of desperate children on our waiting list at Angels' Place.  You can help us make room for them by visiting our Ways to Help page now.

To read more Angel of the Week stories, click on "Angel of the Week" under Categories to the right.