"Orphan-Headed Households"Stop for a minute and try to imagine being fourteen and burying your parents and being left to take care of 3 younger siblings. Your dreams cast aside, the reality of 3 mouths to feed crashes down on you. Your parents left no money. There is no insurance. All you have is a cold, tiny cement block house - if you can call it a house. You have an uncle, but he is sick too. You dread waking up each day. You want to play soccer with the other kids your age but you don’t have the time nor the energy. You want to go to school but you can’t afford it. Your life is consumed with trying to find ways for you and your three younger siblings to survive. Imagine the emotional, physical, medical and even social wounds that haunt these young children who are the heads of their households. Pray for them to find hope.
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