No parent chooses to die and leave their children without defense & no child chooses to be an orphan… UNICEF estimates that approximately 153 million orphans worldwide with sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia having the highest number of orphaned children. Orphans are different from other vulnerable children in that they have lost a parent.

They are grieved. Grieving is painful, demoralizing, traumatizing and is a process, and some children never stop grieving. If they are not helped to overcome this grief, it can become psychologically disabling and they are unlikely to become fully functioning members of the society and the economy.