The Orphan Support League

08/02/2021

The Orphan Support League updated their phone number.

The Orphan Support League updated their phone number.

07/22/2020

Help us with homeschooling!

We are launching our homeschooling campaign in the USA. We have 54 children to educated at home until January 2021. Do help if you can. Thank you.

At Saidia we are homeschooling 54 children until January 2021. We urgently need to purchase 18 Samsung tablets which are loaded with age specific curriculum. We hope you can help with this important initiative.

02/03/2020

Exercises For Injuries

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After walking 75 out of 76 years of my life, taking a fall 3 months ago it REALLY shook me up.

Yet by following Rick Kaselj's Balance Training Handbook, I feel my whole body is better supported, my legs are stronger and my sense of balance is better than ever. And I'm so grateful!

Like thousands of other men and women on this program, I'm now living with new confidence and vigor.

Try the Balance Training Handbook for yourself to help regain the stability and peace of mind you deserve 👉 smarturl.it/Balance_LP

12/15/2019

NowThis Politics

NowThis Politics

‘President Trump is engaged in the most direct, sustained assault on freedom of the press in our history’ — Listen to Fox News anchor Chris Wallace slam Trump during this searing speech

12/15/2019

McGill Media

Impressive!

"My parents adopted me and gave me love and a future. They did their best to make the world a better place, and now that’s all I want to do, too." - Freddie Figgers.

11/22/2019

11/21/2019

Friends of Saidia

Sad news from Kenya

It is with a very heavy heart that we report the death of Shosho Teresa Wahito, one of the beloved founders of Saidia. Her funeral is on Friday 22nd November at Nakuru North Cemetery. Meeting point at War memorial Morgue at 8.00 am. The children at Saidia have made this video to remember their loving Teresa. She was an amazing woman who founded the Granny Club, was a social worker, a grandmother to our children. She will be missed by everyone.

11/05/2019

Woof Woof

Woof Woof

When your friend just won't stop talking

10/15/2019

NowThis Her

NowThis Her

This couple proposed to each other at the same time ❤️

10/15/2019

Piedmont Patch

Sure felt it!

Did YOU feel it?

09/24/2019

Elephant cries after being rescued following 50 years of suffering

Elephant cries after being rescued following 50 years of suffering

This Earth was created for all beings, not just human being. Therefore, we should treat all creatures with respect. In fact most of those so called(by humans, of course) ‘wild beasts’ are nothing but gentle giants who have feelings and emotions just as we do. Unfortunately, there are countless a...

07/18/2019

New Century Times

06/13/2019

Friends of Saidia

Congratulations to Cellyne and Pst Joseph Macharia who are getting married this weekend. Cellyne is a graduate of Saidia who attended Egerton University and is now a fully qualified teacher. She introduced us to her fiancee at our Graduate Lunch this year and the Mama's all gave him a big thumbs up. Cellyne is proof that education can break the cycle of poverty and that's what Saidia is all about. www.saidiacc.org www.orphansupportleague.org

06/01/2019

McGill Media

McGill Media

Carol Howarth, a 68-year-old grandmother, was going about with her daily activities, but little did she know she had imprisoned a queen in the back of her car!

05/20/2019

ABC News

ABC News

Billionaire philanthropist Robert F. Smith announces he is paying off Morehouse College Class of 2019's student loans in stunning commencement address: "We're going to put a little fuel in your bus." https://abcn.ws/2HE2v76

05/12/2019

Quartz

Quartz

The proposed roof would also house a garden which would provide fruit and vegetables. (via The Independent)

05/12/2019

So true!

One day they're born. And you feel like you have forever. Their little body fits into your lap, their hand tucked in yours, their head nestles into your shoulder. The years seem so many, the moments endless. It's this letting go. Don't fear it, don't hate it, don't love it. Accept it. This is why.

They grow. Oh sometimes it's subtle and sometimes it's crazy. A change here, some bravery there, but they don't stay small. They stop needing to hold your hand across the street and find friends and do daring things and read and grow up. The clothes are donated, the play food let go, the training wheels discarded, the new freedoms of growing up gained.

And then one day, they close the door and it is the last time. The last time home with you in it is, well, home. Tears. Of joy and sadness and celebration and "where in the world did time go?"

That little one who fit in your arms so tightly now is walking out, walking away, growing up. On their own.

Oh don't get me wrong - It will always be home. You are home for them. But it's not the same. Maybe we don't talk about that space - that growing up, letting go space - when our homes, instead of becoming noisier, become the opposite.

Quiet.

In life there is that moment, that gut-wrenching place of motherhood that is both bittersweet and joyful when that little one you raised leaves.

It is a fierce bravery to let them go. It's where we tuck back the tears and shout, "Way to go! You can do it!" But inside, sometimes we are whispering to ourselves the same thing.

You can do it. You can love and give and in it all let them go.

We all want it. We want them to be successful, to have a voice, to find love, to pursue their dreams. Childhood is this place of pushing them to be more and speak up and live.

And underneath it, tucked in all that growing is that sweet emotion of letting go.

They start out needing us so much. Feeding them and clothing them.Picking them up and helping with homework and dropping them off and teaching them to tie shoes or parallel park or how to multiply.

We go to sleep listening for them. For a cough, the door to open, for that whisper of "mom are you awake?" when we clearly weren't.

Letting go is the deepest love of all.

We don't cling so tightly because we want them to fly.

Yet our hearts switch between that pride of who they are and that longing of the years gone by.

Love them now, love them then, and love who they will become. The door will close, the bedrooms will change, the world we knew when we were the center will shift.

But we always be mom.

And that, that is something that will never be let go of.

From me. The mom learning to let go.

Holding her once little one in her arms.

~Rachel
#findingjoy
The Brave Art of Motherhood
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and Kindle for $1.99 until Mother's Day

05/12/2019

Climate Reality

Climate Reality

♪ Concrete jungle where dreams are made of. There's nothin' you can't do. ♫ (via World Economic Forum)

05/12/2019

ABC News

ABC News

Actress Alyssa Milano is calling for a sex strike to protest Georgia’s restrictive new “fetal heartbeat” law.

05/12/2019

ABC News

ABC News

"Saturday Night Live" debates what would cause Republicans to stop supporting Pres. Donald Trump.

01/31/2019

BarkBox

BarkBox

Here's a pile of cuddling Pit Bulls. You're welcome.

01/31/2019

Animal Planet's Too Cute

Animal Planet's Too Cute

First day of training for this seeing eye pup.

01/31/2019

Applications Due Friday For Paid Internships

Applications Due Friday For Paid Internships

The Port of Oakland is seeking people in a variety of fields including Aviation, Communications, Engineering, Governmental Affairs, etc.

01/30/2019

Pupflix

Pupflix

So SWEET! 😭❤ @henry_is_golden 🐶 #PUPFLIX

01/30/2019

Exclusive: Clemson’s Black Players Refused to Accept Donald Trump’s Invitation to the McCookout

Exclusive: Clemson’s Black Players Refused to Accept Donald Trump’s Invitation to the McCookout

When Filet-O-Fish aficionado Donald Trump invited the Clemson Tigers to enjoy the White House’s first Presidential Value Meal, most of Clemson’s national championship football team members jumped at the opportunity to meet the original cheeseburger-swallowing clown. But The Root has learned that...

01/03/2019

Dear All, we are simplifying our communications so we'll have all the news from Saidia in one place. Please like our page Friends of Saidia so that you can keep up to date with our news Friends of Saidia

12/29/2018

The Orphan Support League

Sweet sound of happy kids singing!

Merry Christmas from the children at Saidia Children's Home.

12/28/2018

Merry Christmas from Saidia

Merry Christmas from the children at Saidia Children's Home.

12/21/2018

Christmas wishes 2018

Happy Christmas from all the children and staff at Saidia Children's home. Featuring Joel, Jill, Joyce, Caroline and Wilson on wheelchair duty! www.orphansupportleague.org

12/21/2018

Saidia Orphanage

Happy Christmas to everyone from the wonderful children at Saidia. Here we have Joel, Joyce, Caroline and Jill with Wilson on wheelchair duty. Your support and love means everything. www.orphansupportleague.org

Happy Christmas and thank you to Caroline, Joel, Joyce and Jill (with Wilson on wheelchair duty). Thank you for all your support and enjoy our Christmas song. www.saidiacc.org

11/21/2018

The Orphan Support League

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. While you are prepping your turkey see this cute video of Faith and Susan who made mandazi (fried doughnuts) for us. Faith is now working in a restaurant and has graduated from Saidia. We bless and thank everyone for their support for these great young people. www.orphansupportleague.org

Faith makes the best mandazi at Saidia.

09/12/2018

Hope you can come to this if you are in the Piedmont area at the end of Sept.

08/09/2018

We are planning our annual get together in Piedmont, California on Thursday Sept 27th from 6-8pm. Briony Bax will be there to give updates on our work at Saidia Children's Home and you are all most welcome. Please email [email protected] for invite.

07/25/2018

The Orphan Support League

$25 dollars a month goes a long way in Kenya. We are truly making a difference for these children.

It is that time of year when we ask you to support our work at Saidia. For only $25 per month you can receive letters from the children and really feel a part of our community. It is easy to sign up at by using the donate button on our website. www.orphansupportleague.org

07/25/2018

The Orphan Support League | Raising Funds | Gilgil, Kenya

It is that time of year when we ask you to support our work at Saidia. For only $25 per month you can receive letters from the children and really feel a part of our community. It is easy to sign up at by using the donate button on our website. www.orphansupportleague.org