Children Find Safe Home At Orphanage

A new facility for endangered youngsters and orphans joins the Verbo family of children’s homes in Latin America. Located in Cuenca, Ecuador,  this outreach is called Family Health Foundation Children’s Home and opened with eight children, all from the same family.

Bob Capaldi, director of the Ecuadorian Verbo churches, says, “We are extending our social works into the area of rescuing kids from abuse and abandonment.”

The first eight siblings and their mother who didn’t have enough money to maintain them, were living in the streets when Verbo’s medical foundation attended to their physical needs and discovered a harrowing situation: An alcoholic father had habitually beat the family and sexually abused some of the children. The oldest daughter is pregnant by her father, Bob reports.

“We’re still in the process of legalizing the foundation,” he adds. “Once that’s done we will be able to take in more children from of dangerous home situations.”

The new house is a former private home that is being habilitated to accommodate children in a safe, clean environment. A former American Vineyard pastor and his wife who felt called to work with distressed children in Latin America and a Peruvian single women now a member of the Verbo Cuenca church are the first staff members.
“We covet your prayers for this project. Kids are easily forgotten here.” Bob concludes.