Global Hope built its first children’s home in Arad, Romania in 1999. Several other homes were added to care for children, but over the years Global Hope transitioned many of the children to foster families. Today one children’s home, Ana’s House, remains. Ana’s House provides a family like environment for seven children.

Over the years, 24 children, have grown, thrived and blossomed in Ana’s House.  Twenty-four individuals who began life as orphaned or abandoned children are now living full lives, attending college, working, building homes, raising families and living faith filled and Christ guided lives.

In 2021 we began our support of the House of Joy (right) in Cornatel, Romania.  There are several sets of siblings living together at this home. Most of the kids in this home are teenagers, and many of them are from the Roma gypsy culture.  In several of the cases these kids have been abandoned by their families who will not acknowledge them and don’t want to have any relationship with them.  Global Hope support is giving them a safe place to live, a good education and a loving support system.  The kids report that they consider their House of Joy “siblings” to be their family. 

In the Spring of 2022, Global Hope opened a new children’s home called Nehemiah House.  Located in the small village of Prod, Romania, Nehemiah House has become home to 23 children from an orphanage in Kyiv, Ukraine who were forced to flee their home in early March 2022.  Amid bombing and fighting in the streets, the children were evacuated, placed on a train, and sent south to Romania — there they were given safe shelter.  We are grateful that God has given us the opportunity to care for these precious children during a time of great upheaval in their lives.

In 2012, Global Hope expanded again in Kenya by partnering with Spring Valley Children’s Center, located in the center of a slum called Spring Valley. The Center began in 1999 by a pastor and his wife when they became aware of the extreme hardship in this community. The poverty in the area was so high that a hundred children were dying annually of starvation, water borne diseases and HIV complications. The Center began as a place where children could come to get free food. It grew to a Center that now offers food, education, spiritual development and dormitories for children at high risk for such things as abuse, prostitution and trafficking, and recruitment to gangs or terrorist groups. Today, over 375 children are getting their physical needs met while also receiving an excellent education.

After working in India for a year, Global Hope was introduced to the John Foundation in the city of Hyderabad. This ministry started in 2007 by Saji John and his wife, Cynthia, with a passion to care for hurting and broken people, including abandoned children. Today, the John Foundation has helped rescue over 200 children by partnering with different organizations to build children’s homes. Global Hope has established seven homes through the John Foundation: Hope Girls’, Hope Boys’, Prema Girls’, Daniel Boys’, Joshua’s Boys’, Esther Girls’ and Ruth Girls’ Homes.  Each home has ten children who have been rescued from desperate situations. The children are cared for by Christian house moms who ensure these homes are safe, healthy places to live, learn and grow.