With your generous support, we are able to help provide for tangible and long-term improvements in the lives of child refugees and orphans in developing nations and Eastern European areas devastated by poverty, fragile social infrastructure, natural disasters, and armed conflicts. We work with non-government organizations to deliver humanitarian relief; provide medical services; build and fund quality, private orphanages; and facilitate adoption for children awaiting placement with US families. We invite you to learn more about the work we do on behalf of the world's children. Please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to World Child Foundation.

he quality of mercy is not strained: It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway: It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.           -- William Shakespeare,              The Merchant of Venice (spoken by Portia)