• Orphans are children whose parents have died. There are many such children around us. Orphaned children sometimes do not have an adult to take care of them.
• They may therefore lack food, shelter and clothing.
• In( Deuteronomy 26:12 )we are instructed, “Every third year, give as tithe a tenth of your crops to the Levites, the foreigners, the orphans, and the widows so that every community will have all they need to eat.” 
• God loves and cares for orphans. He is the Father of the fatherless.
• (James 1:27) says that God the Father considers taking care of orphans and widows in their suffering as pure and genuine religion.

What can we do to help the orphans?

1. Orphans need to be loved and appreciated.
2. Orphaned children are the responsibility of all of us in the society.Christians can support orphans by giving them food, clothes and shelter.
3. As Christians we can also help the orphaned by taking them to our homes and caring for them.
4. Christians can also provide orphans with guidance and counselling to help them grow up to be better people.
5. Christians have set up orphanages in various places in Kenya. Examples of these orphanages are St. Bernado’s and Mama Ngina Children’s Homes in Nairobi.