These children were living on the streets when the author met them and took them in, questioning how they could suffer and die that way. Most of the children supported by the church orphanage lost parents to genocide, disease, or poverty and had no family to care for them. The author was compelled to help after finding children sleeping in the abandoned church, and learning they survived by scavenging from trash. This is how the orphanage began, with the goal of caring for children who would otherwise suffer on the streets.