They came to the orphanage without parents. As of the night of Aug. 2, they were homeless, too. The only orphanage supported by a U.S. nonprofit in the conflict-devastated Jos area of Plateau State in Nigeria has been destroyed, but the staff and children are safe, according to Rev. William Murray, founder of the Religious Freedom Coalition. “The 147 kids were evacuated to Jos,” said Murray, whose organization “has been financing the Binta orphanage for 10 years.” In a video, Murray said many of the kids had been orphaned by previous Boko Haram and Fulani attacks, and now are spread out among individual homes in Jos. With all of the orphanage’s buildings destroyed, Murray said emergency funding is needed to take care of the children and rebuild the orphanage. The children were among the 25,000 Plateau residents displaced from Miango and the vicinity, located northwest of Jos, Plateau State’s capital, by …
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