History
Kids Alive International was founded in Shantung province, China in 1916, as the Home of Onesiphorus by Rev. Leslie and Mrs. Ava Anglin, who had arrived in China in 1910 as evangelical missionaries from the United States. The Home was created to accommodate the many homeless children in and around the city of Tai An. Following the change in China’s government in 1949, Kids Alive started a food and clothing distribution ministry for refugees in Hong Kong.
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