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IVO is becoming The Gem Foundation
We are excited to announce the two organizations are becoming one.
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Progress
International Voice of the Orphan History
2011
International Voice of the Orphan (IVO) is founded to address the orphan crisis.
2012
IVO begins feeding children of a leper colony in India.
2013
IVO sponsors first of many brain surgeries for children with special needs.
2014
IVO helps found The Gem Foundation to support orphans with special needs.
2015
IVO expands feeding to 4 more orphanages 2 in Sri Lanka and 2 in Uganda.
2016
IVO has taken 15 short term mission teams to Uganda to serve.
2017
IVO feeds over 1,000,000 meals to orphans & adds West Africa to the feeding program.
2018
IVO partners with TGF to build Gem Village, an entirely handicap-accessible village for the Gems.
2019
IVO narrows focus to advocate & support orphans with special needs.
2020
IVO feeds meal number 2,000,000.
2020
IVO merges with The Gem Foundation to better serve the special needs orphan!