West Michigan Family Gets Help Following Tornado
After an EF-1 tornado traveled 6.5 miles through communities south
Improving Pastoral Livelihoods in Somaliland
For the next three years, World Renew and its local partner World Concern are combating food insecurity by helping 2,000 families (14,000 individuals) through a variety of programs.
And I Know He Watches Me
Words from Betty Bartlett’s favorite song ring true each and
Yolanda Was A Thief, But Faith Kept Us Strong
As we come to the end of our four-month IRM assignment in the Philippines, there is wonderful news. The World Renew house design was approved and signed off by a structural engineer, to withstand 250 km/hr winds and zone 4 earthquakes.
World Renew Responds to Grand Rapids, Michigan Area Tornado
World Renew is responding in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, metro area where an EF-1 tornado touched down and traveled through a southern suburb at around 10:30 p.m., Sunday, July 6. Early Response Coordinators, Rich and Pat Grasman, were deployed by the agency’s Disaster Response Services (DRS) Monday morning to meet with local officials including the Wyoming Chief of Police, as well as the Kentwood Emergency Manager, and to talk with affected residents.
A Precious Bag of Arrowroot
(KENYA) This week I accompanied Nema Aluku, World Renew's Program Manager for Health and HIV in East and Southern Africa, and Naomi to do a mid-term evaluation on the "HIV Control and Reproductive Health Enhancement Project" in Ng'enda. Depending on the temperamental Kenyan traffic, Ng'enda is about an hours drive from Nairobi.
Final Farewell from the Philippines
(PHILIPPINES) We want to give you our ‘Final Beneficiary Story’, but we find that impossible. Each story that we have observed in the people around us is one that is ongoing. The lives of those we have been working with are evolving; these communities are being metamorphosed into places where individuals have dream, hope and a future. We can only give a glimpse into some of their lives so that you, for a moment, can see the changes that are taking place.
World Renew Fights Poverty at Home and Abroad with Sea to Sea 2013 Funds
Sea to Sea 2013 raised $917,118 to support the work
Ron Willett Named Director of World Renew Disaster Response Services
Today, Ronald Willett begins his tasks as director of Disaster Response
Update: Disaster Response in Nebraska, Iowa, and Florida
World Renew Disaster Response Services (DRS) is focusing its response to several disasters this week after tornadoes and severe storms hit neighborhoods in a half-dozen U.S. states during the week of June 9, 2014.