On the Ground in the Philippines
Hello from Manila. After 21 hours of travel, I arrived
Hello from Manila. After 21 hours of travel, I arrived
(UGANDA) Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA) are not only contributing significantly to the economic improvement of communities in northern Uganda, they have also proved to be a great community support system that is helping to rebuild community life.
World Renew’s partner organization Pentecostal Assemblies of God — Kabale (PAG) has begun to promote conservation farming practices in two pilot communities through their agricultural field officer named Dan Byamukama. The conservation farming method taught by World Renew land PAG, called Conservation Agriculture (CA), provides a biblical basis for organic farm practices.
World Renew’s staff are always learning about new ways to use the huge diversity of assets the Lord put into his creation all around the world so that people experience the abundant life He intended for his people. Here are a couple of updates and some pictures of my latest learnings.
I am always intrigued by how much food is produced, with a Iittle bit of work in a field or garden, with some tiny seeds and God’s abundant blessings of sun and rain.
Typhoon Haiyan battered the country on November 8 and as
This is why World Renew is walking alongside communities that
"You outsiders cannot see any changes, but we know where we came from and where we are now."
Although I’ve worked in South Sudan (and in neighboring Sudan) for several years, the Yei area and the work of World Renew in this county were new to me when I arrived on August 12. I had flown from my home in the UK and met Ken Little from the World Renew Canada office at Cairo Airport. We then flew together to Juba, the capital of South Sudan.
The strongest typhoon in the world this year, and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land, battered the central Philippines on Friday, November 8, 2013. There are estimates that it could be the most damaging storm of the past century. World Renew is responding in cooperation with its local partners and the international network the Integral Alliance.