Heavy rain and mudslides are having deadly effects throughout Colombia, Peru and Ecuador. For weeks, these South American nations have been inundated with rainfall which has caused severe flooding and mudslides, affecting over 1 million people.
NIGERIA - According to Zainab Maina, onetime minister of Women Affairs and Social Development in Nigeria, “Several interrelated socioeconomic factors have led to poor economic status for a large segment of Nigerian women, such that 70 percent of people living below the poverty line are women.” She encourages all women and people living with disabilities to empower themselves in order to improve their economic status.
In recent years, World Renew’s Refugee Office has been flooded
In January, I spent a week on the east coast
The Ramos family lives in the community of Guacoca, Honduras. Anibal and Yadira, the father and mother, and their two children, Jose and Nayeli, are actively involved in the Sustainable Livelihoods program developed by World Renew’s partner Diaconia Nacional in the Olancho region. In particular, the Ramos family has been involved in sustainable agriculture training and has successfully implemented what they have learned through the program.
As part of their presentation, they sang a song with
In the past Sambath was an alcoholic. He was a
Now that the snow has finally melted, I am back on track with cycling on a more regular basis. Today, I managed to do about 35 kms. It felt like I was flying for the first half of the ride but the way back was tough going with a head-strong wind blowing at 32 km/h. My feet felt frozen after cycling for over an hour since the temperature was still only about 4 C and reaching home, they took about an hour to thaw. No wonder I’ve been thinking a lot about feet a lot lately!
Mrs. Keo lives in Vangsong village with her husband and their four children. She works hard each day, taking care of the young children and weaving skirts on a traditional homemade loom to earn some income for the family’s needs. Her husband works in the upland fields planting and harvesting rice for daily food consumption.
The fall armyworm is an invasive alien pest that has blighted much of southern Africa’s maize crop this year. Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi have all reported widespread outbreaks, and we have seen the trail of destruction throughout many of our program areas. The pest is not so much a worm as a caterpillar, and its common name derives from the way these invaders generally come in overwhelming numbers, giving the appearance of an army crawling and eating their way through a field.