Bottles, Stamps, and Piggy Banks
These are the kinds of gems we hear about, and
These are the kinds of gems we hear about, and
Can you imagine the upheaval of being forced to leave everything familiar—friends, family, and all that gives you comfort—for a completely foreign environment? And even though years pass, you are still unable to return home. Before you were forced to move you had a steady income and were able to provide for your family. Now you don’t know if you’ll even have enough for your next meal.
Creation Care is an important part of World Renew’s work
This was my 8th trip to Nepal. On this visit, it was great to see the World Renew staff again. I had the opportunity to have one-on-ones with the longest serving staff. It was amazing to see the fruit of their labour as they have worked so hard to overcome many different challenges and barriers. What a dedicated group! Their hearts are really committed to helping their brothers and sisters of Nepal, not just working for World Renew. I am blessed to have their dedication and commitment.
We recently conducted a year-end evaluation of our HIV Innovation project in Malawi to learn more about the impact of our project working with young girls engaged in transactional sex.
Conflict in Nigeria, South Sudan, Somalia and Yemen has resulted in over 20 million people facing severe hunger. In parts of north-central South Sudan, famine has been declared. This is the first famine that has been declared since 2011, when a quarter of a million people died during a famine in Somalia.
“I held on all night. I was afraid I would be swept away,”said David, a flood survivor from Louisiana, to a World Renew Disaster Response Services (DRS) volunteer conducting a needs assessment.
Returning to the island of Panay, in central Philippines, it was great to see the World Renew project running so well since my last visit in October 2016. It’s very rewarding to see the results after all the hard work of planning, proposal writing and reporting that I do much of the time.
Two years ago, when Ou Sam Art learned about village
This week we travel 12,000 km to Nazaret, a community in north-eastern Nicaragua. Lucia Méndez, a mother of four, is part of World Renew’s food security project in Nazaret, in partnership with Accion Médica Cristiana (AMC) and the Canadian Foodgrains Bank. Through this project, Lucia is learning how to rotate crops, make better use of her land, and prepare her own organic fertilizers, compost and pesticides.