This guest blog is written by Elizabeth Smith, who went on a trip with our World Help team to Rwanda. In this post she shares her thoughts from her life-changing experience. I am hard-pressed to create a narrative that sufficiently captures my experiences in...
As we step into the month of April, we are faced with the anniversary of the atrocities that besieged Rwanda 18 years ago. In a matter of months, Rwanda’s world was drastically changed and would be forever changed. The people of Rwanda continue to grapple with...
Last Friday, I had the great privilege of speaking to 11,000 students at Liberty University’s very first convocation of the year. As with all my experiences speaking at my alma mater, the overwhelming energy of the student body gives me great hope for the next...
My experience at Dadaab refugee camp, as you will see in this video, rivals any humanitarian crisis I’ve ever witnessed. In a dusty haze that cloaked the entire camp in an eerie hue of red, I sensed helplessness; I saw hollow eyes and empty hands; I touched the sick...
Today, I spent the entire day at the Dadaab refugee camp on the Somali border. Now considered to be the largest refugee camp in the world, 25,000 people have already perished here, most of them being children. Perhaps one of the most tragic of these realities is that...
Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya now bears the grim title of the largest refugee camp on planet earth. Overcapacity and under-resourced, Dadaab is a virtual city of ramshackle tents as far as the eye can see. The rusty glow of dust covers the landscape in a haze that...