Your Voice Can Change the World
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...Horn of Africa Crisis Continues
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...From the Field: A Day in Dadaab
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...Road to Dadaab
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...Famine Claims the Lives of Thousands
Today, my heart is heavy. Reports from the field and from our Director of Humanitarian Aid have confirmed my greatest fears about the famine in the Horn of Africa. Twelve million Somalis, Kenyans, and Ethiopians are starving due to the worst drought since the 1950s....
Every day, I try to live my life in such a way that I accomplish at least one thing that will outlive me and last for eternity.