A snapshot of water in Africa
Several years ago, the United Nations released an overwhelming statistic: women in Africa spend 40 billion hours a year collecting water. Yes, I said billion. That’s equivalent to the amount of time the population of France spends at their jobs every year. It’s no...
Refugee children in Uganda are starving
I knew my trip to serve South Sudanese refugees would be different from my other trips to refugee camps around the world. Still, I wasn’t prepared for what I saw. Hollow eyes. Large, protruding bellies. Children on the brink of complete starvation. To make matters...
Children are suffering — You can help
Can you see them — the thousands of children starving around the world today? Can you imagine the little girl in East Africa, sitting on the dusty ground … belly swollen from months without a proper meal? Or the mother in Yemen, staring at scraps of food, knowing...
Swollen bellies. Thinning hair. You can help end this starvation.
Swollen, protruding bellies. Thinning, brittle hair. Knobby knees and alarmingly thin limbs. No parent would ever want their child to be described this way. But for children around the world who are starving, the physical effects of malnutrition are all too real....
Help a child battling starvation
If you met a starving child today and you knew you had the means to save his life, would you do it? Today, it’s estimated that globally nearly 800 million people suffer from hunger and malnutrition. And in Africa, the hunger crisis is escalating at an alarming rate....
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