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...
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, 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....
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....
May 2020. Where will you be in three years? For thousands of starving children around the world, the answer is an early grave. One in nine children living in sub-Saharan Africa will die before his or her fifth birthday … most from hunger. As famine sweeps across...
My trip to Africa this past week marks 30 years since I first stepped foot on this beautiful continent. I’ve been back to Africa many times since — traveling to several different countries and villages. But one of my favorite places to visit will always be Rwanda....