Sponsors are heroes! Ask any child in the World Help Child Sponsorship Program and they will tell you with a beaming smile. Without a doubt, a sponsor’s investment goes far beyond $35 a month. Sponsorship provides impoverished and disadvantaged children with the...
Valentines Day. Let’s be honest, there’s a mix of emotions with this holiday: Some of us look forward to it and some of us . . . not as much. Every February 14, we’ve grown accustomed to witnessing declarations of love in all sorts of ways: on candlelit tables for...
“Dreaming? That’s for children. I stopped doing that when I was 5,” a victim of human trafficking told our partner Bonita Thompson, founder of the Home of New Beginnings in Thailand’s red light district. It was clear the effects of poverty and oppression extended far...
We are trying to survive, but we are still in a shock about our situation. We are afraid of the winter as we are sleeping on the ground and the weather is very extreme here. Our lives depend entirely on God and other people. –Fahad, age 16, refugee from Mosul, Iraq...
The streets of Kigali, Rwanda, once bore witness to 100 days of systematic slaughter that ended the lives of an estimated 1 million people. Children left behind after the 1994 genocide, and those born soon after, emerged into a new Rwanda saturated by trauma, grief,...
Today, there are 35 million people in our world living with HIV/AIDS, including 3.2 million children . . . The brunt of the crisis largely affects sub-Saharan Africa, and the fallout has been absolutely devastating. HIV/AIDS stifles economies, limits educational...