From selling burgers on the street … to starving at home
Rajinder seemed to have it all: A loving wife. Four studious daughters. A thriving business. He worked as a food vendor in South Asia, selling burgers to hungry customers. Every day people would walk over on their lunch breaks or at dinnertime to grab a quick bite off...
Motherhood & COVID-19
Motherhood these days feels more like mastering the entire range of circus acts in The Greatest Showman … simultaneously. My teenage son asked me a simple question early on in this crisis, “Mom, why do you make that face every time you say my food is ready?” … my...
Orphans in Uganda survived war. Will they survive the coronavirus?
“What’s happening is people are starving. There’s a panic among the people.” Our partners in Uganda recently shared an update on the coronavirus … and the picture they painted is grim. Businesses closed. Schools canceled. Markets depleted of food. Church buildings...
When Plans A, B, and C have all failed …
Plans A, B, and C have all failed Reena. She’s jobless and unable to send any money back to her widowed mother and two disabled siblings on the other side of India. If anyone were able to get a job right now, you’d think it would be Reena. She just completed nursing...
Worst case: ‘Another generation of children who are orphaned’
“COVID-19 poses an especially large risk for the vulnerable children whose mothers, fathers, or guardians already have weakened immune systems,” one of our partners in Africa said. “If it impacts our nation, there will likely be another generation of children who are...
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.