transforming borkeda
Several years ago, Barbra Bhai painfully watched as her children walked down the road to their home, struggling to stand upright due to the weight of the jerry cans they carried. The children should have been in school, but instead they spent their days walking to the...Haiti’s Greatest Need
Last week, I was with a World Help team in Haiti, a nation still recovering from the devastating earthquake of January 2010. This natural disaster has produced some of the most complex and debilitating circumstances for a country already struggling under the weight of...bringing life to los jutes
Los Jutes, Guatemala Esvin Cortez worked long hours in order to provide for his family. But his income was meager, and he struggled to have enough money to make ends meet. There was no extra money for luxuries like new clothes or clean water. As a result,...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...
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.