What happens when you help rescue a child?
Hilda isn’t even 1 year old yet, but she’s already a warrior. She’s faced one of the biggest fights of her life. Severely malnourished and tiny for her age, Hilda was near death when she was brought to a Rescue Center. Thanks to the compassion and generosity of a...
You can be the answer to a mother’s desperate prayers
Pedro cries day and night. While most kids his age spend their days learning to walk, Pedro lies on his back, staring at the laminated roof of his family’s little adobe home. His body is constantly in pain, and his skin is inflamed with sores. He is weak, and if...
Rescuing a child can save a mother, too!
Claudine’s soft, baby skin had turned ashy. The 18-month-old’s thin limbs hung by her side. In their small home in Haiti, Claudine’s mother rocked her, trying to comfort her daughter’s weak whimpers. As she tenderly kissed her daughter’s cheek, Claudine’s mother knew...
Two months with almost no food
It’s not unusual for a baby to cry, but at two months old, little Mariela Lopez never stopped. She cried from the suffocating heat when the blazing Guatemalan sun beat down on the roof of her family’s mud house. She cried from exhaustion, unable to sleep through the...
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.