In the developing world, the process of gathering water can seem like something out of a scary movie — a journey fraught with danger, uncertainty, and terrifying obstacles. When I’m thirsty, I don’t think about how I’m going to get water. I just walk over to the sink...
Cyrus walked over to the wide-eyed baby boy at the Rescue Program in Uganda and spotted a piece of paper next to his crib: Abandoned. “What is his name?” Cyrus asked. “Moses,” the staff worker told him, smiling. “It means blessing.” Even though Moses had been...
War seems so clear-cut in our history books. We’re given an exact start date and an exact end date and told that everything that matters happened in between. There may be a chapter or two dedicated to the causes that led up to the war, but we rarely get more than a...
Today is World AIDS Day, a day we unite to stand with those affected by this global pandemic. Although the HIV virus was unheard of until a few decades ago, more than 34 million people worldwide now suffer from it. The majority of those who are HIV-positive live in...
When Juliette was a young girl in Uganda, only a few children in her village could afford to go to school … she wasn’t one of them. Her family had suffered under the weight of poverty for generations, and without an education, she saw no hope of escaping this cycle....