There’s an old saying that goes, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” While it is important to meet people’s immediate needs, your gifts in 2018 also helped invest in the financial, social, and physical...
Charity sat at home alone and wondered if she’d ever be able to support herself financially. With no job, no skills, and no education, she felt like her life was void of purpose. Every day the hours passed slowly as Charity tried to fill her time with something...
Kevin ran her fingers over her siblings’ tattered clothing as she fumbled crude stitches into the patches of the worn fabric. Her mother was out looking for food to bring home for the five of them. Since the death of her father in the Ugandan war, Kevin feared her...
You learned many fundamental lessons as a child — treat others the way you want to be treated, always be honest, accept consequences for your actions. If you were in Girl Scouts or Boy Scouts, you were probably taught to leave every place better than you found it. At...
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....