Mar 4, 2021 | Coronavirus Crisis Care
Nearly a year ago we started hearing about a virus making its way through Asia. All of us hoped this crisis would come and go quickly, like most do. Little did we know that a year later the suffering would still be ravaging the world, in some places more than ever...
Mar 2, 2021 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
Francis and Grace are members of a SALT savings group in Ghana. To provide for their children, they grow cocoa, palm nuts, plantains, and tomatoes. They grow a wide variety of crops to make good use of every season and kind of weather. “When the palm nuts are out of...
Mar 1, 2021 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
SALT is starting savings groups in an unusual setting—a village of refugees who recently fled their homes due to violence in western Myanmar. These refugees are part of the Mro people ethnic group. These people, primarily village farmers, are stranded. They have not...
Feb 26, 2021 | International Crisis
“I was displaced from my city and my family was in dire need of food,” shared Fariha,* a mother in Yemen. “We live in a difficult condition due to the war, the economic situation, and the outbreak of diseases and epidemics in our country.” Long-standing conflict...
Feb 25, 2021 | Hope-for-the-Handicapped
Martha Espinoza fell off a moving train when she was seven years old. As this Nicaraguan girl lay helplessly on the tracks, the train ran over her, dismembering all four of her limbs. After our staff delivered a new wheelchair to forty-two-year-old Martha, she shared,...
Feb 19, 2021 | International Crisis
Conflicts in Armenia and Azerbaijan, Ivory Coast, and Ethiopia have brought a surge of refugees seeking safety for themselves and their families. Innocent people—parents, children, and the elderly—have fled their homes, bringing little with them. Many depend entirely...
