May 12, 2020 | Crisis Response
Elderly Romanians spend long days alone since the coronavirus pandemic. Many of them are cooped up at home. Last month, they were restricted to their homes except for two hours in the middle of the day. Now the restriction has lifted some, but elderly people may still...
May 11, 2020 | Rapid Response Services
The residents in Fort McMurray Alberta are devasted. It’s been only 4 years since the wildfires raged through their area, and now this spring, 13,000 residents were forced to evacuate as the Athabasca River overflowed. A massive ice jam measuring 24 km in length...
May 8, 2020 | Crisis Response
Two days of nonstop rain and wind in Egypt brought flash floods that wreaked havoc to impoverished villages in the Nile River Valley. The storm received the name Dragon Storm because of its fierceness. An elderly contact from the country said, “Egypt experienced a...
May 5, 2020 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
A SALT* savings group in Tanzania decided to start a beekeeping project since it doesn’t require a large investment and shows great potential. The group had little knowledge of beekeeping, so a member of another local SALT group helped them get started. They purchased...
Apr 30, 2020 | Crisis Response
Many Haitians aren’t strangers to hunger. Crisis after crisis has plunged the country deep into poverty, leaving one in three Haitians malnourished and unable to buy enough food. Lack of rain in the last five years caused a food shortage in Haiti and made food items...
Apr 27, 2020 | Water-for-the-World
Imagine what it would be like to drink water from a stagnant water hole, unfit even for bathing. Until recently, this was reality for a remote community in Cambodia. Funded by CAM’s Water-for-the-World program, a conservative Anabaptist group, Arising Light Asian...
