Sep 5, 2019 | Gifts-That-Grow
When Ilda’s youngest daughter was born, her head was swollen from fluid on the brain. Doctors placed a shunt inside the baby’s brain to help it drain, but because of her condition, she gets sick easily. Through Gifts-That-Grow, CAM’s clinic in Nicaragua provides Ilda...
Feb 28, 2019 | SALT Microfinance Solutions
My husband and I recently accompanied the SALT team to a microloan disbursement meeting in a poor neighborhood of Tipitapa, Nicaragua. This microloan group started when Juan, a man from this area, asked CAM for money for woodworking tools. Our staff told him why we...
Jan 11, 2019 | Medicines-for-Multitudes
When four-year-old Yeri first came to CAM’s Balm of Gilead clinic in Nicaragua, she was listless and could barely keep her eyes open. Her siblings, Yoselin and Yesner, were also sick. The clinic nurse gave Yeri and her siblings liquid vitamins, parasite treatment, and...
Aug 21, 2018 | Nicaragua-Adopt-A-Family
Paula’s husband left her, leaving the family with the struggle of putting food on the table. A bad case of arthritis hinders Paula’s work, but her handicapped daughter Rosa helps her. Though she is on crutches, Rosa washes clothes for people, which brings in about $4...
Mar 16, 2018 | Nicaragua-Adopt-A-Family
Caught in the crossfire of Nicaragua’s civil war in the 1980s, Guillermo (above) got shot and lost his left leg. He could have become bitter about his handicap, but he chose not to. He now reaches out to others and pastors a church. Recently Guillermo and his wife...
