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What we’re about
Empowering compassion. Since 1993 we’ve been empowering locally-led, mercy-based programs in the developing world.
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Who we help
We serve orphans, child labor victims and young trafficking survivors through 9 resident-care homes and 15 education centers in Asia and Africa.
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Why we’re different
Rather than spending precious resources deploying Western workers, we’re empowering existing local leadership with funding, oversight, and small business development.
Recent Stories
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Every egg counts: how your support of our Cebu farmland enterprise is transforming lives and preventing trafficking in the Philippines
Our executive director, Kirby Trapolino, just returned from an 18-day trip to visit our teams in South Asia and the Philippines. In Manila, he completed his 10th 24 Hour Project photography challenge, capturing the city’s life hour by hour for 24 hours straight. Meeting hundreds of children on his walk through Manila’s shanty towns, he […]
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Celebrating Success: an encouraging roundup of summer updates from our programs
As we transition into the fall season, we wanted to share an encouraging roundup of summer updates from our programs…. Uganda We’re gearing up for our biggest 3rd semester ever at our Uganda boarding high school and rural primary school with 1,038 students! We now have close to 400 orphans in full-time residential care between […]
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Together, we are breaking the cycle of trafficking and poverty: back-to-school fully funded for our India and Philippines students
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, coupled with a little support from our emergency fund, we were able to fully fund our India and Philippines back to school needs for the 2024-25 school year. This included 23 college scholarships for our graduated India orphans for the entire school year! We just received some photos […]
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Then and now: see the transformation of girls in our India program from orphans to college students
Do you miss old-school photo albums? It’s so easy to go to the bookshelf, pick one up and instantly go back in time. In our digitized age, it’s become more difficult to organize our thousands of photos and we often lose track of old photos stored on various backup drives if we haven’t printed them. […]
Where we work
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India
India: 440 million children, 60 million in child labor, 5 million in child slavery
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Myanmar
Myanmar: 14.6 million children, 5.1 million in child labor, 134,000 in child slavery
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Nepal
Nepal: 10 million children, 2 million in child labor, 20,000 in child slavery
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Philippines
Philippines: 33 million children, 5.5 million in child labor, 100,000 in child slavery
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She Has Hope
An initiative of Peace Gospel in response to human trafficking.
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Uganda
Uganda: 19 million children, 2 million in child labor, 42,000 in child slavery
Did you know?
We have achieved Platinum level status (the highest level) with Candid, the premier source for nonprofit information and transparency.
We have also been honored with a Top-Rated Award from GreatNonprofits, and we are rated as a 4-star charity on Charity Navigator.
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