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Double your impact: $110,000 matching fund to boost orphan and survivor programs worldwide
As we enter the holidays, it’s with great joy and gratitude that we reflect on the journey we’ve shared this year. Your support has been the lifeblood of our efforts, reaching out to at-risk children and survivors across continents. In Uganda, we’ve nurtured over 1,000 young minds daily, providing them with education and care. In
Meet Ruby: our inspiring child of the year for 2024!
Today, we’re excited to introduce you to our 3rd Annual “Child of the Year,” Ruby; she’s a beacon of hope and resilience, whose journey with us underscores the transformative impact of your generosity. Meet Ruby, our Child of the Year for 2024! Ruby, now a vibrant 9-year-old, resides at our main campus orphan home in
Celebrate Thanksgiving season with this bountiful harvest of smiles from our 10 favorite farmland photos
We’re coming up on our favorite holiday of the year, Thanksgiving. It has us thinking of gratitude, harvests, cooler temperatures, fall foliage, and the gathering of family and loved ones praying around a bountiful feast. Speaking of gratitude… The four of us here in our Houston office, along with our global 158 field staff and
October highlights: see the joy and hope you’ve brought in the lives of children in our roundup of photos from the field
As the leaves change and another month drifts by, your unwavering support continues to be the cornerstone of hope for the children under our care. Each day, thanks to you, we witness smiles, growth, and dreams beginning to flourish among these young lives being touched. We’re excited to share with you some October highlights captured
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
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
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
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.
On a typical day in our programs, many “overnight” successes revealed from Uganda to the Philippines
The concept of time zones is fascinating, wondering what is going on in any part of the world at a given time. When we’re waking up, is Beijing getting ready for bed? What happened in Rome while we were sleeping? For our recent gala, our team pulled up some stats to talk about what happens
8th Annual “A Taste of Hope” Gala Celebrates 31 Years of Lives Changed by Your Generosity
We were so very encouraged by our 8th annual “A Taste of Hope” gala held on April 18th. What an amazing celebration of 31 years of rescued lives and of your generosity in action. God miraculously provided over $105,000— exceeding the amount raised at our 2023 gala! A huge thank you if you were involved