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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
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
You’re making a difference: see the fruits of your generosity in these recent 15 photos from our programs
In our fast-paced world of constant media bombardment and email inboxes on overload, it’s hard to know where to strike the balance between long-form reports and more visual digests. So today, to change things up a bit, we bring you a photo-report consisting of very recent shots from our programs! We hope you’ll enjoy seeing
Miraculous news thanks to donor generosity: Uganda and Cebu dreams are now a reality!
We’re honestly so happy to share this update. In our last newsletter we had informed our followers that we didn’t quite reach our year-end goal and that the Uganda land purchase would have to wait. Well, in a miraculous turn of events, someone who read that email felt moved to donate the full amount needed
Celebrating the incredible impact you’ve made for women and children this year with our top ten field-submitted photos of 2023
As is our tradition, we’re closing out the year by sharing our favorite field-submitted photos we feel summarize the spirit of what we’ve achieved together with your support over the past 12 months. Let’s take a look! 10. We start our countdown to our favorite field-submitted photo of 2023 with this wonderful image depicting your
2023 Impact Report highlights over 1 million meals served, more than 1,500 women and children receive rehabilitation, nutrition, education
Today we are happy to reflect on this past year and share with you what we’ve achieved together— 2023 has been a year of growth and success, while we’ve also continued to battle many challenges abroad due to political instabilities. We were especially happy to welcome so many new friends into our community of support
End-of-year goals aim to fulfill time-sensitive opportunities in Uganda, support Philippines girls home, replenish emergency fund
Today, we are announcing that with your support we can reach our goal to fulfill many long-awaited needs in our Uganda and Philippines programs as well as replenish our global emergency fund after a challenging year. First, we’d like to take you to rural Uganda, where we’ve been working with our local team for 14