Earlier this year, after the earthquake struck Haiti, students of Arundel Elementary and Middle School in Baltimore, MD expressed interest in helping with the disaster relief. Soon after, the school introduced the ‘Growing Hope for Haiti’ campaign. The students […]
Jimmy Dodd recently forwarded this 8-minute NPR interview which features a team US medical professionals serving in post-quake Haiti. Like many American perceptions of the Third World, it opens with darkness. Widespread pain and poverty threaten to […]
Brothers John and Bill Snyder found The Global Orphan Project by accident and soon after made an earthquake relief trip to Haiti. When they returned to the states, John’s shared his experience with friends. […]
Earlier this summer, Alan Dietrich had a medical meeting in Haiti, which we hoped would help orphaned children receive more care. During the day, a brief comment was made about a prosthetics facility for amputees. “That’s a […]
The Lost Children of Haiti
July 11, 2010
60 Minutes rebroadcasts The Lost Children of Haiti and includes a new, short update on Renise. Scott Pelley reports on the most vulnerable victims of Haiti’s earthquake, children who not only […]
Around the 4th of July, we tend to think about freedom, and rightly so. Our Founding Fathers understood freedom. They knew freedom costs something. They knew that freedom is not doing whatever we want, whenever we […]
“Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” Proverbs 31:8-9
Neva Bartelt is nine years old. She lives in Lenexa with her parents and two little brothers, Lincoln and Rowan. A year ago […]
Mike and Beth Fox – Joy Through a Different Currency
In the case of Beth and Mike Fox, the ability to survive personal hardships opened the doors to new careers, relationships and the clarity to find a way to express […]