Archive | April, 2012

Empowering resource-poor families to send their children to school

By on April 30, 2012 in Sponsor Impact, Stories

They moved from their impoverished hometown to the crowded, almost-12-million-person capital city of Metro Manila in search of a better life. Finding Manila’s high cost of living too impossible, they moved again to San Roque, a coastal neighborhood about 10 miles outside the city. Settling there was illegal, but it was better than going all [...]

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Breaking the bonds of child slavery

By on April 26, 2012 in Church, Sponsor Impact

“The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners….”  Isaiah 61:1 She never smiled, talked or played. She never had [...]

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Caring for all of God’s creation

By on April 19, 2012 in World Poverty

Following the examples of Jesus, FH works with people of all faiths and backgrounds because we understand that all people are God’s creations. Likewise, we know the earth is God’s creation, and resource-poor communities are intimately connected to it. Here’s a glimpse of how we care for people by caring for the land on which [...]

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One in three people lives without a toilet

By on April 19, 2012 in Sponsor Impact

Some people consider toilets dirty — their germs dangerous. But others see them as icons of health that actually save lives. Today, a full 36 percent of the world’s population lives without a toilet, says the newest data from theWorld Health Organization. That’s one in three. This lack of sanitation is the primary cause of [...]

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All on their own — A family of HIV-positive AIDS orphans

By on April 13, 2012 in Sponsor Impact

It’s hard for me to imagine a situation more desperate than a child born with a deadly disease — the same disease that killed both her parents. At age 13, Mihiret assumed the role of mother over her two younger siblings aged 9 and 7. AIDS consumed both of these children’s parents, and all three [...]

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