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Angel, age 24 — first in his community to reach college

By on March 30, 2012 in Sponsor Impact

I was a sponsored child with Food for the Hungry. I grew up in the community of Saraxoch, in Guatemala. My parents never went to school, and they always struggled to find stable work, but they made my education a priority. That’s why I studied hard to prove to them that they were not wasting [...]

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Karate teacher strikes back against HIV/AIDS

By on January 11, 2012 in Sponsor Impact

This story comes from FH staff member Renee Targos. Through Food for the Hungry’s HIV/AIDS program in Haiti, people are winning the fight. Jure Gaston lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Once a physically strong man working as a karate teacher, Jure became so ill he was unable to stand. He didn’t understand what was happening to his [...]

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BACK TO HAITI — Pushing back AIDS in the midst of an emergency

By on December 21, 2011 in Disaster Relief, Sponsor Impact

As the second anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaches (Jan. 12), we’re taking a look at the work God accomplished through Food for the Hungry in the past year. This time last year, we reported how the earthquake made way for more HIV infections in Haiti because attention to HIV prevention and care was diverted [...]

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BACK TO HAITI — How to protect vulnerable girls from slavery

By on December 15, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

As the second anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaches (Jan. 12), we’re taking a look at the work God accomplished through Food for the Hungry in the past year. Only since 1982 have Haitian women been considered equal to their husbands in legal status (not subject to their husbands as minors) and allowed to own [...]

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BACK TO HAITI — Victories in clean water, health and hygiene

By on December 9, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

As the second anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaches (Jan. 12), we’re taking a look at the work God accomplished through Food for the Hungry in the past year. If you’ve been around FH for a while, you know we don’t give a lot of handouts because they’re simply not that helpful in the long [...]

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BACK TO HAITI — What if your child’s education cost 20-70% of your annual income? Would you still send him to school — could you?

By on December 7, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

As the second anniversary of Haiti’s massive earthquake approaches (Jan. 12), we’re taking a look at the work God accomplished through Food for the Hungry in the past year. I’m no math whiz. Trust me. But it’s not too hard to figure out why so many Haitian children go uneducated when school costs $75-250 a year, and [...]

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WORLD AIDS DAY–More people than ever are living with HIV. Why is this GOOD news??

By on December 1, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

Today is World AIDS Day – a day when the global community takes a hard look at the AIDS pandemic and our progress in defeating it. The United Nations said 2011 was a “game changing year” for the AIDS response (source). The good news is that fewer people are dying from HIV than ever before, meaning more [...]

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How a toilet can display the love of Christ

By on November 2, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

In the last Poverty 180: Water post, we saw the strong link between good hygiene, clean water and physical health. In discussions about clean water, improved sanitation is a major player. The World Health organizationdiscusses the two together and says that while safe drinking water is becoming more accessible worldwide, we still have a long way to [...]

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Americans with disabilities help send children in extreme poverty to school

By on October 22, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

In many cases, the only thing standing between children born into extreme poverty and their education is a simple set of school supplies. It’s not that poor communities don’t have school supplies; rather, they might cost the equivalent of one or two days’ work, and in that case, it’s easy to see why the poorest [...]

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The power of God’s Word heals families

By on October 7, 2011 in Sponsor Impact

“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Tim. 3:16-17). Ethel, Edwin and their three daughters might not be a whole family today, were it not for the Word of God being injected into [...]

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