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Breaking Barriers in Burundi: Women Who Make It Happen
World Relief opened the door for women to lead and they said yes! Read how one woman in Burundi is building a more equal world and creating change for her entire community.
Read MoreCrisis in Sudan: Responding to Violence and Empowering Women
How World Relief has responded to violence in and empowered Women in Sudan
Read MoreSeeing the Gift in Women
World Relief’s commitment to Gender Equality
Read MoreHow it Started, How it’s Growing: World Relief Sacramento’s Welcome Club
World Relief Sacramento is creating welcoming communities for refugee youth through weekly Welcome Clubs
Read MoreGet to Know Our Staff: Kenya
In 2021, we’re giving you the inside scoop on the work that World Relief is doing in communities around the world through a new series called, Get to Know Our Staff…
Read MoreChange: Reimagining the Future for Families
This new year, we’re making space to reimagine the future and build a better world together. In the final post in our Made for Change series, Joanna Kretzer Chun and Debbie Dortzbach recount the way World Relief staff reimagined their approach to HIV prevention. This reimagining led to the creation of a new program known…
Read More2020: A Year in Review
Unprecedented. Painful. Chaotic. Uncertain. These are just a few of the words that I’ve heard to describe 2020. It’s true that the hardships and losses of this past year come to mind so easily. Yet, as I look back, so much good has also happened along the way. Hope. Love. Endurance. Generosity. Community. We saw…
Read MoreUnseen Hope
As we round the corner of 2020 toward the end of the year, we’re bringing you more made-for-change stories from across the World Relief community. Today, Amberle Brown, World Relief’s MEL Advisor and Disability Inclusion Focal Point at World Relief, shares her story of living with a disability and how God is using her experience…
Read MoreWhen Persistence Pays Off
Our refugee women’s English class had been in session for two weeks when they came, a couple from Afghanistan inquiring if there was room for one more. The husband asked if his wife could join too. The class was full, but our instructor added her name to our waitlist and promised to call if anything…
Read MoreWorld Relief Testifies in the Senate on U.S. Refugee Policy and Hong Kong Residents
December 16, 2020 CONTACT:Lauren Carllauren.carl@pinkston.co(703) 388-6734 BALTIMORE – Yesterday, Jenny Yang, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Policy at World Relief and co-chair of the Advocacy Committee of Refugee Council USA (RCUSA) testified before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration, for a hearing “Supporting Hong Kong’s Pro-Democracy Movement through U.S. Refugee Policy.” Jenny spoke…
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