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The Oven of the World — Food Crisis in Turkana North

It is hard to imagine a more isolated, inaccessible or hostile terrain than Turkana North, right up on the Kenyan border with Ethiopia, where World Relief is the only international NGOs to have a permanent presence in many parts of the region. “The oven of the world—even the stones on the ground are blackened by…

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Thank God for Women — Heroes in the Fight for Justice

Thank God for Women is a blog series rooted in gratitude for the strength, courage, and incredible capacity women demonstrate.  A few years ago, a dear friend gave me a book titled, Women Are Heroes. It is filled with beautiful portraits and stories of women around the world whose very existence is heroic. I flip through…

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Thank God for Women — The Village Nearby

  Thank God for Women is a blog series rooted in gratitude for the strength, courage, and incredible capacity women demonstrate. The Village Nearby is an chapter from The Mother & Child Project: Raising our Voices for Health and Hope—compiled by Hope Through Healing Hands’ Faith-based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide.  Deborah Dortzbach…

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Thank God for Women — Saving Funds and Communities

Thank God for Women is a blog series rooted in gratitude for the strength, courage, and incredible capacity women demonstrate.   As a pastor’s wife in rural Kenya, Elizabeth Ewoton saw glaring financial needs all around her community. She decided to lead by example, using her influence to mobilize 15 local women to join a…

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Thank God for Women — Defiant Love

Thank God for Women is a blog series rooted in gratitude for the strength, courage, and incredible capacity women demonstrate.  Six years ago, I was sitting at a small, unsteady table, in a room that was oppressively hot. Aamiina, a young refugee woman sat across from me. A few months prior to that, the word…

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