International Women’s Day
By Larissa Peters, Asia Church Engagement Specialist at World Relief We don’t celebrate International Women’s Day in the United States, but my World Relief co-workers in Cambodia have a day off as the government has declared it a national holiday – a well-deserved one in my opinion. A little over a week ago, I attended…
Read MoreChin Refugees from Burma Seek Refuge in India
by Jenny Yang, Director of Advocacy and Policy at World Relief For years, I had heard that thousands of refugees from Chin State in Burma were fleeing into Mizoram State, India to escape persecution at the hands of the Burmese military regime. We heard these stories from the Chin people who were resettled to the…
Read MoreA Reflection
by Michele Breene, partner and friend of World Relief In January, my daughter and I traveled to Turkana, Kenya, a remote, semi-desert area in the northern part of the country. The capital, Lodwar, is a two-hour flight from Nairobi. Lokitaung, where we stayed, was another four-hour drive north. We went to Turkana in order to…
Read MoreWorld Relief Responds: Typhoon Sendong
From midnight on December 17, 2011 to dawn the next day, Typhoon Sendong swept through northern Mindanao in the Philippines. The resulting flash floods claimed more than 1,000 lives and left over 51,000 displaced persons regrouping in temporary evacuation centers. Most of these centers are in the city of Cagayan de Oro where World Relief…
Read MoreHaiti Now: This Feels Like Progress
Driving through Port-au-Prince after the earthquake on January 12, meant seeing every version of brokenness imaginable; collapsed buildings, flattened cars, and streams of people ready to tell their stories of loss. World Relief Haiti with its staff of over 40 national employees did not escape the trauma. Befriending the staff meant entering into their stories. …
Read MoreHuman Trafficking Awareness Day
The journey from trafficked to free is a unique narrative told differently for each individual. A quiet young woman sits nervously in a police station with a World Relief case manager by her side. Recently rescued from unimaginable horror as a victim of human trafficking, she rarely initiates conversation. In between interviews, law enforcement and…
Read MoreWorld AIDS Day 2011
Kandal Province, Cambodia: A sea of matching white hats filled the tent in Kohtaom District early this morning. More than 200 secondary school students dominated the crowd, and were joined by government officials, religious leaders, police, medical personnel and NGO representatives. They had gathered together to demonstrate the same message printed clearly on their red-ribbon…
Read MoreM. Chey – A Story of Transformation
M. Chey has witnessed Cambodia’s many changes over the past few decades, and his own story of transformation is a powerful witness to what the Lord can do with a committed life. As a young man, Chey says that Buddhist teachings showed him he was a sinner, but even though he prayed to the gods…
Read MoreNomadic Kenyans suffering from drought, famine
By Gabe LaMonica, CNN (CNN)–World Relief, a Christian evangelical aid organization, is collaborating with Kenyan churches and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to stem the tide of acute malnutrition across the northern region of Kenya called Turkana. Famine today “is rarely mentioned anymore,” said Don Golden, a senior vice president for World Relief based out of Baltimore.…
Read MoreListen and Respond
To see and understand the challenges facing the Turkana people of northern Kenya is difficult. They live in a harsh land that even in the best of times requires them to move over vast areas to find the scarce resources they need to feed themselves and their livestock. Today, for a multiplicity of reasons, this…
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