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Iraq

Iraq

Insaf Safou is an Iraqi-Canadian woman whose heart breaks for the devastation that has been taking place in her homeland of Iraq at the hands of the...
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Jordan

Jordan

A photo of a three-year-old boy washed up on a beach captured the world’s attention last week. His senseless death made us all suddenly aware of plight...
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Lebanon

Lebanon

A photo of a three-year-old boy washed up on a beach captured the world’s attention last week. His senseless death made us all suddenly aware of plight...
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Myanmar

Myanmar

Millions in India and Myanmar have been displaced due to heavy rain and flooding. World Renew is responding.

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Nepal

Nepal

A powerful earthquake hit Nepal and northern India on Saturday killing more than a thousand people and setting off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest....
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Syria

Syria

A photo of a three-year-old boy washed up on a beach captured the world’s attention last week. His senseless death made us all suddenly aware of plight...
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United States

United States

This Christmas was difficult for many people in Texas and Mississippi. Instead of a joyful celebration and exchanging gifts in the comfort of their...
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Bangladesh

Bangladesh

It is late in the afternoon. Hanif is not yet home, older daughter Mim is in school and younger daughter Mohona is having a nap. Shahanaj finished all...
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Cambodia

Cambodia

Forty percent of the population of Cambodia is defined as “near poor” meaning that they would fall back into absolute poverty with an income loss of...
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Canada

Canada

Lawrence Caberra immigrated to Canada from the Philippines in 2008. In 2013, he purchased a home for his family in High River, Alberta.

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Central African Republic

Central African Republic

Insecurity is growing in a nation already plagued by poverty. The Central African Republic is a land-locked country in Central Africa where more than 60...
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Ethiopia

Ethiopia

CRWRC is expanding its drought response efforts in Ethiopia.

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Guatemala

Guatemala

In a remote village in rural Guatemala, 18-year-old Ines and her family were struggling to get by. “We are fortunate when we can eat twice a day, but...
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Haiti

Haiti

“My heart is heavy because I will be leaving a country that became my second home, a team that I considered my family, and a community of people that touched my life so much,”...

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Honduras

Honduras

In June 2012, a group from Inglewood Christian Reformed Church in Edmonton, Alberta, travelled to the small village of La Avispa, Honduras. Their goal...
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India

India

Millions in India and Myanmar have been displaced due to heavy rain and flooding. World Renew is responding.

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Indonesia

Indonesia

“My family and I received the support we needed to begin my recovery,” said Zubaidah, a 31 year-old wife and mother of two young boys in Kala Ketol...
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Japan

Japan

On December 7, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake hit the same Japanese coast devastated by March 2011’s 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami. While the latest earthquake only generated...

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Kenya

Kenya

What do mangoes have to do with justice? In the past year, these delicious tropical fruit have become a powerful symbol, thanks to an innovative program...
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Laos

Laos

Walking up a mountainside in the early morning mist in Laos, you may be greeted with a friendly Hmong phrase “Nyo ko tue,” which means “where are you going?” It is a question that...

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Liberia

Liberia

The Ebola crisis of 2014 was the most deadly outbreak of this disease in recorded history. By August 8th 2014, it had reached such large numbers of...
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Madagascar

Madagascar

Walk across the newly planted peanut fields about a kilometer out of the town of Sakaraha, Madagascar and wade through a muddy stream and you will soon...
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Malawi

Malawi

Recently, Begom saved the life of a newborn child in Bangladesh. While amazing in and of itself this fact becomes truly mind-blowing when you realize...
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Mali

Mali

"It was approximately one year ago, at around eight in the morning on a Saturday when the war reached Gao," one Malian woman explained as the...
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Mexico

Mexico

Mexico’s Gulf and Pacific coasts have been hit by two tropical storms, Ingrid and Manuel, which damaged 1.5 million homes in 22 out of 32 states, flooded cities and washed out...

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Mozambique

Mozambique

Did you know that 805 million people in our world experience hunger on a long-term basis?

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Nicaragua

Nicaragua

When it rained on August 26 in Nicaragua, it wasn’t just a gentle patter of raindrops. Over the course of a little more than an hour, more than five...
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Niger

Niger

On January 16, the long legacy of relative peace between the 90-99% of Niger’s Muslim population and the small Christian population was broken by...
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Nigeria

Nigeria

Seventeen-year-old Alice* lives in rural Nigeria. Her story is one of great hardship—but it also one of finding new hope in a time of suffering.

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Pakistan

Pakistan

It’s raining. It’s pouring.This time of year marks the rainy season in many parts of the world, and while farmers in Latin America are grateful for rains that have finally broken...

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Philippines

Philippines

World Renew has been responding to super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines since November 2013. While this initial response was expected to conclude in December

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Senegal

Senegal

When video footage surfaced of NFL player Ray Rice assaulting his wife, viewers were shocked. The public outcry was fierce. But similar scenarios play...
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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone

The Ebola crisis of 2014 was the most deadly outbreak of this disease in recorded history. By August 8th 2014, it had reached such large numbers of...
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Somaliland

Somaliland

Fadumo Awii Salah lives in the village of Fadhigab in Somaliland with her ten children. Somaliland is an independent state in the “Horn of Africa” near Ethiopia and Somalia....

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South Sudan

South Sudan

“They were on the run… searching for a place to hide, trying to think of somewhere near, running, desperate for a safe haven, carrying only what could...
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Tanzania

Tanzania

In Tanzania, around 80% of the population is involved in agriculture for their income. Sadly, many farmers are earning less and less from their crops...
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Uganda

Uganda

For many people in Eastern Africa, the availability of food is directly related to the weather. When the rains come on time and in the right amounts,...
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Ukraine

Ukraine

When a small group of university students began protesting a sudden move by Ukraine’s government away from an association agreement with the European Union and towards a closer...

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Zambia

Zambia

Going to the bank is one of the mundane chores that we in the developed world often take for granted. When we find the house or car we like, we go to...
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