Stories from the Field
Food and Love for Our Neighbors
Local ministries are reaching out to the abandoned and ignored in the United States with food and community.
Every Friday, World Challenge’s partners in Florida, Sharing Hope, prepare lunches and pack bags of groceries with canned goods, fruit, vegetables, bread and pastries. They also prepare 50 bags of children’s lunches with hot dogs, juice, fruit and other goodies.
A War Against Drugs in Russia
Those struggling with addiction in one of the largest countries on earth often feel they have nowhere to turn for help.
Russia is plagued by a quiet killer.
The country has one of the world’s fastest-growing drug trafficking and abuse problem, and the government has very little in the way of real treatment programs available.
Making a Safe Haven
World Challenge partners in Albania help one Roma woman with a disability find a new home after she was the victim of a crime.
The Roma community in Europe is often classified as the most economically depressed.
Agape: The Highest Form of Love
In the middle of fear and hunger, a team in Kenya are working to help children, preserve the future generation and show them God’s faithful compassion.
The Horn of Africa is teetering on the verge of famine, brought on by severe drought which is now leaving people to watch their crops fail and cattle die.
Refugees in Algeria
Building Wells and Unity
Brazil’s drought-stricken regions are experiencing new life through the hard work of World Challenge’s partner.
A lack of water affects everything in a community from basic health and sanitation to education and employment.
Clean water, as a basic human need, is foundational to building healthy communities. Meeting the physical need for water opens doors for people to receive what they thirst for most: living water.
Preventing Child Marriage in Bangladesh
World Challenge workers are helping families protect their young daughters from cultural pressure to marry too early.
According to the Human Rights Watch, “Bangladesh has the highest rate of child marriage of girls under the age of 15 in the world, with 29 percent of girls in Bangladesh married before age 15…”
A Revolution in Burundi Churches
Cambodia’s God of Life and Peace
After the horrific atrocities inflicted by the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia’s people are looking for the author of healing and new life.
The Khmer Rouge was one of the most brutal episodes in human history.
Communist dictator Pol Pot decided, in the wake of the Vietnam War, that Cambodia needed to become a socialist paradise, independent from all outside influences.