Celebrate International Women’s Day by attending Elevate Her: Empower, Inspire, Achieve with the International Rescue Committee and Operation Smile on March 7!
Helping the poorest of the poor. Providing disaster relief, food, clothing, personal hygiene and education supplies. Meeting the most basic needs of severely suffering people.
Florida. Pakistan. The Horn of Africa. Ukraine. Afghanistan. If you’re keeping up with the news cycle, it seems like there’s a new emergency popping up at the forefront faster than we can even process the emergency that occurred before it. And with so many disasters happening around the world, it can feel flustering to decide when and where your gift can make the most impact. Investing in disaster preparation, recovery and resilience goes hand-in-hand with advancing other global causes such as health, education, economic development and more. Our charity partners Americares, Direct Relief, International Medical Corps, Matthew 25: Ministries, Mercy...
We left our home on the day when it all started. There was an explosion in our town at 5AM. We saw unpleasant things happening outside when we looked through the widow. We have two small children and we didn’t hesitate to start packing our stuff because we didn’t know what was going on. We drove for a day without stopping except at gas stations. We drove because the fighting was almost behind us. We were going to our friends’ town, but they called us and said that is was restless there and that there were shootings. We were confused because we no longer knew where to go. I remembered that my cousin lived in that region. We asked her if it was possible for us to come to her because we were exhausted. We needed to rest because it had been very difficult to spend a day in the...