Reports

For children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Zambia during the 1990s and early 2000s, the lack of access to a school adds significantly to their challenges. Communities all across Zambia have come to the aid…

Imagine you’re a teenager in Burundi, a landlocked little country in Central Africa and one of the world’s poorest nations. In Burundi, more than 80 percent of citizens live in poverty, and around you, people are…

By Jennifer Brookland Winnie the Pooh was on to something. Anyone who has squeezed a chunk of fresh honeycomb and tasted the golden sugary ooze would agree that getting one’s head stuck inside a pot is well…

The village of Beshera Chafa in Ethiopia’s Central Rift Valley is turning a wasteland into a profit center. “We felt sad even looking at this area because it was so barren. You couldn’t see grass or trees…

By Abe Henry Eleven Ethiopian men and women surrounded me, talking excitedly and gesturing, my interpreter struggling to keep up. They were trying to explain to me their feelings at seeing their land - hillsides they called…

By Jennifer O'Riordan In the fall of 2011, thousands of families who had fled Somalia’s dangerous south for the north began to experience a devastating famine. War and other violence in southern Somalia in the past three years…

By Maggie Farrand Xaliimo Cabdilahi Mohamed considers herself to be a lucky person, even though she is a refugee living in the Hiiraan camp in Garowe, Somalia. “We fled and left all our belongings because of killings, looting,…

Churches of Christ donation to feed thousands of starving people, Counterpart says Arlington, Va., August 18, 2011 – Urgently needed rice that will feed thousands of starving people will be sent by the nonprofit Counterpart International to…

Construction of the new Puntland Resource and Service Center (PRSC) commenced January 19, 2007 in Garowe, Puntland (Somalia). PRSC is a project initiated to strengthen civil society organizations in Puntland through technology transfer and capacity building. The centre is envisioned…

Maryland students raised money and leveraged nearly $500,000 worth of critically-needed pharmaceuticals to send to Darfur on the eve of their eighth grade graduation. POTOMAC, Maryland - While students throughout the region are busy attending graduation parties and preparing for summer…