In rural Yakir Kebele, Welday* is among hundreds of villagers who watched their land turn to dust during a drought that has persisted for months in the Kola Tembien woreda of Central Tigray. Each day was a struggle to survive. The wells that had once sustained the community were now completely dry. Crops failed early…
Ayuda urgente para el norte de Etiopía azotado por la sequía
Newsletter January 2026
De preguntas difíciles a esperanza eterna
On the day of Adeni’s birth, his mother, Ropani, was shocked to see the splayed lip on her newborn son. The technology for detecting such malformations before birth was not available in the maternal child clinic in her small village in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In many rural Congolese communities, a child born…
Newsletter April 2026
Ayuda para familias desplazadas por las inundaciones en Colombia
Severe historic flooding has displaced tens of thousands of families across Colombia’s Córdoba Province where a month’s worth of rain fell in 14 hours during the country’s dry season. Homes and businesses were destroyed. Large swaths of valuable farmland were under water for days at a critical time of year for area agriculture. Families fled…
Los niños en el Pacífico reciben "La Gran Aventura" de sus vidas
If Vanua Levu isn’t the end of the Earth, it’s close. Rugged and isolated, the slender island is located 1,100 nautical miles northeast of New Zealand in the South Pacific, just east of the Coral Sea. It’s one of the 330 specks on the map that make up the Fiji archipelago. Ignored by most of…
Alimenta a un bebé con hambre
When children are desperately hungry, they often need specially formulated food to save their lives and prevent lifelong problems. For just $9, we can provide a week’s supply of therapeutic or supplemental food so that a famished child can be nursed back to health and have a chance at a brighter future. We also help…
Official Statement on Mansa, Zambia
A blog that was published in 2017 has recirculated stating that in a province in Zambia, pastors were charged money for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. We promptly investigated and were disappointed to find that this incident was true. We have made changes in our global national training program to emphasize that this cannot happen. Shoebox…











