After Years of Despair, A Syrian Woman Finds Her Purpose 6 min Read Shaza is a young Syrian woman. Seven years ago, her life turned upside down. War destroyed her home and extinguished her dreams.
To Our Volunteers – Thank You for Your Time 5 min Read Over the past 40 years, volunteers have given of their time and talents, touching millions of lives. Whether a hurricane, a famine, a refugee crisis or a pandemic, they’ve shown up. Read about just a few of the ways volunteers have answered the call to serve in the last few months.
Serving the Local Community With Mobile Dental Vans 3 min Read Mobile Dental volunteers and patients represent the amazing work taking place right now in our own backyard. Here are two stories that demonstrate how strong our local communities are.
Power Presence: How Volunteering Heals 3 min Read Not all pain is visible. It’s not as if anguish is something you can diagnose with a simple assessment—or treat with a pill. Hurt, after all, can cut scars far deeper than what we see with our eyes.
Daughter and Father Share Love of Volunteering 6 min Read Like many who sacrifice their free time for others, Aashna and Keshavan struggle to put their passion for volunteering into anything but simple terms: To do good feels good.
Sustainable Energy, Sustainable Giving 3 min Read When the wind whips the wheat on Millie Moore-Voll’s ranch, there’s electricity in the air. This is her legacy for the world’s most vulnerable…
18 Ways to Keep the World Healthy in 2018 7 min Read Here are the 18 ways that we will work to keep the world healthy in 2018!
17 Photos of Lives Transformed in 2017 1 min Read Check out 17 of our favorite images that illustrate the life-changing work that happened in 2017!
“God Help Them”– Harrowing Stories from Bangladesh 3 min Read Theresa Wood, a Medical Teams nurse, has spent nearly three weeks in Bangladesh helping the refugees. Here she shares some of the difficult stories she’s heard…
Rohingya Refugees make Progress Despite Challenging Conditions 3 min Read The following dispatch comes from Dr. Bruce Murray, who’s been in Bangladesh for the past three weeks…
Helping Families After Hurricane Harvey 2 min Read “I think all of us can imagine what it would be like for us to lose our home, to be stuck in a shelter.”
A Welcome Medical Delivery in Cambodia 1 min Read How big of a difference can a delivery of medical equipment make in a health clinic?