Lessons through Friendship on the Other Side I’ve just moved home after three years living on the other side – of the world and the canal and the mainstream. There are lots of ways to describe my former neighborhood and home, but you know what I...
Improving the Lives of Poor Women Farmers by Addressing their Social, Economic and Environmental Constraints in Agriculture CARE is a non-governmental organisation working in 90 countries around the world to bring transformative change to communities through humanitarian aid and development. They have a special focus on women’s...
A book review of one family's story of doing humanitarian work in Afghanistan in the years following 9/11. Going for a gap year or short-term service abroad can be a life-enriching, mutually beneficial experience. We survey the needs and sign up for risky ventures, savoring the opportunity to...
This International Literacy Day, Dan Winch shares his experience volunteering at a school that ensures poverty does not prevent children from receiving a quality education. Johannesburg. For many Westerners, the name is synonymous with danger. This is a justly deserved reputation, and not one that many South...
“The Shifting Lens of Development” For as long as I can remember, I have always been interested in social change and development. As a youth, I did not fully know how to classify this field of interest nor was I even aware that it was something...
Inspiring and Releasing Every Christian Student to Pursue the Biblical Call to Social Justice. A few years ago, several students in Oxford grew frustrated by the inaction and lack of passion for justice that they saw around them – in light of the injustice they’d seen...
Serving at Uzima Mission Clinic Where Fifty to Sixty Babies are Delivered Monthly, & A Hundred+ People Visit Daily During the summer of 2013, I had the privilege of going to Tanzania to partner with a Youth With A Mission base in a village just an hour south...
How different would the world look if we were all stewarding our gifts, and if we actually took seriously the command to bless and be a blessing? Around the time that we established the Blessed To Give Foundation two years ago, a widely shared article was...