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Founded in 2016, LifeBank is a Nigerian health technology startup created to address the issue of blood shortages in Nigeria. The startup recently expanded to Kenya and aims to save lives across all of Africa. […]

Through a combination of STEM education, infrastructure and trade with industrialized countries, many formerly underdeveloped nations have seen significant growth in economic output and improved quality of life, […]

Zimbabwe is one of the most impoverished countries in the world. After years under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe, and with the added impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of Zimbabweans living in extreme […]

According to the World Bank, Angola has a ranking of 0.36 on the Human Capital Index, which is below the sub-Saharan average. This means that the earning potential of a child born in Angola today is 36% of what it […]

Access to electricity in Kenya has steadily improved over the last decade and a substantial part of this progress is due to the country’s impressive geothermal power plants, the first of which formed in 1981. By p […]

Compassion photojournalists Javier Elis in Guatemala and J. Sangma in Bangladesh sat down to ask children and fathers about their mutual love, dreams and memories. […]

For the best letter writing tips, go straight to the experts: sponsors! Recently we put out a call on our Facebook page asking for the best advice about writing to […]

A gift of chickens brought hope to Sarum, who lives in the Ou Takok community of Cambodia. Poultry seemed an unlikely answer for the struggling grandmother, who believed she was in a hopeless situation.
She and […]

This month, I want you to meet Odette, a supervisor in our Compassion Burkina Faso office. Odette shared about her own childhood, growing up in rural Burkina Faso […]

“I was in church when I realized I had 15 missed calls,” Christian shares. “My phone had been on silent mode. When I stepped out of the service to call and find […]

Habtam was a caring mother, but she was also very concerned about finding help for her children.
Life was very difficult where she lived with her children in Lay Gayint, Ethiopia. She had no money to pay for the […]

Faith and spiritual growth are among the important parts of life that a mother must teach her daughter, Mirla Flores learned.
Mirla, 40, lives in one of the myriad neighborhoods clinging to the hills just outside […]

Food! It’s part of our daily life and directly impacts our quality of life. What we eat says a lot about our culture too. So we thought we’d ask some children who […]

A new piece of research, conducted by The Empty Homes Network on behalf of Habitat for Humanity Great Britain, aims to explore and understand the current opportunities available in reutilising socially-owned […]

When people hear our name for the first time, they often think that Food for the Hungry (FH) is a food bank. FH staff become accustomed to hearing comments such as, “Where do you pass out food?” So If you hav […]

Houses are so much more than just physical structures. They are homes. Places where we raise our families, keep our belongings, relax and unwind. And where we build our hopes, dreams and plans for the future.
The […]

Poor nutrition was at the heart of most problems for the Pooya family in Uganda – and there were many problems.
Hunger was a daily condition. They would have one meal on good days, with just one type of food. D […]

As businesses have begun opening back up, we have been subjected to increasing hand-wringing from business owners, particularly restaurants and similar service-based workplaces, who insist they are facing a labor […]

Lighting the Way to Education for Children
Lighting is essential to allow students to study. But what happens when no electricity is available to children?
In many communities where Food for the Hungry (FH) works […]

The first step in team generosity: Joy Graeff picked up a brochure on Food for the Hungry (FH) at a concert. The event featured Toby Mac, one of many valued FH artist partners.
Joy, who is a math teacher at […]