Tag listing: Poverty
YWAM Global Leadership Forum Begins with Home Building
The first full day of YWAM’s 2011 Global Leadership Forum gathering began with the sound of power saws and hammers. Regional leaders and international coordinators were carrying sheets of plywood a...
Published December 07, 2011
YWAM Responds in Somalia Food Crisis
While aid groups and political movements argue about the severity of the food crisis in the eastern Horn of Africa, it is clear to everyone that an overwhelming number of people are desperate for h...
Published July 27, 2011
YWAM Acts in Somalia Food Crisis
Our appeal to help victims of the famine in the eastern Horn of Africa, which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya has raised over $8000 so far to pro...
Published July 27, 2011
Tears and Hope for Pakistan's Flood Victims
Since July 31, 2010, one fifth of the nation of Pakistan has been gradually submerged under the most devastating floods of its existence. The United Nations estimates that the deluge has affected 2...
Published September 14, 2010
Hope for Haiti
“The city of St Marc erupted with screams and shouts”
This is how Terry W Snow, YWAM’s national director for Haiti remembered the minutes after the terrible earthquake that was to change Hait...
Published July 23, 2010
It all began with a new vision!
After hearing at a conference in India that two percent of the country’s population is blind, Sanjeev Thacker couldn’t shake this people group from his mind. He had just started a YWAM centre in Ch...
Published March 15, 2010
Finding God Amid the Garbage
Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, has a garbage heap where a group of children and young people live; they are labeled “monsters” by the locals. My friends and I from the YWAM centre in Herrnhut, G...
Published March 05, 2010
YWAM Angola and the School That Time Forgot.
You know that a people group are isolated if they don’t even turn up on a Google search.
YWAM Huambo in Angola have focused their efforts on three locations in their nation where the tribes are...
Published February 11, 2010
