A Dream, Hard Place, Middle East
His tears flowed. This refugee just couldn’t help it. You would have wept, too. He’d been a successful businessman. Then his home and business were bombed. He and his family are now displaced, skimping to survive in their own country. But that’s not why he burst into...
A Dream, Hard Place, Middle East
His mother died when he was ten. Her funeral marked darkness closing in on him. Without his mother’s support, he concluded school was a dead-end. After four years wasted in classrooms, he was still illiterate. He snagged a day-labor job turning unfired bricks to dry...
A Dream, Accompany, Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East, Youth
One Becomes a Thousand The impact of your generosity is multiplying, from life to life to life across Egypt. So what kind of return on investment do you reap when you build into the lives of Egyptian child laborers? I was just in Cairo and saw the results myself....
Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East, Network, Youth
Refusing Despair with Tangible Hope Imagine. Your salary drops to half its value while you sleep. Reality. On November 3, 2016, the Egyptian pound lost half its value overnight against the US dollar, doubling the annual inflation rate to over 20 percent. Imagine. Your...
A Dream, Hard Place, Local Visionary, Middle East
Those Who Have Ears…Let Them Hear Dr. Maged’s first patient that morning was distressed. “I cannot hear.” Before the rural clinic opened, this villager had waited over two hours for that coveted first spot in line. With only five public hospitals for nearly 1.4...
Hard Place, Middle East, Values
“Where is he?” David muttered, pacing and jittery. “He’s two hours overdue.” Our visionary friend was traversing conflict zones, but he’d never been this late. Then the phone rang. David lunged for it. His face projected relief,...
