Backpacks for Kids in Morocco
Since February 2023, we have been helping those affected by the disastrous earthquake in Morocco. Rather than spreading ourselves thin and delivering a small amount of aid to many people, we have focused on several small villages that are tucked away in the High Atlas Mountains. These villages are located in cooler elevations so we […]
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URGENT! Help provide safe drinking water to those in Ukraine.
The ongoing war in Ukraine since February 2022 has caused massive civilian casualties and also destroyed civilian infrastructure, forcing people to flee their homes and seek safety, protection and assistance. Few people, especially elderly, are staying at the frontlines as long as possible so that they don’t lose their homes, despite the risk of fights […]
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Lend the Hand You’ve Got
Meet Sergei Buchin! He is the parishioner of a Baptist church and lives with his wife Nadezhda in the remote village of Chasiv Yar, Ukraine. When the war began, Sergei and his wife made a decision, at the risk of their lives, to stay in Chasiv Yar to help others. Most of the people that […]
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Staying Behind to Help
Olexandr Petrovich Bunin is 68 years old and lives in the city of Chasiv Yar, Ukraine. Before he retired, he worked at the local factory as an engineer. When the Russian invasion began and most of the men left town, Olexandr went to work for the utility company again. Because of his organizational skills and […]
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Maria’s Story: You Are Never Alone
Maria Osipchuk is a 79-year-old resident of the village of Borzoa in the Chemihiv region. She spent her entire working life as a teacher at the local elementary school, but is now retired. Even though she poured her entire life into helping and guiding other people’s children, she has no family of her own. In […]
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Boxes of Hope
Through our local partner on the ground, GAiN is providing yellow boxes for displaced people in Ukraine. A single yellow box provides a week’s worth of food for a family, and one box is delivered each week until the family has received four yellow boxes. Our local partner also takes time during each weekly delivery […]
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On the Move in Morocco
This past September, Morocco was rocked by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake that killed more than 2,900 people and injured approximately 5,500 others. The earthquake struck the western side of the country, damaging remote villages in the Atlas Mountains as well as parts of the historic city of Marrakech. GAiN swiftly stepped in to assess the […]
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Football and Fresh Bread
This past March, GAiN’s DART (Disaster Assistance Response Team) visited Turkey to help provide housing, including tents and tiny houses, to those who had lost their homes in the devastating earthquake that occurred in early February. One of the team members named Mitch shared about an encounter she had with a family whose home was […]
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Just a Haircut
There is so much power in restoring human dignity. Our DART team who were responding to the Turkey earthquake was able to participate in a distribution with GAiN’s local partner, First Hope Association. With their local volunteers and staff, we distributed hygiene kits as well as food and blankets for families in a community outside […]
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He Had Compassion in Ukraine
“I can’t do everything, but I can do more than nothing.” – Ian Daniel, founder of He Had Compassion Since the war began in February 2022, Global Aid Network (GAiN) has sent disaster relief to Ukraine to help shed light into the oppressive darkness that has become people’s waking reality. In addition to GAiN Germany […]
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