In Word and Deed
In November 2015, our GAiN Water for Life Initiative Team visited Ethiopia and brought back good news from a poor, remote village in the dry region of Southern Ethiopia – Ame Serba. A newly-drilled deep-capped well had been finished and the team was there for the dedication. Almost the whole village of goat and cattle herders turned […]
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Fearfully and Wonderfully Made
Writen by Mukti’s caregiver – Shruti first came to Mukti Mission five years ago as a small 12 year-old girl with Down Syndrome. She comes from a kind family and has a mother, father, sister and brother. Her parents are farm laborers and when they would go to work, Shruti would be left alone at […]
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From Turmoil to Peace
Stuti comes from a volatile background. Although her parents are Christians, their family life was not filled with love. Her father is a day labourer who seeks to provide for his family with a very small wage. Stuti’s mother was unhappy with the situation. Her parents would fight and with each voicing their opinion but […]
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Multiple Needs Met in Namauni
The village of Namauni, located in Tanzania, was able to build a teachers house at the school with the coming of the deep-capped water well. The school and teacher’s buildings were constructed with small clay bricks, but there were no water sources anywhere near the school, which made construction difficult and costly. With the well […]
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Making a Difference, One Bag at a Time
Many Syrian IDPs (Internally Displaced People) first come to our partner’s building because someone tells them they can get a Bag of Blessing there. Each Bag of Blessing consists of food and non-food items. With the onset of winter, blankets and heaters were now added to each bag. After individuals would come to the center […]
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Multiple Needs Met in Namauni
The village of Namauni, located in Tanzania, was able to build a teachers house at the school with the coming of the deep-capped water well. The school and teacher’s buildings were constructed with small clay bricks, but there were no water sources anywhere near the school, which made construction difficult and costly. With the well […]
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More Than Just Clean Water
The village of Rweje in Tanzania had the most number of buckets and jerry cans lined up at a water well that our Water for LIfe Initiative team had ever seen. In fact, they lost count after 200! It turns out that four villages were getting clean water from this one well. Because there were so many […]
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No Escape
“I want her safe”, said Pari’s mother when she came to Mukti to leave her daughter. “I can not escape my lifestyle and work but I want Pari to have a choice,” her mother said determinedly as she made the decision to leave Pari at Mukti. Pari was living in Northern India with her mother and father. […]
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Syria: UN Human Rights Advisers Alarmed at Rise of Incitement to Religious Violence
13 October 2015 – Senior United Nations human rights officials today expressed their alarm at the rise in violent rhetoric by influential religious leaders – including calls for “holy war” against certain faiths – in relation to the situation in Syria. The UN Secretary-General’s Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and Special […]
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‘Simple act of playing represents grave danger for children in Syria’ – UNICEF
16 September 2015 – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has condemned in the strongest terms mortar attacks on civilian areas of Aleppo, Syria, which reportedly killed at least 19 children yesterday, including six in a UNICEF-supported child friendly space. “Child friendly spaces enable children to play and reconnect with their childhood, and forget, even […]
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