Middle East’s largest camp turns three as Syrian refugees in region top four million – UN agency
28 July 2015 – Living conditions for more than half a million refugees living in Jordan is becoming increasingly tough, the United Nations refugee agency warned today on the eve of the third anniversary of the establishment of Za’atari camp, which has grown into the largest refugee camp in the Middle East. “Lines of tents […]
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In quake-stricken Nepal, ’emergency is not over yet,’ warns senior UN relief official
24 July 2015 – Three months after the first of the devastating earthquakes that hit Nepal, hundreds of thousands of survivors continue to require and rely on urgent humanitarian assistance, the top United Nations humanitarian official in the recovering country said today. “The emergency is not over yet,” warned Jamie McGoldrick, the Humanitarian Coordinator in […]
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Syria: bread prices up nearly 90 per cent, pushing more people into hunger, UN report warns
23 July 2015 – Syria’s food production in 2015 remains at 40 per cent below its pre-crisis levels, impacting the price of bread, which has spiralled by 87 per cent, and shrinking poultry production by half, according to a United Nations agency report released today that warns that “the risk of irreversible damage to the […]
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Syria: bread prices up nearly 90 per cent, pushing more people into hunger, UN report warns
13 July 2015 – Syrian children are becoming increasingly vulnerable to water borne illnesses amid peaking summer temperatures and dwindling supplies of safe water, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned today. “The situation is alarming particularly for children who are susceptible to water borne diseases,” Hanaa Singer, UNICEF’s Representative in Syria reported in a […]
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Syrian refugee numbers pass four million as war rages on, UN
9 July 2015 – The exodus spawned by the four-year long Syrian conflict has now become the United Nations refugee agency’s largest crisis in almost a quarter of a century and risks deteriorating even further as fighting in the country shows no sign of abating. In a news release issued earlier today, the Office of […]
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Kuranko (May 2013)
“We, the pastors of this district, are well aware of what you are doing to expand the Kingdom of God here,” Pastor Dako A. Turay told the JESUS Film Church Planting Strategy (JFCPS) team. “We have worked together before and the work is actually flourishing. I praise God for that. We have nothing to give to you in return […]
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Kono Church Plant Flourishes
Two years ago, Bendu Community Church led by Pastor Lebbie in Koidu Town, Sierra Leone adopted the JESUS Film Church Planting Strategy (JFCPS) with the goal of planting new churches in the surrounding Kono villages. “We simply don’t have materials to train our members. Thank you for coming here to assist our church with training […]
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Liberia Update
ToorkopaNew believers in the village of Toorkopa had no hope of ever saving enough money to buy the zinc sheets used for the roof. By faith, they cleared the land that they were given to build a church. Then they began to make bricks for the walls with no hope of ever getting roofing material. […]
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Years Later
ONE WATER WELL TRANSFORMS AN ENTIRE VILLAGE In May 2008, GAiN drilled the first deep-capped water well in Tanzania in the village of Malungo. This remote village, located in the plateaus just three hours from the town of Lindi, had hundreds of people that were desperate for water. At that time, their only water source […]
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The Forgotten Village
VILLAGERS DESPERATE FOR HELP The joy and anticipation that a well brings to a village is difficult to explain to a person that has always had easy access to clean water. But, for those in Haweme village, they know this desperation far too well. Located in the middle of the jungle in the south of […]
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