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For children who have been displaced by conflict, the list of lost things can be long: home, consistent education, friends, stability, and sometimes even family members. Add to that other factors such as hunger, sickness, and isolation, and it’s clear that children caught in conflict are truly

Tao Baja Church of the Nazarene A week after Hurricane Maria pummeled Puerto Rico , the island is facing a widespread humanitarian crisis. The country is home to 3.4 million people. By the time Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, it had been downgraded from a Category 5 to Category 4 storm

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck central Mexico 19 September, killing at least 230 people . The epicenter of the quake was in Puebla state , about 75 miles from Mexico City. This quake comes less than two weeks after an 8.1-magnitude earthquake shook southern Mexico near the Guatemala border,

Hurricane Irma, at times strengthening to Category 5 storm, left a wake of destruction over the past two weeks from the eastern Caribbean islands through Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Irma is responsible for the deaths of at least 69 people in affected areas. Tens of thousands are now

Komali* is a Child Development Center coordinator in the North-West District in Bangladesh. After massive floods swept into Bangladesh in August, she wanted to visit one of her CDCs in an affected area. She found the whole village flooded; everywhere she looked there was water. People and cattle

UPDATE (September 13): Nazarene Compassionate Ministries is well on the way to filling the warehouses again. For those still in collecting CCKs, please continue. For those who have not yet started, know that the need is already being filled. NCM is more than ready to meet the existing needs and

Nazarenes provide disaster aid in Bangladesh Extraordinarily heavy monsoon rains have devastated areas in South Asia recently, including Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. More than 1,200 people have died in the floods — including many children — and more than 40 million people have been affected.

Over the last 20 years, thousands of children have come through the doors of the AMI-4 Street Kids Center , a Nazarene compassionate ministry center, to receive holistic development through physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual support. In observance of its 20th anniversary, the center

Red Cross Sri Lanka photo An unprecedented dengue fever outbreak is spreading through Sri Lanka after flooding earlier this year. More than half of Sri Lanka’s districts were inundated by monsoon rains, leaving standing water as prime mosquito breeding areas. The current infection rate is more than

On Monday, 14 August, heavy rains caused a mountainside to partially collapse on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. Floodwaters and mud swept away entire communities. As of 22 August, nearly 500 were confirmed killed, and as many as 600 more remained missing. More than 120 children