Posts Tagged With: Food
Hope and Healing Doubled
When I first saw the “before” photos of Marco Antonio and Marco Tulio, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I’d seen many cute photos from parents celebrating their twins. This seemed like a nightmarish mirror image of that happy experience. The twin boys had similar agonized expressions, protruding bones and weak limbs. Their skin was stretched … Continue reading
An Offering of Love
A simple plastic bag filled with food. It’s something I take home from the grocery store each week without really thinking about it. While I’m by no means rich and don’t buy extravagant grocery items, I’ve never had to worry about whether I have enough money to buy the food I need. For the deathly … Continue reading
The Right Thing to Do
Remember Gotitas de Amor, the Cross-supported daycare/kindergarten in Bolivia that I talked about on Tuesday? There’s one more story I just have to share with you about the center’s Christian leaders who are “doing the right thing” for a family in need—and sharing the message of Christ in the process. The story begins with Claudia, … Continue reading
Big Smiles, Full Stomachs
There’s nothing better than seeing the smiling face of a happy, well-fed child…and it’s even better when you know God worked through caring Christians to make it happen. Last week, I photographed a distribution of Vitafood to children at an orphanage in Haiti. What is Vitafood? Vitafood is the generic name for all Cross meal-packs … Continue reading
Rising Food Prices
In case you haven’t already noticed, prices at the grocery store have been going up in the last few months. Food prices worldwide are on the rise this year for a number of reasons, including natural disasters in Russia, Argentina, and Australia, droughts in China, and sky-rocketing oil prices resulting from recent conflicts in the … Continue reading
World Food Day 2010
The 30th annual World Food Day is coming this Saturday, and there will be good news as well as bad news to reflect on as we turn our attention to global hunger. The good news is that the number of hungry people in the world has fallen by nearly 100 million from last year’s all-time … Continue reading
Child mortality on the rise
First the good news: ten African countries are only half as poor as they were two decades ago. Now the bad news: child mortality rates have actually gone up, rather than down, in six sub-Saharan nations. Sub-Saharan Africa holds the unfortunate distinction of being the only region in the world that has seen an increase … Continue reading
The Child Evangelist
Ask a boy who his hero is, and chances are good he’ll name an athlete, rock star, actor, or even a comic book character. But 10-year-old Joshua, who lives at the Cross-sponsored Kondanani Village in Malawi, is no ordinary boy. His hero is a charismatic Zambian preacher he watches on TV, and he’s already started … Continue reading
Born into hunger and disease
It was obvious to Charity’s parents that something was wrong. All babies cry, but not like this. Charity was crying all the time and seemed to be in severe pain, so they took her to the doctor. The diagnosis turned out to be a common one among poor Zambian families: tuberculosis, often the first warning … Continue reading
