Relief in the Nick of Time
The helpless villagers watched in horror as their bountiful crops spoiled. The future never looked so fearful.
Read MoreThe helpless villagers watched in horror as their bountiful crops spoiled. The future never looked so fearful.
Read MoreI tried to imagine what it would be like to endure a Category 5 hurricane generating 185 mph sustained winds, dumping 3 feet of rain, and pushing a wall of seawater over 20 feet tall across the island, submerging all but a few small areas of high ground, incessantly pounding everything in its path to shreds—and even moving large cement block homes hundreds of feet off their foundations. Most trees were uprooted or snapped off; those that remained were barren, leafless skeletons.
Read MoreI’m sure you’ve watched in horror the media’s coverage of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Dorian this week in the Bahamas. Although known as a tourist destination and getaway for the rich, the vast majority of the Bahamian people, scattered across many of the 700 islands that make up that nation, are very poor and without the means to recover on their own.
Read MoreLots of rain is expected this time of year in the Southeast Asian nation of Laos, since this is their monsoon season, but this has been a year of drought.
Read MoreWill it stop?? That’s what I’ve been thinking in March and early April as 3 separate cyclones (hurricanes) pommeled the southeastern coast of Africa—particularly Mozambique and Malawi, two of the poorest countries on earth.
Read MoreJust three days ago I reported to you about some very poor brothers and sisters in Malawi who lost their homes to a cyclone last fall, and how you helped through the Disaster Relief Ministry. But as I write (March 14), another cyclone (Idai) is ripping across Malawi, deluging that small, poor African nation with rain. The very morning my report hit your inbox, I received a disturbing email from the same partner in Malawi, telling me heavy rains from that cyclone were, at that moment, flooding vast lowland areas of the country, severely damaging or destroying homes, meager possessions, food supplies, and taking dozens of lives.
Read More"I was in great fear sleeping in the open skies, wet by night rain and showers, hit by day's sun heat and all flying and creeping creatures.”
Read MoreWhile taking photos of the devastation caused by the volcano Fuego, a man came walking by me with a shovel. Seeing my questioning eyes, perhaps, he stopped to explain his mission.
Read MoreI’m leaving today from my home airport of Pittsburgh and heading to Guatemala City to meet survivors of this summer’s volcanic eruption that left 200 dead and thousands homeless.
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