February 8, 2016

This article was originally published on the Alliance website. According to the International Labour Organization, sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s highest incidence of child labor (59 million—more than 21 percent of the region’s children). In West Africa hard manual labor is part of daily life. Most city families hire a domestic worker, often a young girl […]

February 1, 2016

Today’s post is adapted from an emergency relief proposal by Dr. Kenzo, President of the Evangelical Community of the Alliance in Congo (CEAC). Boma is a port city of over 500,000 inhabitants in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It lies on the north bank of the Congo River, upstream from Muanda, where the water meets […]

December 28, 2015

Today’s post is written by a CAMA worker serving in the Middle East. “Whiiiireeeeet!” The whistle broke the silence of the early morning dusty air. “Stand in line! Class by class!” Converted bedrooms stood ready to receive 95 new students. Except for the excited children, it was hard to tell this was even a school. […]

December 7, 2015

Today’s post is written by Anya Holcomb, a CAMA worker in Kosovo. We live three hours away from the main camp where refugees enter Macedonia from Greece on their journey to Western Europe. Currently, there are approximately 7,000 refugees passing through this camp each day. CAMA is partnering with a Christian NGO that meets these […]

November 16, 2015

Today’s post is written by Adriaan Overbeeke. While teaching a marriage seminar at Living Waters Church in Poipet, Cambodia, I was introduced to a distinguished older Cambodian man, Mr. Sary, referred to as the “CAMA man.” Back in 1979, Mr. Sary had been part of the Khmer Rouge—a political party that systematically killed thousands of Cambodians […]