Joanne is one of the many who went through the Typhoon Haiyan. She and her family struggled to swim and survive the storm, swimming for about 500 meters each to their own safety. They saw their life swept away, their home and all they had destroyed by the winds and storm.
Read MoreThe road to recovery is a long and hard one, like the Chinese Proverb says To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping. It is when you keep stepping that one day you look around you and realize that the light is breaking and hope is restored. We might not be there yet, but there is hope for the future.
We had one of these moments recently in the Philippines. We have been working tirelessly with some of our NGO partners for months now bringing aid and helping the Philippines people to pick up the pieces in the wake of Haiyan. One of our projects we have been a part of, with some of our amazing NGO partners Hope For the Nations and Ora International, is the “Child Protection Project.” We have been traveling throughout the Philippines providing relief & aid and working to bringing hope to the children and families most affected by the typhoon that hit the Philippines last November.
Read MoreQ: Are kids good soldiers?
A: Interestingly enough, once you put an AK-47 in their hands, they are as effective as adults. They can shoot, mutilate, kill, manoeuvre, overwhelm a position — on the actual battlefield, they are doing everything adults can do, and sometimes with even more verve than an adult might. They can be influenced so strongly, and their ability to retain values and ethics and rules is much more limited than adults’ ability, so they’re in one sense more flexible.
Read MoreThe "parents" in our children's homes play a vital role in our kid's recovery and restoration. They love the children through the fear and pain of their pasts, while helping them discover their dreams for the future.
Recently we received this sweet story from Ying, a houseparent in one of our Upper Mekong Homes.
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