MEET LOVE NEVER FAILS (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) When Seble left a life of prostitution and placed her faith in Jesus, she expected those first steps to be the hardest. But when a local church told her to not return because they didn’t’ want their church to be known as a church of prostitutes, she was […]
MEET LOVE LINK (San Salvador, El Salvador) An El Salvadoran mother entered Love Link’s baby house cradling a limp infant in pain. The infant resembled a skeleton more than a baby. The tiny ribs jutting out of her malnourished body could be counted. Not an ounce of fat existed to cover her emaciated body. Bryna […]
MEET CEMIPRE (Valparaíso, Chile) Filled with fear and shame, Macarena took her first steps into CEMIPRE. These steps meant she was becoming one of “them”–a person with a disability. Macarena was young, fit, and working at a job she loved. She didn’t want to be disabled, even though she was diagnosed with degenerative low vision. […]
MEET SACDEM (Buenos Aires, Argentina) In Argentina, children born to mothers in prison live with their mothers in the penitentiary system until they turn 4-years-old. SACDEM takes care of these children of prisoners weekly, offering a safe place to play and a break from the prison environment. SACDEM works with marginalized groups rejected by society, […]