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Brad McKenna Joins Extreme Response as President & CEO
Our ER family is about to become stronger! I first met Brad McKenna in 2006, when he joined a short-term work team to Malawi, Africa, and I liked him immediately. He is from the same area of Michigan where Dawn and I grew up and where our sending church is located....
The Edge of Hope: Sewing Face Masks Empowers Mayette
By Pen Bullo, Pathway for Hope Staff ER's Pathway for Hope program operates with support from Grace Church of Glendora, CA. Since launching in 2018, the program has helped hundreds of vulnerable Metro Manila families through livelihood training, business basics and...
Pathways Of Hope: Matching Funds Will Help 2021 Expansion
Dear Friends, There are only a few days left in 2020 and we urgently need your support! Extreme Response has made a huge impact this year and we have big plans for 2021. Our year-end goal is to raise $800,000 to help accomplish our vision for the upcoming year and we...
2021: A Big Year for Golden Hands
Despite the crushing global pandemic, 2021 will be an important year for ER's Golden Hands Livelihood program. With more families struggling to survive, learning skills like advanced sewing are crucial to sustaining through desperate times. Take Mercy, who is 52 years...
ATAIM Increases Impact with Guest Housing
If you've been waiting to join a volunteer team serving with ER partner ATAIM in Beaufort West, South Africa, we have great news. ATAIM recently received and remodeled a sea container, making more room for you and your team. In his most recent newsletter, ATAIM's...
COVID-19 Response: Emergency Food
https://youtu.be/S1Qwdujn8f0 Brian Wallace, ER Americas Region Director, shares a glimpse of the emergency food distribution taking place since the beginning of our COVID-19 response. The Quito Garbage Transfer Station (Dump) has restricted work, causing severe stress...
Giving Tuesday: A Day to Support the Cause You Love
Tuesday, Dec.1, is Giving Tuesday, a day set aside to support your favorite charitable causes. GivingTuesday.org defines its mission like this: "Giving Tuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their...
Livelihood Training: Yogurt Builds Relationships
Relationship building is important for the women in the Quito Recycling Community. When they participate in livelihood training, relationships are a major factor in how they bond and gain trust. ER's Teresa Jimenez has led workshops in health, nutrition, life and...
Dream Center Provides Pathway of Hope for Thabo
In a few months, "Thabo" will celebrate his 12th birthday. Ideally, no child should have to face the challenges he is enduring. Thabo's family is Xhosa and hail from the Eastern Cape of South Africa. They settled near Cape Town, South Africa, to escape oppression and...
ER Canada Invites You to Its 2020 Virtual Dinner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8tauxTJ_Kc&feature=youtu.be Help Make ER Canada's 2020 Virtual Dinner a Big Success Extreme Response Canada is not letting COVID-19 hinder its annual banquet. After some hearty discussions, the team has shifted to a virtual...
ER Scholarships: Quito Dream Center Reaches 26!
ER scholarships are launchpads to opportunity! We are thrilled to share that 17 26 (as of Oct. 21) new scholarships have been provided by donors for the kids in the Quito Dream Center. What a blessing! These scholarship will allow these kids, most of whom are part of...
World Food Day: 43,000 Food Packets in Manila
It's World Food Day. ER supporters helped us feed 70,000+ meals to vulnerable families for months. And this week another 43,000 OneMeal food packets reached Manila where our ER Asia team distributed this vital nourishment to families in need. Receiving the food is...
Counting Down to ER’s 24th Christmas Outreach!
The clock is ticking...there are fewer than 82 days until Christmas! In a normal year, we'd be busy communicating with Christmas team members, purchasing gifts and supplies, and coordinating the timing of parties with our staff and partners. As always, we desire to...
A Broken John Wayne Finds Healing; Rebounds to Feed Kids in Mozambique
ER’s Leadership Development program has witnessed many turnaround stories over the years, but John Wayne Kennedy's story has to be among the most inspiring. It’s really quite amazing. John Wayne Kennedy grew up in Zimbabwe and moved to Nampula, Mozambique. There, he...
Best. Excuse. Ever. Shop to Support Extreme Response
It's true. You can shop to support ER programs when you purchase items from AmazonSmile. It may not see like a lot or money, but even $100 goes a long way. It can provide 50 meals to kids at our dream centers, buy supplies for livelihood training, buy food for...
School Packs Distributed to Quito Dream Center Kids
Update: We just distributed school packs to many of the 40+ kids in the Quito Dream Center. It was very exciting to see the smiles of these kids, most of whom are part of the Quito Dump Recycling community. Without help from ER supporters, many of these kids' families...
COVID-19: New Computers Giving Kids a Huge Boost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNmk4xc07gY Several weeks ago we shared an urgent need for computer labs to provide remote learning for the vulnerable kids we serve (see below) as part of our COVID-19 response. We're thrilled to share that ER supporters have met this...
Quito Kids: Nieves Inspires Students to Dream
Long-time teacher Nieves Nivelo is one of our foundation stones at the Quito Dream Center. She loves the kids and embraces training, two powerful attributes that have made her a high-impact educator. She holds a bachelor's degree in Science Education and a...
