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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...
Pathways Of Hope: Matching Funds Will Help Expansions
What a year! 2020 has created some crazy memories. Although it's been challenging, we've seen many positive outcomes. Our staff reached out with groceries for more than 80,000 people, and we've had opportunities to engage people in new and meaningful ways. We helped...
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...
Real Life Impact: Livelihood Training for 25 (More) Women
Do you ever wonder if livelihood training does any good? After all, participants often have low education, few incoming skills and almost no financial resources. So here's the true impact of what is happening in the Metro Manila community of Taytay, Rizal in Metro...
2020 Golden Hands Trainees Rock the Runway
Note: The next group of six women started their training on Oct. 9, 2020. Scroll below to read about the incredible women who have persevered to complete the Golden Hands Livelihood training. Five women enrolled in the Golden Hands Livelihood Sewing Course for...
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 Response: Emergency Food
Zac Carnill, ER's newest staff member in Quito, Ecuador shares this update on the food distribution that is part of our COVID-19 emergency response. In recent weeks we've focused our outreach on the Quito Dump Recycling Community, which has been severely impacted by a...
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...
COVID-19 Response: We’re Stretching Food Supplies
With our Fish Hoek Dream Center reopening this month, we're having to stretch the remaining funds for our COVID-19 emergency response. We're providing kids with nutritious meals during their time at the DC and providing their families with gift cards to purchase food...
Scholarship Donor: I Believe Education Is the Greatest…
Scholarship donor Kim Matar lives in Columbia, TN, with her rescue dog, Cassidy, after relocating from Colorado Springs, CO, following the death of her husband Rick in 2018. Her parents, Ellis and Frankie Pitman, long-time volunteers with Extreme Response, live...
Hungry Family Loves Its Neighbors
By Nick Carnill, ER Africa Staff For three months during the COIVD-19 crisis in South Africa, ER staff members have distributed emergency food, books and supplies to families in great need in local communities. Nick Carnill shares a story that shows how one hungry...
Haags Work the Farm, Help Feed Thousands
Stephen and Anne Haag are not your typical missionaries. They got into short-term missions with ER later in life and found that the experiences spoke to their hearts in a profound manner. They realized had a passion to serve others, but where and how? During a trip to...
Recreation Helps Belwop Kids Flourish
Nutrition, education, shelter and healthcare are often highest priorities for helping orphans and at-risk kids. But there's another element of healthy living that's equally important for the kids at ER partner Belwop Rescue Center and Children's Home -- recreation....
Laurel Lee Dreams Big with Quito Kids
"The kids light up when they they finally show you their dreams. It was moving." - Laurel Lee, short-term volunteer at the Quito Dream Center. The COVID-19 pandemic may have shortened Laurel Lee's time helping the kids at the Dream Center, but she still left with...
Pandemic Response: Food for At-Risk Families
May 2 Pandemic Response Update: The Philippines stay-at-home quarantine has been extended to May 15. But we have good news. ER Asia staff and other local volunteers have successfully provided emergency food to hundreds of families in the Taytay, Rizal community served...
Donor Transparency
We're pleased to share that Extreme Response International has reached GuideStar's GoldSeal of Transparency again for 2020. This achievement helps demonstrate our desire for donor transparency in all we do. Whether you are making your first gift to Extreme Response or...
Ecuadorian Orphans Get Emergency Food
The generosity of an ER donor has impacted Ecuadorian orphans living in western coastal region. The children are part of the Fundación Shekinah orphanage, a refuge located in the city of Manta. The foundation is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that...
Great Grandfather Treasures Investing in Kids
Chuck Slick isn't your typical 82-year-old great grandfather. A widower since his wife Mickey passed in 2008, the Bedford, PA, resident uses his time investing in the futures of vulnerable kids who live on the other side of the world. Chuck does this by both...