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Bethany Shoots Video on Two Continents in One Summer
It was a whirlwind summer for volunteer Bethany Johnson, who took her camera to South Africa and Ecuador during a hectic 10-week trip. A student at King's College in NY, Bethany had previously served with ER through our partner Living Hope in South Africa. Bethany...
Find Your Fulfillment by Volunteering
Hannah Pours Into Dream Center Kids Hannah Townsend spent her formative years helping her family serve vulnerable kids at what is now the Fish Hoek Dream Center. Her parents, Ron and Amy Townsend, oversee the Center. After graduating high school in South Africa, she...
Unity Savings Group Empowers 280 Participants
Savings Group Allows Elena to Help Her Family By Maryann Dagdag, Unity Savings Group Adviser, Pathway For Hope Staff When the Philippines was hit by coronavirus, millions of Filipinos lost their jobs. This included Elena’s husband and their children. Pandemic policies...
COVID Craziness: Jason & Melissa Finally Reunite!
Two Four Six Months of Limbo: COVID Craziness, Part 2 August 13, 2021 Update: It took half a year for Jason and Melissa to reunite in Manila. Jason had traveled to the US to attend his mother's funeral, only to encounter a never-ending series of setbacks when he tried...
Cycles For Life Mobilizes Barber
Barber Overcomes COVID Hurdles Through Pay-It-Forward Program Yman was stuck. The 23-year-old was studying and working at a barber shop during COVID and it wasn't going well. He couldn't use public transportation to get to work or school. In fact, the barber shop was...
We Need You for Christmas Outreach
Got COVID cabin fever? We've got the perfect solution. Together, let's get off the sidelines and make a difference this Christmas! We need volunteers to join our Christmas teams to Ecuador and South Africa. The outreaches will be smaller and more intimate than past...
Be a School Pack Hero
Kids worldwide are heading back to school with their backpacks, uniforms and supplies. But some kids won't be returning because their families cannot afford the cost of these items, especially following COVID lockdowns that resulted in parents losing income. Sadly,...
Kindle Health Clinic Gets Electricity
Would you seek help at a health clinic that lacked power? When we first encountered the Katawa Clinic in 2017, it was the only rural clinic providing women's health services in Malawi. ER partner Kindle Orphan Outreach oversees the clinic and asked for our help. The...
Fish Hoek First Graders Dream Big
One of our favorite activities is "onboarding" new kids to our Dream Centers. We challenge them to dream big by asking them, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Our Grade 1 students in Fish Hoek recently had fun thinking about that question and ER's Dawn...
Pandemic Response: Emergency Veggies
"Relief update: 1,856 families received their veggies from Baguio, for a total of 3,927 families getting emergency food." When the coronavirus outbreak hit in the spring of 2020, ER responded by distributing emergency food to families in need in the communities we...
Newlyweds Donate Gifts to Belwop Kids
Paige Brenner Eubank was immediately intrigued when she heard about a ministry in Kenya that was helping vulnerable kids. In the summer of 2018, Canvas Church sent a team of volunteers through Extreme Response to serve at partner Belwop Child Rescue Center in Nyeri,...
Drivers Survive Kidnapping; Lemuel Leaders Express Joy
“After receiving the news, we were almost paralyzed with relief. All we could do was praise God and thank Him over and over." There was high drama in the Western plateau of Haiti for long-time Extreme Response partner Lemuel Ministries when two employees were...
Skills Training: Patterns for Life
By Anne Benavidez, Golden Hands Director Our current Golden Hands Livelihood advanced sewing course trainees have finished their straight sewing projects. They've learned how to sew pillows, curtains, miniature bedsheets, reversible bags and aprons. They've also...
Quito Dream Center Kids Get Crafty
Trying times call for creative solutions. The COVID pandemic continues to make in-person learning an elusive target for children in Ecuador. Their schools are a mix of distance learning, unusual schedules and much confusion. In response, our Quito Dream Center staff...
COVID-19 PANDEMIC EXPOSES DIRE NEED FOR COMPUTER LABS
How important is it for vulnerable children to have access to computers in 2021? It's massive. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed this critical need. Kids from families that cannot afford computers or Internet access are getting left behind as communities increasingly rely...
Life Skills Breakthrough: Quito Women Lead Bible Studies
The women from the Quito recycling community who participate in ER programs have come such a long way. In the early years of our work in the Quito Dump, most of the women recyclers had dropped out of school and had little education. They focused on gleaning ...
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....
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...
