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Volunteers Share Their Christmas Joy

Volunteers Share Their Christmas Joy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHvv3RrYDfA By Dawn Carnill, Director of Christmas Outreach This year we saw great impact on many levels. Children who are new to our Dream Center programs experienced their very first Christmas party. Their excitement was...

Five Ways to Find Adventure in 2025

Five Ways to Find Adventure in 2025

Add fun and fulfillment to your life this year. Pack Your Bags for Ecuador Create or join a short-term team headed to Quito where we operate a Dream Center and a Women’s Program. Your time there will be filled with fulfilling volunteer work and you’ll experience the...

Theresa’s Life is Forever Changed

Theresa’s Life is Forever Changed

Theresa is a remarkable woman who lives in the deep south of South Africa. Originally from Zimbabwe, Theresa works as a nanny in Fish Hoek. As a single mom with two sets of twins ages 13 and 6, Theresa has spent many days stressing over how to support them. In 2018,...

Anita Is No Longer Alone

Anita Is No Longer Alone

Recently, Jaque shared her uplifting story for our Make Your Ripple year-end fundraiser. Below, you’ll be by inspired Anita, also a member of the Quito Recycling Community. Four months ago, Anita Gaucho dragged herself to a workshop at the Quito Women’s Program. She...

Lena: From Home Alone to Hopeful & Confident

Lena: From Home Alone to Hopeful & Confident

Lena (privacy name) is seven, charismatic, sociable, and very curious to learn how things in her environment work. Her family emigrated two years ago to Quito from another province in Ecuador in search of job opportunities. Lena is an only child who has attended the...

Dream Centers Give New Life to Families

Dream Centers Give New Life to Families

Maggie Shifts from Fighter to Student Leader When Maggie's (privacy name) joined the Cavite Dream Center, she was a typical kid from the streets of Metro Manila. She fought with the other kids and used foul language. After a few months, we saw a big change. She...

Bridge Church Serves with Passion in South Africa

Bridge Church Serves with Passion in South Africa

The Bridge Church of Miramar, FL continues to serve vulnerable people living in Ecuador and South Africa via short-term mission teams. This team poured into the kids at the Fish Hoek Dream Center by helping them with homework, doing crafts, and serving fun food. Carol...

Victor Experiences Dramatic Life Change

Victor Experiences Dramatic Life Change

Victor (privacy name) came to the Fish Hoek Dream Center like most kids -- a bit broken. He had potential written all over him, but struggled in school and faced chaos at home. How would he find a path forward? Fortunately, Victor leaned into tutoring and mentoring....

Wayne and Chloe Join ER in South Africa

Wayne and Chloe Join ER in South Africa

We have exciting news. We just welcomed two additions to our team in South Africa: Wayne Ferreira and Chloe de Bruin (scroll below to read more on Cloe). Wayne was born in South Africa and grew up in Mozambique from age seven, where his parents are missionaries. He...

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My Childhood Buddy Never Left Me

My Childhood Buddy Never Left Me

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. - Ecclesiastes 4:9 By Raymond Sumaya, iBIKE Director Ryan and I grew up in the same impoverished area of Metro Manila. We were best friends and playmates. I was seven years old and he was nine...

Dream With Us…

Dream With Us…

Together We Dream… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpU0i_9uB0 What is your dream for improving our world? We’ve been thinking about this all year! Watch the video and be inspired. Dream with us as we fight to improve our world. Here are three dreams shared by our...

Grandmother’s Advocacy Rescues Aziza

Grandmother’s Advocacy Rescues Aziza

Today we revisit the story of a student whose future once appeared hopeless. Because of some unfortunate circumstances, her mother could not care for Aziza, who was suffering poor emotional and physical health. Fortunately, Aziza's grandmother took her in and started...

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