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Scroll below to read stories highlighting the challenges, opportunities and victories our staff, teams, and the people we serve, experience daily. Subscribe to our Extreme Response Newsletter, via the link in our footer, to receive regular updates.
Livelihood Skills Help Homeless Family
While ER helps hundreds of vulnerable women annually by providing livelihood skills, we focus our newsfeed on just a few so readers can learn their stories. The following story updates Gina's journey, which we introduced in fall 2017. By Anne Benavidez, ER Asia (Oct....
Find Your Life-Changing Volunteering Experience
So you've heard about short-term volunteering overseas and you're intrigued. But, you wonder, where in the world should you go and how can you make a real impact? Fortunately for you, we have the solution to your dilemma - connect with Extreme Response in the...
Seed Of Love Fights For Cancer Families
https://youtu.be/eO6GaaMyNjk (April 15, 2018) We love getting updates from ER partner Seed Of Love. Junie Antinero, his staff and volunteers go the extra mile to make kids with cancer feel special, despite their challenging circumstances Seed Of Love provides an...
Directors Inspire, Challenge Extreme Response
ER is blessed with a creative, talented, compassionate and dedicated board of directors. The board keeps ER leadership accountable, offers strategic input and challenges us to think bigger. The ER Board meets twice annually in person, plus engages via committees,...
Elegant Fashions Fights Human Trafficking
Many people are angry at the injustice of human trafficking. By launching Elegant Fashions, Katie Martinez is doing something awesome in response. By Tim Fausch, ER Communications As a farm girl in Iowa, Katie Martinez didn't set out to help human trafficking victims....
Batang Matinik Promotes Piggeries
ER partner Batang Matinik runs the Algang Nanay piggery project to produce inspiring outcomes of changed lives in Quezon City, Philippines. Originally launched to help women generate income by raising pigs (see below), Algang Nanay (Mother’s Care) has helped turn one...
ER Volunteer Invents ‘The Shoe That Grows’
By Tim Fausch, ER Communications After graduating from college, Kenton Lee thought he might become a missionary. He wanted to help people, especially kids, and set out on a journey to discover his life course by serving as an ER volunteer. Having grown up in the small...
Finding the Right Path to Success
Path Project is a long-time ER partner. The organization operates after-school programs in several mobile home parks in Georgia and Tennessee. Co-founder Melinda Hollandsworth shared the story of Sophia in Path Project's most recent newsletter. It's a great example of...
Buen Pastor Helps School Kids Blossom
By Tim Fausch, ER Communications It was not just another day at the Buen Pastor Inglesia elementary school. A young boy ran out of the classroom filled with joy, headed down the stairs and found his father in the school courtyard. He held the bag up high like a boy...
Kindle Orphan Outreach Fans the Flames
By Dawn Carnill Mrs. Zione Maloni is a widowed mother of eight from a small village in Malawi. She’s also a beneficiary of the Kindle Orphan Outreach Kolezani program. Kolezani means “kindle a fire” and comes from the idea of fanning a small spark into a brightly...
African Hope Trust Fills Kids’ Need for Love
Alyssa Carrel recently returned from a brief stint as a volunteer with ER partner African Hope Trust. Here she details its work with vulnerable children and its plans to build a new safe house. My time at African Hope Trust (AHT) was brief, but oh how refreshing. I...
Samuel’s Trees Bring Hope to Haiti Community
By Krischelle Frost and Bonita Sparling, Lemuel Ministries (April 2, 2015) True transformational change often happens like a tree grows…slowly, imperceptibly. For more than 60 years, Mérilia Dumesle (Grann) has lived on the Plateau. She has seen the years of plenty...
