“I Never Thought My Children Would Have a Home”
Maria Mendoza made $30 a week. She worked 14-hour days to help feed her husband, Sergio, and their five children. Life was hard for the Mendoza family in Durango, Mexico. It was almost impossible to find any job, let alone one that paid a living wage. They made the difficult decision to leave their relatives […]
Poor Eyesight Will Not Stop Paola!
*Paola (right) and her mother in their home town in Guatemala. Paola is 12 years old and from a very poor family.She never asks her parents for anything. She is grateful for what she has, which is very little. Paola lives in Guatemala, a very impoverished country. She lives with her family in an isolated […]
Survival in a Forgotten Corner of the World: Zeinabou’s Story
Zeinabou is a young wife and mother in Niger. Her family depends on her for their survival. When she contracted a life-threatening disease, your gift provided medicines that saved her life. Niger. Do you know where it is? Most people don’t know much about it or even where it is located. It’s a forgotten corner […]
Nurse, Lieutenant Colonel, Mother, Volunteer, Donor
Kelly Hardiman has cared for others her entire life. It’s what she does best.
I was an orphan. Now I am a college student!
Kids Kingdom is an orphanage in Ensenada, Mexico that provides a loving, warm environment for abused, abandoned, and neglected children.
An Orphan in Mexico Finds a Safe Haven
The loving home at the orphanage has shown her the world can actually be a happy, wonderful place.
A Housewife without a House in Puerto Rico
A Hurricane Maria victim copes with her new reality one year after the devastating storm
Caring for Poor Patients around the World: A Volunteer Story
Evelyn takes care of people. It’s what she does best. She has traveled to Central and South America, Asia, and Africa to treat surgical patients who otherwise would not have access to life-transforming procedures.
“This Food Saved Us”
Elena and her girls are a part of our “Feeding San Diego’s Kids” program and they receive a backpack filled with food every week.
A Little House in Tijuana = A New Life for A Single Mom of Three
When I first met Mari two years ago, she was living with her three children in a tiny two-room shelter with dirt floors and a tarp roof on the outskirts of Tijuana, Mexico