Though it’s based right here in Asheville, WORLD magazine, one of the country’s oldest Christian news magazines, sends reporters to locales all over the globe, including war-wracked hot spots. Telling the news: Mindy Belz (second from left) and other WORLD staff with Iraqi government officials in the streets of Kirkuk. The magazine has reported extensively […]
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A bridge to Africa: Motherland International
There’s no shortage of disease and poverty in Africa. But for Christopher Keiser-Liontree—co-founder of Motherland International Relations—there’s another way to see the continent. Making connections: Christopher Keiser-Liontree (center-left), co-founder of Motherland International Relations, on his third trip to Ghana in 1998, where he was a facilitator with a group that built a Habitat for Humanity. […]
Books as building blocks in Bolivia: BiblioWorks
The premise behind BiblioWorks is simple: Books build communities. Over the past four years, the nonprofit has opened six libraries across Bolivia, mostly in rural areas, with the help of Peace Corps volunteers and Bolivian churches, authorities and nonprofit agencies. Young readers: Children in Morado K’asa, Bolivia, celebrated the opening of their first library in […]
Teaching Jamaica’s teachers: WCU’s Jamaica Program
On the campus of Western Carolina University, it’s simply called “the Jamaica Program.” Graduation day: These students are graduates of Western Carolina University’s master of arts in education program with a concentration in college administration, which is based in Discovery Bay, Jamaica. The university has been involved in teaching Jamaica’s young teachers for four decades. […]
Planetary education: David McConville
David McConville is a world traveler and a knowledge explorer. Like other Asheville residents who have an impact around the world, McConville can be hard to keep up with. In his work as a media artist and researcher who specializes in the development of dome-based display technologies, he travels the world. But McConville is also […]
Giving Moldovan children a chance: Moldova World Children’s Fund
What’s a crazy sailor doing in a landlocked country like Moldova? Caring for kids: Ray West of the Moldova World Children’s Fund, shown here in an orphanage in Balti, Moldova, about five years ago, has helped repair schools and funded educational scholars It’s a question that sometimes comes to mind when Ray West talks about […]
The eye of the storm: Hearts With Hands
While many international aid organizations focus long-term efforts and energies on a specific population or location, Hearts With Hands’ work is determined by the disaster du jour. From hurricanes to tsunamis, the group turns its attention wherever the latest large-scale crisis has erupted. Healing touch: Dr. Maureen McLaughlin-Grant examines a patient at the Hearts With […]
A million orphans: World Camp
The small southern-African nation of Malawi is considered one of the world’s most impoverished places. Apart from malnutrition due to lack of food, the country also suffers from an extremely high illiteracy rate and an HIV/AIDS epidemic that has left the country with an orphan population estimated at more than 1 million. A giant leap: […]
Immense opportunities, overwhelming needs: Christian Friends of Korea
When the Rev. Billy Graham made his much-touted visit to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, in 1992, there wasn’t much information flowing in or out of a country devastated by war and in the grip of a dictatorship. Opening doors: Top row, left to right: the Rev. Bill Moore, the Rev. John Somerville (Montreat), Lee […]
Succoring the “sick men” of Nicaragua: Vision Nicaragua
There’s a long-standing relationship between Christian evangelism and providing material aid. Vision Nicaragua does both, attending to the spiritual needs of several Nicaraguan communities while also supplying shelter, medical aid and financial support. Setting up shop: Asheville electrician Scott Bruns (center) teaches Nicaraguans Marlon and Melvin (seated) some basic electrical principles, with Carlos, a local […]
Shoulder to shoulder: Mundo Real
The slums of Rio de Janeiro have a global reputation for extreme poverty and unchecked violence, thanks to high-profile news reports as well as their starring role in the acclaimed 2002 movie City of God. The crammed-together shanties, stacked one atop another along the hillsides of Brazil’s second-largest city, house a large and rapidly growing […]