A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Saturday morning, causing widespread destruction in an area still recovering from Hurricane Matthew in 2016. Nearly 1,300 people have died, a number that will likely rise. At the same time, Tropical Depression Grace is dumping rain on the country, bringing fears of landslides or contaminated drinking water. The country
Ericka Violeta Esteban, a young woman in the Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Orphan Program, will be representing Guatemala at the 2021 Paralympics this August in Tokyo, Japan. When Esteban was 6 months old, she fell out of the crib and was in a coma for a month. She suffered from a cerebral palsy disorder called monoplegia
Superintendent of Guatemala’s Atlantic District, Mario Pineda, had some unexpected news when he received a call from Mr. Pedro Cortes, leader of COCODES, the Community Council for Urban and Rural Development, in the community of Nueva Bendicion in Izabal, Guatemala. The community leader asked Pineda to meet with him because he had something to give
In the small community of Fourgie which is part of Croix-de-Bouquets commune in Haiti, there is a church named Evangelical chapel of the body of Christ (Chappelle Evangelique Corps de Christ) where there is also an orphanage called “Love the kids” and it has been working since 2009 with 45 children. In the past 10
