We’ve just wrapped up another holiday season. Christmas decor is being packed away, Times Square is probably still getting cleaned up, and turkeys are able to breathe a little easier for a while. Whether it’s the festive lights, the copious…
Lawrence, a former fisherman, lives on Mbabala Island in Zambia. He and his family could barely survive on the fish he could catch. Fish stocks had fallen in the overfished local Zambian lake. Desperate to provide for his family, Lawrence…
Good news, bad news. Good news first: 89% of the world’s population has access to electricity.* Bad news: A little more than 1 out of every 10 people still do not. Great progress has been made in the last decade…
We shared hundreds of stories and photos and videos with you in 2019. We love to know what touched you deep down in your soul—what made you laugh or cry…and what encouraged you in the fight against extreme poverty. So…
Can you believe 2019 is almost over! So, did you accomplish everything you set out to do on January 1, 2019? Did you keep your New Year’s Resolution for the last 363 days? Yeah, me either. Far from it! I’m…
“Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.” -C.S. Lewis Once, thousands of years later, in a small clinic in rural Uganda, a baby was born and named Emmanuel…“God with us.”…
I was near the end of my run when I suddenly tripped on a bump in the sidewalk. As I fell face first towards the sidewalk, I managed to hurt my head, my shoulder, my elbow, my knee and my…
We captured Noah’s first. steps. ever. on video. Watch it below—it’s likely to make you tear up a little… or at the very least make you smile real, real big. This…. This is why we do what we do. It…
Transparency is a good thing, right? Well, today we’ll be a little transparent with you—because everybody knows we all make mistakes anyway, right? Bright Hope President C.H. Dyer shared, as part of a panel for Forbes Nonprofit Council, a common…
“We have named our chickens ‘dream launchers.’ They have helped us launch our dream of educating our children. We never lack seeds for our garden and we are able to…boost nutrition in our home.” –Shafiq, chicken recipient Animals have the…