COVID-19 Crisis Response Five & Two Network is a global community of change makers and activists collaborating to fight poverty. We help vulnerable communities transform from the inside out. We get behind local groups who share our vision rather than hiring local people to run our programs. From formal organizations, to grassroots associations, we offer training and support with the goal of making our members effective and sustainable. Through the Five & Two Network, practitioners from over a dozen countries are collaborating together to help vulnerable communities reach their developmental goals. We are using our same ABCD Asset [...]

COVID-19 Crisis Response This year due to COVID-19 many camp staff and leaders of these camps must stay home and have to cope with their personal, job, and ministry challenges alone. The camps involve over 60,000 campers in exposing them to the gospel in a camp environment. Regular camp operations are in question for this summer, but children and youth will still be waiting for miracles from their camp teams. Urgent Needs The Association of Christian Camps and Conference Centers in Ukraine, Moldova, and Transcaucasia is bringing these camps and their leaders together to be equipped through [...]

COVID-19 Crisis Response Lighthouse Voyage exists to be a beacon of hope for sex-trafficked women and children in India. A pandemic threat like the COVID-19 crisis affects every population without prejudice, and we stand to speak for those whose voices cannot be heard through the global outcry in this season. By providing shelter, care, and rehabilitation to those individuals who are neglected and abused by their own communities, we provide healing and hope in a part of the world not characterized by widespread access to healthcare or social programs in the ways that North America is blessed to [...]

COVID-19 Crisis Response In Uganda, the government declared a total lock-down due to Corona Virus outbreak in March 2020.  All schools, businesses, public transport, and all non-essential public and privates services were suspended and people are asked to stay at their homes.   Once all schools were closed, all the children came back to our Child Support Centre in Kampala.  This means that we must provide extra hand washing cisterns, soap, sanitizers, masks and medication and a daily healthy diet to keep them safe.  Some of the children and youth who living with HIV/AIDS are most at risk since [...]

COVID-19 Crisis Response In East Africa, the CORONA SPRING may become a time of despair. So many people at risk hunger and even death. Although the number of infected persons is still low, we know that the COVID-19 crisis also has the potential to create a severe food security crisis in Africa. The region’s fragile health systems could quickly get overloaded in a widespread outbreak. FAO is particularly concerned about “the pandemic’s impacts on vulnerable communities already grappling with hunger or other crises such as the desert locust outbreak in the Horn of Africa”.  (sourced from: SCMP 19.04.20) [...]