20 Years of Hope: Grace
In April of 2017, we learned of a lovely 14-year-old named Grace who lived with her mom and siblings on the shores of a remote lake in Uganda. Grace suffered from a rare medical condition in which literally THOUSANDS of small tumors filled her abdomen. Weak and suffering from terrible pain, she lived in isolation […]
Read MoreLife at the Landfill: A Conversation with Amy Eldridge
Our CEO, Amy Eldridge, recently returned from visiting our programs in India and Cambodia. She had the opportunity to visit not only our school programs but also the landfill where over 78 of our students live and work in an environment most of us can barely imagine. Can you tell us about the situation on […]
Read More20 Years of Hope: Leona
Leona grew up in a very poor family, living on the edge of a large city dump site where her family would work each day searching for recyclables to sell. She first entered our “Catch Up Class,” a primary school designed to get impoverished children who had missed schooling into the education system at a […]
Read MoreHope for Children at the Landfill: Annalise
This week, we are raising funds to provide hope and education to 78 impoverished children living at a rural landfill site in Cambodia. During the COVID pandemic in Cambodia, Annalise’s family lost employment and had no income at all. They made the move to the local dump site to try to earn enough money to […]
Read MoreHope for Children at the Landfill: Riley
This week, we are working to provide hope and education to 78 impoverished children living at a rural landfill in Cambodia. Twelve-year-old Riley is one of the many precious children whom we found living at a landfill site near our programs in western Cambodia. Years ago, Riley’s parents had left her in the care of […]
Read More20 Years of Hope: Ian
Little Ian came into our care under difficult circumstances. He was born in Uganda in the spring of 2015, and sadly, his mother left when he was just four months old. Ian continued living with his father in a rented home, but around the time of his first birthday, Ian’s father disappeared from his life. […]
Read More20 Years of Hope: Peter
In the spring of 2021, LWB’s India staff learned of Baby Peter who had been born seven months earlier. His parents were prepared for a heart defect that had been detected by ultrasound before Peter’s birth, but after his arrival, it was discovered that Peter had additional medical issues. Since his heart defect turned out […]
Read More20 Years of Hope: Yong
A little over ten years ago, the director of an orphanage in rural China reached out to LWB for assistance. A boy in their care was suffering from a fast-growing facial tumor that was affecting his ability to swallow, chew, and breathe. His name was Yong. Yong underwent a battery of tests, and much to […]
Read MoreEmpower Me Teen: Melody
The Empower Me Teen Program is a lifeline for girls in the poorest regions of Guatemala. Country-wide, records show that only 60 percent of girls will finish primary school, 20 percent will complete secondary school, and only 10 percent will go on to study at a university. Numbers are even more dire for rural, indigenous […]
Read More20 Years of Hope: Albert and Allan
Albert and Allan were born in May of 2008 in a small village in Uganda. In a tragic twist of fate, the boys’ father died before they were born, and they lost their mother just hours after birth. With no relatives to be found on either side of the family, the very kind birth attendant […]
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