In a project that could aptly be dubbed, “New Eyes, New Outlooks”, Dr. John Brinkley, in collaboration with Saltillo based FCF partner project Silver Lining, has for the second year in a row, visited Saltillo to fit underprivileged patients with needed eye prosthetics.

Utilizing the help of short-term volunteers visiting from abroad, Family Care Cambodia (FCC) has undertaken new programs in the communities of Okokee, Sen Sabbay, and Siem Riep.

Romania, once amongst the most prosperous and cultured of European countries before being devastated by years of Communist rule, no longer has adequate Social Security to cover the needs of its elderly citizens.

The following is a letter dictated to us by a thankful mother who has two children in our school, which reveals the extreme difficulties faced by many families here.

Healing Hearts Kosovo promotes reconciliation between different ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia, helping minority groups to overcome their sense of isolation.

Healing Hearts Kosovo promotes reconciliation between different ethnic groups in the former Yugoslavia, helping minority groups to overcome their sense of isolation.

Like its neighboring project featured above, FIVS became involved in Croatia in the immediate aftermath of the Yugoslavian War, procuring and delivering aid to local refugee camps, orphanages, hospitals, schools, and centers for underprivileged and handicapped children.

Project Managers Josef Suess and David Mazzotti of Polio Child Relief (PCR) are working to better the life of polio victims in the Mumbai (Bombay) area, along with Doctor Paresh Desai of Shradda Hospital.

Mingmar Sherpa is a young married man, only 23 years old, from the remote village of Phapre, in the Everest Region of Nepal.

Balkans Relief Mission was initiated during the Yugoslavian War with the purpose of providing emotional solace and material aid to children and families in refugee camps, military hospitals and children's centers in Croatia and Slovenia.

Last week, the world's major news outlets reported the desperate dash to freedom of 25 North Korean defectors who sought asylum at the Spanish Embassy in Beijing.

Coming from different backgrounds and countries as diverse as Botswana, Norway, Pakistan and China, a team of 11 young women (ages 17-21) from the Li Po Chun United World College in Hong Kong, converged at our Bangkok center for hands-on experience in working with orphans.

FCF project manager David Lykins, whose organization addresses these problems, begins, "Our annual end-of-summer shoe and clothing collection has begun, with several companies asking us for assistance in moving goods from their warehouses."

On July 4, 2003, four young North Korean refugees gain their independence upon entering a foreign consulate in China. At the last moment their safe passage is almost thwarted, as Chinese police try to drag these four teenagers out of the building in order to arrest and deport them back to North Korea.

Astrakhan Initiative for Minors (AIM) has, for the past few years, conducted classes and seminars for displaced Russian youth in Astrakhan, and provided free medical help courtesy of volunteer doctors and staff.

In late 1999, Chris Carruthers moved to East Africa, with the goal of addressing social issues within a contemporary Gospel message in his RadioActive Productions studio.