Cauvery grasped the village leader’s hand in desperation. If only she could make him understand her need. She was elderly, poor and unlikely to survive the winter. Couldn’t he see the anguish…
https://vimeo.com/44486158 Would you sacrifice everything you knew and loved to live in a slum in South Asia? By definition, a slum is a densely urban area marked by extreme poverty, filth…
It isn’t your typical church. The believers are society’s greatest rejects, cast out by their employers, friends and even families—all because of the disease they carry. But as Pastor Jiva looks out…
As rain continues to fall over much of Sri Lanka, the country’s death toll from floods and landslides has reached 43 people, and more than 300,000 have been affected by the damage.…
How would she care for her children? How would she provide for their needs? Would she be forced to beg? Or worse? As Taanusiya processed the news of her husband’s sudden death,…
While people around the world celebrated Christmas this week, catastrophic flooding sliced through the island nation of Sri Lanka, leaving thousands homeless and more than 300,000 impacted—many without the basic needs to…
Aadita cried out loudly. Someone was trying to kill her, she screamed. Would anyone save her? Although the pleas broke her heart, Aadita’s mother, Sachika, was hardly moved to action. If she…
“Why can’t the god that my father worships change him?” Sai often asked her mother. Sai’s father, a proud and angry drunkard, made her childhood a nightmare. Sai watched him pray to…
The 65-year-old woman lay still in the small bed. Nabanipa had been confined there for three days and still no one had come. Sickness robbed her of strength, and the elderly widow…
“My husband comes home fully drunk every night,” Bhadra said. “He sleeps anywhere, not bothered by the climate—whether cold or hot. He doesn’t use blankets or bed sheets and will not provide…
