What's Happening Now

When wars and natural disasters, pandemics, terrorists and poverty rob the minds of the ‘least of these,’ who they become in the future will impact the world, including you. Young people in global hotspots served by Conscience International are growing up in one or more of these circumstances.

When Conscience International SE Asia Program Director Richard Sarker, and his wife Mary Ann, visited his native village of Shambhuganj in February to oversee the progress of the village’s school built by Conscience International in 2012—and to establish a new school library-- they were surprised with a visit from one of the school’s first students, Riddhy, pictured at right, about age 7.

In August 2021, when the Taliban reclaimed Afghanistan after the American withdrawal, girls were banned from secondary education. As reported by UNICEF, the “education system [in Afghanistan] has been devastated by more than three decades of sustained conflict.

Taxisco: It began in 2018 when communities awoke one Sunday morning to find they had little time to escape the fire and ash flowing from the most active volcano in Guatemala--Volcan Fuego. On that day, it would claim more than 200 lives and leave many more homeless.

In 2022 Conscience International began supporting a rescue and development project in the city where kids, living under the sad sobriquet of ‘dumpster children,’ live, work, and play in garbage waste, competing with adults and vultures to scavenge for food while searching for something of value they can sell.

When French-speaking separatists declared war on the English-speaking region of Cameroon, school children scattered to the jungles, desperately seeking safety.

Conscience International has had staff on the ground in Romania and Ukraine since the first refugees began crossing the Danube in February, 2022, fleeing the war and looking to rebuild their lives in a foreign country where the language and the culture are not their own. 

On Monday, February 20, yet another earthquake—6.4 magnitude, the third to hit the area since the 7.8 earthquake of February 6, — brought more devastation to southern Turkey, revisiting Antakya (modern day Antioch) and sending survivors of the earlier quake scurrying for whatever shelter they could find. Our team is working in the area.