What's Happening Now

BY JAMES JENNINGS, PhD, Founder and President Conscience International

The Coronavirus pandemic has stunned the world. Entire populations are affected by illness, economic collapse, and fear of death, being forced to remain isolated and inactive until the crisis is over. Yet breakdown offers opportunity!  Finding peace in this distressing situation is very challenging, but there is a path that works:

Even before Covid-19 became a household word, a medical assessment mission to Niger, West Africa, led by Dr. James Jennings, President of Conscience International, in 2018, was planning a shipment of new medical equipment and supplies to hospitals in a country that is hard-pressed for medical staff and profoundly lacking in materials to meet needs.

Eight-year-old Osman and his family thought they were finally getting out of war-ravished Syria. In 2017, seven years into a war that has shattered so much of their homeland, demolished homes, devastated families and traumatized lives, he and his family were at last fleeing Aleppo—on foot. But on the road Osman was hit by a passing car. Tragically, he would lose both of his legs, near his hips—an unexpected misfortune of war.

In 2014, three years after the war in Syria began, yet another family was forced to flee Aleppo in fear. Abandoning their home and virtually everything they owned, they made it to Kilis, Turkey and on to Istanbul where their daughter, Nora, was born in 2017. They were safe from the war, but not from a new problem. Nora was born with Lordosis of the lower spine, a curvature just above the buttocks causing swayback.

…to some of the hardest places in the world. While we can’t go ourselves because of Covid-19 lock-downs, our local partners can, and they need your help.

It’s a fact we are all living with—a world-wide virus crisis-- but in many parts of the globe families are living in perpetual crisis through no fault of their own.  While our discomfort and inconveniences are hopefully temporary, theirs go on year to year. Add the possibility of the virus to their hardships.

A single communicable disease, CORONAVIRUS/Covid-19, has now turned into a PANDEMIC, affecting hundreds of millions of people all over the world.

In 2016, Firas, 33, was standing in front of his home in Duma, Syria when it was bombed by a military fighter jet.