What's Happening Now

In Guatemala, firefighters are the first line of defense against the Covid-19 virus, and while government-operated fire departments are supported with government funding for equipment, the Bomberos Voluntarios, volunteer firefighters who work for free, are hard-pressed to find funding for Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), making their job of responding to emergencies a high personal risk.

In Venezuela, a country with one of the weakest health care systems even before the Covid-19 pandemic, with cases and deaths increasing and a government that has until now virtually ignored the plight of its people who are starving from lack of food, Conscience International is on the border--purchasing food and supplies outside of Venezuela for delivery to vulnerable families inside the country despite that government’s constraints on outside aid.  

In spite of re-routed flights, travel restrictions, delayed plans, closed borders, curfews, required self-quarantines, personal risk, and other obstacles, a Conscience International medical team has made it to the borders of Venezuela, Colombia, and Guatemala where they are working with local first responders and our own local partners to aid low income families who are among the most vulnerable engulfed in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic.  

sent Conscience International local teams into emergency mode in June, distributing food to 346 families in the Malali area of Kaduna City in #Malumfashi, #Katsina State.

These are difficult times world-wide, but we cannot forget those who are in the most desperate need. Will you help us help them?

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.