Decades of responding to disasters and helping people in some of the world’s most desperate refugee camps raises a lot of practical and moral questions. People ask, “What will happen to us?” “Why was I born in Haiti or Bangladesh and not the United States?” Even more troubling is the fact that today’s problems seem to be multiplying, with wars, natural disasters, refugee flows, great increases in economic migration, and depletion of the environment looming over all.
Afghanistan is facing the threat of starving multitudes. There is a severe famine in Northern Nigeria. Venezuela’s money is worthless and its civil society ruined. Once prosperous, Lebanon’s poverty rate is 78%. Terrorism seems uncontrollable. Added to all this is growing great power belligerency. Conscience International acts on the adage that “It’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” We do what we can, where we can, if we can, whenever an emergency arises that we have the human and financial resources to address. We don’t think that’s spreading ourselves too thin. Instead, it is actively demonstrating the kind of humane spirit that should be part of all of us when we see a need or an injustice that we can do something about.
Turning our backs on a dystopian world is not an option. This year by acting together, we can build an orphanage in Burkina Faso, West Africa, feed children living in garbage dumps in Guatemala, and help war-wounded people in Iraq and Congo to walk. Join us—you can make a difference!
You can help support schools for Afghan boys and girls who are now refugees in Pakistan after fleeing the Taliban in their native Afghanistan
Wisdom from Dr. Seuss: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It’s not!"
The Garbage Dumps of Guatemala
Rescuing the most vulnerable—the children of Guatemala
Taking action in cooperation with Mi Especial Tesoro, an NGO in Chimaltenango, Conscience International is focusing on education, food, and life skills support for 241 low-income students, ages five to 15, who have been rescued from human trafficking, abusive home environments, and living in garbage dumps-- their “playground” in search of food and items they can sell. Until the circle of life they have inherited is broken and replaced with hope, they have none. Will you help?
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Aiding the desperate people fleeing Afghanistan
With the massive flow of refugees out of Afghanistan and into Pakistan following the departure of U.S. troops and the re-occupation of the country by the terrorist group, Taliban, families outside and inside Afghan borders are again in a life-threatening situation. Religious conflict continues. A mob burned a man for blasphemy and an Episcopal priest was killed. Pakistan government approval to give aid is required. But with hard-won consent in hand, a Conscience International team arrived in Pakistan ahead of the cold winter months to work with our local partners to deliver food packages, quilts, pillows, fuel and other cold-weather items to more than 200 families. Conscience International President Dr. James Jennings was able to meet secretly with a young Afghan refugee teacher who was forced to flee under death threats when the Taliban closed his school. Plans are underway to start classes for refugee students now in Pakistan.
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Conscience International, P. O. Box 1163, Alpharetta, GA 30009
In Turkey, three out of 1,000 babies are born with Spina Bifida, an anomaly where the spine and the spinal cord do not fully develop and close. Conscience International is helping one 7-year-old girl who has been in treatment four years. Until recently she was unable to move and could only lie in bed. Starting with two or three physiotherapy sessions a week, and continuing treatment during the pandemic through on-line communication with her family, her muscles are stronger, and she has been able to start school this year. Therapy must continue in hopes she will soon walk on her own.
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Please consider a donation on-line
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Conscience International, P. O. Box 1163, Alpharetta, GA 30009
Famine in Nigeria!
When the rains didn’t come to northern Nigeria in August 2021, terrorism and starvation did. Two hundred died and 10,000 fled as their village burned. Crops withered and failed in the drought. In Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara, and Sokoto States with nothing to harvest and sell for income, and little to feed their own families, the people are starving. Conscience International is committed to supplying food staples for 1230 families (8600 people) among the Hausa in 17 villages. But unless the rains come, or help is given, 2022 will bring even more disaster and death.
Because Covid – and hunger—don’t take a holiday, in Guatemala Conscience International delivered 1000 disposable face masks, 400 N95 masks, 80 liters of hand-sanitizer, 80 liters of hospital grade sanitizer, 50 body suits, 50 face shields, and 4,000 disposable gloves to one clinic and one company of firefighters attending Covid patients during the Christmas season. In Taxisco, a new community of 16 free homes built by Conscience International, 80 meals and 50 bags of food staples were presented to families. And in Venezuela, Conscience International sponsored 541 Christmas meals in 8 locations, with a similar outreach in Vietnam.
YOU CAN HELP THEM
Please consider a donation on-line
www.conscienceinternational.org
Or by mail:
Conscience International, P. O. Box 1163, Alpharetta, GA 30009
