What motivates someone to leave their home to go and help suffering people and perhaps face serious danger? Conscience International specializes in reaching out to people in times of crisis.
Conscience International Photo— Above: In blue jacket: Will Morris, Refugee Program Director, Romania, with other youth volunteers. Photo far left, Luke Maddox and Kyle Beckler in Odessa, Ukraine
Sometimes our teams board planes within hours of hearing about a disaster, carrying only a backpack, traveling half a world away to help under unbelievably difficult conditions. This has been our pattern over the past three decades. You may think that our volunteers are motivated by a sense of adventure, and that is partly true. But mere adventure does not keep people engaged for months under hardship conditions, sleeping in tents, on the deck of a ship, or on the floor with rats running across their feet, enduring devastating heat and unbearable cold, living sometimes on bread, rice, plantains and water. Something deeper than the excitement of new places and exotic locales is required. It’s compassion for the sufferer. That’s what our staff and volunteers have done this year in Guatemala, Nigeria, Jordan, Iraq, Bangladesh, Haiti, Ethiopia, Romania, and Ukraine. They deserve encouragement and help. Please consider what you can do.
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
