What's Happening Now

It was a life-changing moment when Matthew Coley stepped into the surgery tent at the emergency field hospital near Mosul, Iraq and saw the eight- month- old infant girl who had lost both her legs above the knee, a victim of an ISIS attack.

As soon as Conscience International volunteer Robert Smucker arrived in Kurdistan, he helped load a truck with 1200 thirty-pound boxes of rice and 2400 six-packs of half-liter jars of baby food, and headed to Camp Jamakor twenty-five miles east of worn-torn Mosul.

Building a grade school in Shambhuganj, Bangladesh was only a dream when Richard Sarker, Conscience International Project Director for Southeast Asia, began talking with local leaders a few years ago.  Now the school is a reality and donors are feeding the children.

It was 4:30AM Easter morning. Robert Smucker, with two companions on a rare break from their humanitarian work, grabbed head lamps and began the 90-minute trek up the mountain to Kizilhisar Castle. But down below, in the refugee camps, the scene was not serene at all.

At 9:56AM, in a hospital in Ethiopia, Dr. Ted Belanger     and his spinal surgery team from the Texas Back Institute in Dallas, Texas, made the first incision on the first patient of the day. Hours later, would the patient, who arrived at the hospital bent all the way over at the waist, stand tall with a straight back?

In October 2016, a Category 5 hurricane swept out of the Atlantic and dumped its 150mph winds and rain over Haiti—the strongest storm to hit the poor country since Hurricane Cleo in 1964, killing hundreds. Conscience International rushed teams in as part of a mass humanitarian aid effort. Our teams are still working there.

Dressed as a Pakistani for security reasons, Conscience International Southeast Asia Project Director Richard Sarker, a native of Bangladesh, visited Pakistan in June, 2017 where he met several women who were interested in receiving training courses to become seamstresses and beauticians.

Richard Sarker, Conscience International Project Director for Southeast Asia, flew to Vietnam in June, 2017 to visit an orphanage started by locals.