What's Happening Now

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.

Refugee Children from Syria and migrants from many other countries suffer for many months in transition camps in Greece because they are blocked from returning home and forbidden to stay in Europe.

Conscience International has been helping refugees in Jordan for many years. We sent another team to Jordan this year to visit long time partners who are assisting Syrian and Iraqi refugees.