Stories

Cameroon: Cooking classes grow healthier kids
In the isolated region of far western Cameroon, village women could see that their children were getting sick too...

Hong Kong: Mr Yang’s birthday gift
For some, life deals multiple blows, often in ways we find unimaginable. It is good, though, to stop, every...

Instrumental Donations
A young Hong Kong widow, struggling to manage after losing her husband to cancer, told us she desperately longed to find...

FABBAs helps to transform Ugandan slum school
It might not look like a treasure chest. But the 40 foot shipping container outside the only school in Kamwokya slum...

Fiji: HK kids give village school a hand up
Behind the perfect beaches and five star resorts, much of Fiji’s rural population lives in poverty, with many unable to...

A Summer to serve: Crossroads’ 2014 interns
Standing before Joseph was a woman in crisis. After being violently abused by her husband, the woman had taken...

Hearts and Hands: Joining hands with China’s deaf artisans
Lei Mei, of China, was 25 when she suddenly lost her hearing. She’s not sure exactly how it happened,...

Philippines: Healing after Haiyan
Two families in Barangay Bacabac, Philippines were huddled together in a village building as the worst typhoon in the country’s...

Kenya: Korogocho’s trash-pickers
At first, the gigantic garbage dump outside Korogocho slum in Kenya looks as you’d expect: hideous, grey mountains of...