Stories
Re-building after Typhoon Sendong
When Typhoon Sendong hit the Philippines in December 2011, Merlinda and her husband knew they were looking death in...
Po Leung Kok Elderly Home, Hong Kong
That point had come for the Chen family. Four months after Mrs Chen’s stroke, her speech had not returned...
Mr Wong: A new start in old age
We were no doubt naïve, but we found it all too easy to assume that a prisoner, when released...
Marquee Tent from Credit Suisse
When Hong Kong turns up the heat, it’s no picnic! Crossroads doesn’t stop shipping aid throughout the summer but...
Oasis Workshop, Bethlehem
In the dusty refugee camps, towns and villages around Bethlehem, people with mental disabilities can often be shunned and...
UN-business partnership: Empowering women in Sudan
Recent years have seen intolerable suffering for women in the conflict-ridden country of Sudan where they have, systematically, been...
New Life from Dried Grass in Swaziland
“This epidemic is creating a nation of widows,” said an NGO worker in Swaziland, speaking of the AIDS crisis...
Hope in Rural Cameroon
There are between 1 million and 4 million child labourers in Cameroon aged between 5-14. Some of them work...
Hunan Ethnic Crafts
Meiman, of China, knows the meaning of fair trade first hand. For almost a year, Meiman worked in a...
