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Clean water changing lives in Nallathanniya

I just received a wonderful update from Celeste, our director in Sri Lanka. You might recall I took a Honolulu-based company there this year who had just adopted the village of Nallathanniya through our Adopt-a-Village program. Here's Celeste's report on... Continue reading

Posted Dec 17, 2012 at Pangeo

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How asking for the toilet saved babies

Asking where to use the toilet can end up saving babies. I'm at a conference of our worldwide village-coaching staff, here in Indonesia. One of our staff told this story today: "A few years years ago when we had just... Continue reading

Posted Nov 5, 2012 at Pangeo

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Video: Bonding with a village

This is what it's like for one company to have their heart knit to one poor village on the other side of the world. Recently a Honolulu company chose a Sri Lankan village to help through our Adopt-a-Village program. So... Continue reading

Posted Sep 5, 2012 at Pangeo

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7 days in Tibet

I just returned from my first visit to our work in Tibet. We spent many days with our local director and met with local villages... and a clear picture is emerging for me of our early-stage work with the beautiful... Continue reading

Posted Jun 15, 2012 at Pangeo

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High school group joins hands with Ethiopian Village

Whoever claims that the students of the world can change the world is absolutely right. The student members of Broomfield High School's National Honor Society (in the Denver metro area) have taken on the challenge of adopting a drought-stricken village... Continue reading

Posted May 3, 2012 at Pangeo

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Four American Moms, One Ethiopian Village

What do you get when you introduce Four American moms to one poor Ethiopian village? You get huge compassion. And love. And an eagerness to help in any way they can. Meet Jennifer, Courtney, Heather and Laura (left to right,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 27, 2012 at Pangeo

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Meet our growing Kenya team

We just concluded a fantastic week with our growing Kenya team. From left to right meet Dire, Dire, Habiba, Hassan and Wubshet. What a hard-working and effective team! My teammate Jonathan and I just spent a week with them, hearing... Continue reading

Posted Feb 23, 2012 at Pangeo

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How to Save a Village $Thousands$

What if you tried to help a poor village get water, and bankrupted it in the process? It happens. And it's not good. And that's why we visited one of Africa's top windpump companies today here in Kenya. Because wind... Continue reading

Posted Feb 18, 2012 at Pangeo

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Women form peace walk near our Kenyan villages

Isiolo town is our staff's base in central Kenya, as they diligently help the surrounding poor villages. Violence between tribal groups again escalated there in recent months, ebbing and flowing. Deaths have occurred sometimes weekly. And our staff are wisely... Continue reading

Posted Jan 25, 2012 at Pangeo

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Good News from Kenya

I just had a great video call with Wubshet & Habiba in Kenya. They shared several pieces of good news: The recent tribal fighting has subsided. Things had gotten bad, with one particular tribe killing over a dozen people from... Continue reading

Posted Dec 2, 2011 at Pangeo

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Meet our Nigerian staff

I'm now in Cairo, Egypt. We've gathered our staff from 13 countries of Africa and the Middle East... giving further training in how to help poor villages with Transformational Community Development. It's been a great week. We now have staff... Continue reading

Posted Oct 6, 2011 at Pangeo

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Meet our Indonesian team

I'm here in Bangalore, India. We've gathered our Asian staff for a week of training in how to better help villages with Transformational Community Development. Meet Phil and John, our GHNI staff in Indonesia. I'll be taking people to Indonesia... Continue reading

Posted Oct 6, 2011 at Pangeo

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Kaltuma saves lives in her village

Kaltuma (pictured right), and a dozen amazing women and men like her, will now save lives in their villages. How? It's all because of our freshly-conducted training for volunteer Community Health Workers (CHWs) from each of the four villages we're... Continue reading

Posted Aug 15, 2011 at Pangeo

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Four Villages to Help Transform

This week's volunteer trip is more complicated than ever because we've expanded GHNI's work to FOUR villages in this area. We call it a "village cluster." They ALL need water. They ALL need schools. They ALL need to learn how... Continue reading

Posted Jul 28, 2011 at Pangeo

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In the summer of 2009 our Gambella village was attacked by the neighboring village. Seven Gambella men were shot and killed, and over 1,000 animals were stolen. Desperate drought here breeds such violence. But this water well being drilled may... Continue reading

Posted Jul 24, 2011 at Pangeo

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World-Changers in Geneva

Last week I was invited to address a gathering of developing-world leaders in Geneva, Switzerland. What a powerful week! The Geneva Institute for Leadership and Public Policy helps developing-world leaders craft policy to help the poor in their nation have... Continue reading

Posted Jul 13, 2011 at Pangeo

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How Moms Adopted a Village in 3 Hours 10 minutes, online

It was the realization of a crazy idea. And it's now a game-changer. If you've followed this blog for a while you know that our new Adopt-a-Village program has focused on finding local groups like businesses, churches and civic orgs... Continue reading

Posted Apr 19, 2011 at Pangeo

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A Village Calls Its Partners... on Satellite Video!

Very early the other morning, village leaders from Bulesa Dima wiped sleep from their eyes and trudged their way in the dark to an open field to wait for dawn by our truck. Why? Because they wanted to meet their... Continue reading

Posted Mar 31, 2011 at Pangeo

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Partners helping a new village!

It's exciting to be able to help new villages, like Bulesa Dima! I posted 7 months ago about this new village needing help. Several gracious businesses and churches then stepped up to become Village Partners for them. So we're now... Continue reading

Posted Mar 16, 2011 at Pangeo

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Soccer in Garmaam village

Few things speak as universally as playing sports with kids. We had nothing to do while we waited for some materials to be delivered for the latrine... so a spontaneous soccer game broke out with some boys in the school... Continue reading

Posted Feb 24, 2011 at Pangeo

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Talking in 3 languages :)

It's always an honor to speak to a new village when we come! Garmaam village welcomed us last night. And I wanted to let them know that people around the world are hearing their story, cheering them on and jumping... Continue reading

Posted Feb 21, 2011 at Pangeo

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Clean water into a village!

It's so basic. It's so critical. It's so necessary. Our first project with this new village of Ola Nagele was to help them figure out how to get clean water into their village. This week, it happened! Our GHNI staff... Continue reading

Posted Feb 18, 2011 at Pangeo

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Amazing little Mi Tho's face- and life-reconstruction!

Remember our funding drive last year to get facial-reconstructive surgery for little Mi Tho? She's the little girl in one of our Myanmar villages that we began helping after it was devastated by cyclone Nargis. Many of you pitched in... Continue reading

Posted Jan 12, 2011 at Pangeo

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Hi Meg... I'm glad the article was helpful! It sounds like you are involved in a great effort there for true community transformation. Blessings!

Commented Dec 27, 2010 on Another village, ready for adoption... Bulesa Dima! at Pangeo

Wanted: YOUR ideas, thots, experiences

Today we turn this blog from a speech into a party. So far, I've been writing here about practical help being given to some of the poorest villages of the world. It's been my speech and you've been kind enough... Continue reading

Posted Dec 9, 2010 at Pangeo

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