by kbarsoum | Mar 19, 2013 | "The Widow's Cause", Approaches to Charity and Development
Inflation and insecurity have driven Egypt’s markets to become more local, and more focused on the basics. The result has been hard-hitting for Egypt’s widowed households, who already struggle for life’s necessities. But the new, more informal local...
by Nermien Riad | Mar 12, 2013 | Approaches to Charity and Development
Every day seemed exactly the same since her father passed away. They lived hand-to-mouth when her father was alive, but now Nadine lived in an empty shell of life: living on handouts, but with never enough to fill the stomach. Like her mother, Nadine never learned how...
by kbarsoum | Mar 5, 2013 | Approaches to Charity and Development
In the vast majority of cases, [upper-class, North American churches] describe poverty differently than the poor in low-income countries do. While poor people mention having a lack of material things, they tend to describe their condition in a far more psychological...
by kbarsoum | Feb 26, 2013 | Approaches to Charity and Development
Relationships are where transformation happens. Transformational Development focuses on the development of personhood in community and through community, understanding that the Holy Spirit works in both persons and communities through relationships. That’s why...
by Nermien Riad | Jan 29, 2013 | Approaches to Charity and Development
In El Fashn diocese of Beni Suef, there’s a village with no church. Christians there had to travel to a bigger village to attend the Divine Liturgy and receive the Eucharist every week. But when Salafis from the bigger village saw crowds of strangers flocking to the...
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by kbarsoum | Jan 21, 2013 | Approaches to Charity and Development
Orphanages filled with children that have parents? Kids graduating from school, but never learning how to read? Nermien Riad talks about startling problems she encountered when starting Coptic Orphans in Egypt 25 years ago, and how she discovered ready answers in the...
