Hope shines a light in the darkness. It’s infectious, even healing. But what is there to be hopeful for? Let’s look at the year ahead with 17 reasons to have hope in 2017 — and how to pray them into reality.
Hunger
Humanitarian world news: Rich-poor food disparity increases
Humanitarian world news brings you a weekly selection of events and trends impacting people and the humanitarian community worldwide. This week’s top news includes a new study that highlights the widening rich-poor food disparity, the UN’s new leader, child workers freed in India, and the mistaken bombing of refugee camp in Nigeria.
US Work
Be an advocate: Change your country, community
Becoming an advocate is easy. You have what it takes to speak up and act on behalf of children and families in need. Why wait? Do something today.
Refugees
Forced to flee: Top 5 countries refugees are coming from
More than 65 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced from their homes, the most since World War II, the UN Refugee Agency says. Almost 21.3 million of them have fled outside their own countries as refugees. Here’s a look at five countries that produce the most refugees.