
Rescue Orphans in Mozambique
Learn how you can help Cross Catholic Outreach rescue AIDS orphans, vulnerable children and impoverished elderly citizens in Mozambique.
Delivering food, shelter, and hope to the poorest of the poor
Learn how you can help Cross Catholic Outreach rescue AIDS orphans, vulnerable children and impoverished elderly citizens in Mozambique.
Malawi’s education system is overextended, which leads to poor educational outcomes and a variety of other issues. Learn about the problems and solutions here.
Just 33 percent of Zambia’s 18.4 million people have access to basic sanitation services. Learn about Zambia’s water crisis here.
In Ghana, scarcity of water, pollution, and waterborne illnesses impact nearly every aspect of daily life. Learn about the Ghana water crisis here.
This is Weetherson Pierre, a nursing student I met on a recent mission trip. As a scholarship recipient of the Haitian Education Leadership Program (HELP), a CCO-sponsored program at the University of Notre Dame-Haiti, the country’s only Catholic university, Weetherson is not only a straight-A student, he is required to live by principals that are firmly rooted in Christian doctrines.
A couple of weeks ago, as I attended my fifth-grade son’s open house, I marveled at how much technology American children have at their disposal. It was the end of the year, and the kids were turning in the laptops their school had provided for homework. Yes, school-provided laptops! I compared this to my experiences traveling in the developing world. Students there were lucky if they had electricity, much less access to a computer.
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