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Unique in His Sight

Having only a 7th standard education, poor and struggling to make ends meet, Sakshi’s parents felt caught in a web from which they couldn’t free themselves. Their little daughter had…

Syria: first 10 days of May ‘disappointing’ for humanitarian work – UN advisor

12 May 2016 – The first 10 days of May have been “disappointing” for aid work in Syria as the breakdown of a truce made aid deliveries dangerous and difficult…

Syrian peace talks in ‘great danger,’ UN envoy says

The United Nations envoy for Syria appealed to the U.S. and Russia to intervene to help revive Syrian peace talks that sputtered to a pause Wednesday, saying a recent spike…

What’s stopping you from making a difference overseas this summer?

Written by Erika Pettigrew, LIFE Team participant - Money, school, friends, or family? Work, or vacations? Doubt, or fear? Maybe you think you can have the most impact close to…

Dinner is served with an informative experience

Food nourishes, satiates and brings people together. It did all that and more on April 9 and 10, when hobby chefs Tim Lee and Elaine Cheng hosted a dinner fundraiser…

Soup Mix for Syrian Refugees

Fraser Valley Gleaners has been an integral partner of ours! Click here to see why.

Vancouver is Awesome

Not many people can say that they have fed 5,000 people, for free, in the course of one-and-a-half hours. But Elaine Cheng can. The best (and worst) part? The meals…

Caring for Those in the Community

Refugees are resettling in Canada with very little in hand, so when an opportunity arose to supply some much needed items to a local centre that aids refugees, we happily took it. On…

Puddle to Pump

Imagine if the only way you could access water was to dig holes in a swamp and wait all night for water to seep in? This was the reality of women in the village…

Happy International Women’s Day Moushie!

Moushie, as we lovingly call her, completed 60 years of stay and service with Mukti Mission. Having heard the call to go to India, Moushie left for India in 1955.…

With 4 million Syrian children out of school, $1.4 billion sought by UN to save ‘lost generation’

2 February 2016 – With four million Syrian and host community children in need of education and no let-up in sight in the fighting tearing the country apart, the United…

In Word and Deed

In November 2015, our GAiN Water for Life Initiative Team visited Ethiopia and brought back good news from a poor, remote village in the dry region of Southern Ethiopia -…

Calling state of besieged Syrian town horrendous, UN seeks humanitarian access

8 January 2016 – As the United Nations and its partners struggled today to gain humanitarian access to the Government-beseiged Syrian city of Madaya, amid reports of people starving to…

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

Writen by Mukti's caregiver - Shruti first came to Mukti Mission five years ago as a small 12 year-old girl with Down Syndrome. She comes from a kind family and…

More Than Just Clean Water

The village of Rweje in Tanzania had the most number of buckets and jerry cans lined up at a water well that our Water for LIfe Initiative team had ever…