Tag listing: Community Development
Celebrating Christmas Around the World with YWAM!
Youth With A Mission teams scattered around the globe have found several unique ways to celebrate Christmas in the communities where they live. For these teams, this season of giving is a particula...
Published December 22, 2011
YWAM Thailand Helps Flood Relief Efforts!
What would *you* think if a group of local police came knocking on the door of your training and ministry centre, asking to meet with your latest group of young students? When this happened recentl...
Published October 18, 2011
The Gift of Literacy
Today for the first time, a generation of Mozambicans living in the Zambezi delta have the opportunity to learn to read and write. In this area where poverty and illiteracy are rife, education offe...
Published September 30, 2011
YWAM Responds in Somalia Food Crisis
While aid groups and political movements argue about the severity of the food crisis in the eastern Horn of Africa, it is clear to everyone that an overwhelming number of people are desperate for h...
Published July 27, 2011
Join the Team to bring Pure Hope to Pakistan
The tragic flooding in Pakistan last year is said to be the worst disaster in living memory. According to the UN the effects of the flooding were worse than the combined effects of the Haiti Earthq...
Published March 16, 2011
Feeding Hungry Minds
Daow, a 16 year old Burmese girl who lives in a small community of laborers in Ratchaburi, almost cannot contain her excitement when she speaks of what has been happening in her community this week...
Published February 01, 2011
YWAM in Haiti - one year after
One year after an earthquake devastated the nation of Haiti, YWAM continues to partner with many other to provide long-term solutions to the needs of people who lost everything. YWAM Haiti direct...
Published January 12, 2011
Digging Deep amongst the Mukubal of Angola
Survival in the southwestern corner of Angola is tough. Rocky hills and huge baobab trees litter the landscape. The land is stony and arid, and the low rainfall and intense heat means that few crop...
Published January 11, 2011
Biography of a YWAMer
In rural Mozambique, many people believe that missions is for white people, for richer people, for more highly educated people. From their small training centre in the east of the country, Youth Wi...
Published November 24, 2010
Celebrating 50 Extraordinary Years!
Over the 50 years of Youth With A Mission’s lifespan the world of missions has changed dramatically.
In 1960 a missionary was invariably a white westerner, trained in a Bible College, sent to th...
Published November 17, 2010
