When Antoinette was a young girl, her parents taught her to take care of those in need by giving them food and a place to stay. Her father told her that some day she should open a free restaurant for the hungry.

Refugees who fled from violence in Syria to peace in Lebanon are still facing serious challenges. There are no jobs for the adults and no schools for the children. Many are going without daily necessities.

Dr. Nemam is a native of Kurdistan, a land torn apart by war. She was working in Sweden when she heard news that her people were suffering, so she decided to return and offer any help she could.

Refugees from Mosul in Northern Iraq were given a place to live when two brothers gave up their houses to 23 families.

In November 2013, the strongest typhoon ever recorded slammed into the Philippines. The opportunities to help each other along created a beautiful silver lining around an otherwise terrible tragedy.

Providing so many people with vaccinations for deadly diseases like measles seems like an impossible task. That doesn’t stop Gaylene from doing her part in her community.

“We are not perfect, but we love helping others, because we know this is an emergency, and people in hard situations should show who they really are and be good to one another,” says the mayor.

Orphans is Romania received blood transfusions in the 1980s to make them stronger—but the blood was actually infected with HIV. Through the use of a single syringe, the virus was passed along from one child to another.

War devastated Sierra Leone for over 10 years. Rebels were killing civilians, civilians who weren’t killed had no food, and the road to freedom was blocked. Survivors Abie and Mohammad Turay are proof that God lives and loves His children.

When she lost her baby boy to a preventable disease, Helen knew she had to do something to save others from similar tragedy.