Humanitarian Aid and Relief

Derek Sciba documents World Concern's activities across the planet as the organization's communication officer. Derek has visited villages in rural Kenya where World Concern touches the lives of poor farmers, widows and AIDS orphans. He's interviewed organization leaders from Haiti and Southeast Asia. Derek's professional background includes a decade in TV news at ABC and CBS stations across the western U.S., working as a videographer, reporter and news anchor. Most recently Derek worked at KATU-TV in Portland, Oregon, as a reporter.
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World Concern is a nonprofit Christian humanitarian organization that has been serving some of the world's poorest people for over 50 years. As part of CRISTA Ministries, we are rated a Four Star Charity, the highest possible rating by Charity Navigator (see the rating). World Concern helps educate people, fight hunger and poverty, set up microfinance to help the poor, perform vocational and business training, provide health and medical services, dig wells and provide clean drinking water, and give disaster response and relief when needed.
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[17 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Seattle Pacific University AIDS Humanitarians

Last night, about 10 students at Seattle Pacific University decided studying for tests could wait.

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[8 Jul 2009 | One Comment | ]
A New Leader for Myanmar Humanitarian Aid

I met an amazingly qualified new co-worker of mine yesterday, a medical doctor who once worked in a leprosy mission and has a masters degree in public administration from the Kennedy School in Boston.

Naw Rebecca Htin is a world-class humanitarian. She begins this month as the new World Concern country director for Myanmar (Burma). She’s a mother of three and her husband is a neurosurgeon. And she also grew up in Burma, which was the name of her native country until 1989, when the current military government decided to reinforce the country’s separation from British colonial rule.

Naw is “Ms.” in her language. We call her Rebecca, and she’s also an answer …

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[12 Feb 2009 | 3 Comments | ]
Help to Injured Civilians in Sri Lanka War

Right now, World Concern’s Sri Lanka staff is helping many civilians injured during recent attacks.

World Concern is one of only a few humanitarian relief agencies permitted by the government to help.

We’re providing food, bedding, clothing and personal supplies to both the wounded and the weary aid workers.

It appears to be the last deadly throes of a long civil war.

The ethnic minority that has been fighting for autonomy has been cornered.

Regardless of your perspective, innocent families are paying with the lives of their loved ones because of this war.

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[16 Jan 2009 | One Comment | ]
Humanitarians Act to Stop Child Trafficking

She’s 13 years old and badly disfigured. Her eye has been gouged from her face, ripped out with a metal shard by a woman holding her captive in a Cambodian sex trafficking operation. The story of Long Pross is a difficult one to stomach, but as described in a recent New York Times OpEd piece by Nicholas Kristof, it is the kind of story westerners must hear.

It doesn’t matter the gender, and sadly it doesn’t matter the age. Trafficking children for indentured servitude, prostitution or sex slavery is an enormous industry. More than 1 million children are trafficked every year, sometimes for as little as $20.

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[30 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
Your End of Year Donation Matters

World Concern maintained a remarkable record of success in 2008, in a year with challenges.

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[1 Dec 2008 | One Comment | ]
1,000 Crosses on World AIDS Day

Early this morning, I joined a couple of co-workers for an unusual event in front of World Concern’s international headquarters in Seattle.

Hammering by streetlight, we finished placing 1,000 wooden crosses into the ground, each with a red felt ribbon.

Today is World AIDS Day, a time when the general public joins humanitarians to consider the enormity of the HIV and AIDS pandemic.

5,500 people will die …

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[20 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
Welcome to World Concern’s “Humanitarian Aid” Blog

This blog is a venue to share ideas about relief and development in some of the poorest countries on the planet.

Aid & Relief Stories, Humanitarian Aid, Humanitarian News, Humanitarian Photos »

[20 Nov 2008 | No Comment | ]
The Plan: Plant 1,000 crosses for World AIDS Day

It’s rightfully disconcerting to see an enormous pile of white wooden crosses. There are too many to easily count. I had 300 of them in my SUV this morning.

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[13 Nov 2008 | One Comment | ]
Humanitarian Aid in Myanmar

Just imagine what’s left over from a major storm along the coast. Debris clogging a bay under a blue sky…