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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Did you know World Concern has a nonprofit gift catalogue? 'Round these parts we call it the Global Gift Guide, and it's a way to give a gift to someone you know (Christmas is coming!) and do good at the same time. Browse the gifts...nonprofit christmas gifts

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[3 Dec 2009 | No Comment | ]
1,000 Crosses For World AIDS Day

It’s tough to break through the noise. People have got places to go. They’re lost in thought as they walk, talking on the phone, worrying about their own lives.

That’s why it was so cool to see a moment in time where people could pause and reflect, even briefly, about the enormous human cost of a pandemic.

It’s tough to miss what amounts to a graveyard on a college campus.

Seattle Pacific University students helped me place 1,000 white crosses with …

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[13 Mar 2009 | No Comment | ]
Haiti Humanitarians - Kill the worms for 44 cents

I met a 13-year-old girl today with ongoing stomach problems. She likely has intestinal worms. Remarkably, we can help for just a few pennies.

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[9 Dec 2008 | No Comment | ]
High School Humanitarians

Orphans: World AIDS Day art display for humanitarian organization World Concern.
Students from Kings High School in Seattle worked with World Concern to produce art for World AIDS Day 2008. The mixed media art projects were displayed in a public library in Seattle. I was impressed with the display. I think my favorite was a simple, bold painting that helps illustrate the pain of orphans.
Help: World AIDS Day art display for humanitarian organization World Concern.Tear: World AIDS Day art display for humanitarian organization World Concern.
Heart: World AIDS Day art display for …

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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 | ]
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.