What does Children’s HopeChest’s longest headquarter employee have to say about her 20 years with the organization? Today, Rachel Andrews, Vice President of International Operations, reflects on lessons learned from 20 years in international poverty relief work.
Orion Netsanet, Partnership Development Representative, shares his personal story of how inheriting his parents’ fierce advocacy and traveling to a CarePoint in Ethiopia for the first time led him to work with HopeChest.
Whitney’s work at Children’s HopeChest as Partner Development Manager is to connect others who share her passions of justice and advocacy to HopeChest’s invitation to community transformation. Today she shares her powerful and vulnerable story of how social work and adoption led her to work with HopeChest.
Wil, Vice President of Strategic Development, shares his personal narrative of how an experience in Ethiopia’s red light district ignited a passion for connecting individuals to defending the cause of vulnerable children.
The homemade PVC-framed curtains are up. The pharmacy is readily staffed. We are flush with physical therapists wielding braces and canes. We have enough fluoride
We met Vitalik back on a partner visit in 2009 to Kameshkevo Orphanage. Vitalik had only been at the orphanage for a short time, maybe
We all have emotions and parts of us that are stirred when we see the faces of underprivileged children from majority world countries. Actually laying
In December of 2010, I had to evacuate a large city in the middle of riot. As we drove toward a border country, we evaded
Each year that I have returned it amazes me how the children remember me! How they hold onto the memories made over just six days a year. These children love the relationship that we are building, as do I!
Prior to this trip we were told we’d be doing “something different.” We wouldn’t be making “Home Visits” but instead, we’d have something called “Community Time” with parents and guardians of the children at Tullo CarePoint. This was something new and totally foreign to us. To say we were disappointed is an understatement. Reasons had been explained, however, and we were all somewhat willing to “try something new.”
