Liz, an experienced and talented artisan, was invited to attend trainings facilitated by Diaconía, a HOPE partner in Paraguay. Liz sharpened her business and crafting skills. Now she says, "I feel capable. Being an entrepreneur makes me feel strong.”
Pastor Joel’s story is a beautiful picture of interdependency – a mutual seeing and meeting of needs. Interdependency provides a firm foundation for healthy societal, relational, spiritual, and economic development.
How would you describe poverty? Poverty is best understood as brokenness. Brokenness in relationships, brokenness in access to resources, brokenness in opportunities, spiritual brokenness… On my recent trip to the Dominican Republic with the Keystone Custom Homes team, what I saw in our associates wasn’t poverty. I saw dignity...
Astrida and her family are the reason Homes for HOPE exists as a vehicle for the building industry to fight against global poverty. They didn’t need someone to give them food, pay their school fees, or build them a house. They needed a sustainable solution that lasts for the long term - a hand up, not a handout.
After a severe case of measles left him blind at age 8, Peter felt he had limited options for his future. In a culture where blindness is highly stigmatized, many blind people live as beggars.
Homes for Hope and BuilderMT teamed up to create a video as a call to action for Homes for Hope. Watch to video for more...
Builders across America knew something was wrong but couldn’t quite put their finger on it. Those who build Homes for Hope have come to realize that handouts don’t always help, they can hurt.
Have you ever wondered what is happening behind the scenes of your donations? This podcast is a window into the monitoring and evaluation of our sister organization HOPE International, who is responsible for putting your donations to work on the ground.
Life gets hectic in the homebuilding industry leaving very little room for freeing people who are spiritually impoverished in our own backyards.
As Christians who happen to build homes for a living we live in a very diverse industry with a crazy amount of outside influences, and if we aren’t careful we can lose track of our identity. In times like that we are reminded that “we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.” Ephesians 2:10
