A significant humanitarian crisis is unfolding. Essential infrastructure has been severely disrupted, with many health facilities and water supply systems affected. Thousands of educational and community facilities have also been impacted.
The situation is particularly dire in certain areas, where pre-existing challenges are being exacerbated. A recent earthquake has caused widespread destruction, resulting in a substantial number of people being affected and homes becoming uninhabitable. Further information on the situation is available from the Colombia Emergency Response, Situation Report.
The full extent of the damage and the response efforts can be found in the report, which provides more details on the crisis and its impact.
. ABSTRACT This case study highlights how a refugee-led organisation of six local staff was able to sustainably provide long-term support to over 27,000 beneficiaries in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley through adoption of a structured, choice-based digital voucher and aid delivery program...
. Summary: Local organisations are typically first to respond in a crisis, yet continue to receive only a small share of humanitarian funding directly. This is often attributed to capacity or trust, but a closer look points to a structural gap instead: the accountability infrastr...
. By Lara Cooper Fourteen tons of requested medical aid arrived in Kathmandu, Nepal, over the weekend to support communities impacted by last month’s flash floods. More than 1,300 people were killed when catastrophic flooding swept through entire communities in northern Nepal and...
Sitting alone in a tepee-like shelter made from sticks collected by a dry African riverbed in 1974, 24-year-old Debbie Dortzbach stitched the words of Psalm 34:4 onto a white bandage from her captors’ helicopter first aid kit. The phrase “I sought the Lord and he heard me” altern...
Liberty University students who got up for an early class on September 11, 2001, may have skimmed a copy of the Liberty Champion at breakfast in the dining hall. If they did, they may have read about the university’s Spiritual Emphasis Week, or about renovations to the major acad...
“We inherited two worlds—one of hope to which we were bred; one of a certain disillusion which we had discovered for ourselves.” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote those words of the 1920s, speaking to a generation that had served in World War I and often followed it with hedonistic exces...
Growing up, I often heard one statement in my church youth group: “The most loving thing you can do is tell someone the truth.” The statement became especially potent whenever we gathered for a weekend at the Youth Evangelism Conference in my home state of Oklahoma to be reminded...
This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Jennifer Anderson, Feed Them Well: A Guide to Raising Healthy, Confident Eaters for Life (Flatiron Books, 2026) The process of teaching kids what to eat—and how—can force us to address our own sometimes-dysfunctio...
Countries: World, occupied Palestinian territory, Somalia, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic . Ongoing wars, protracted conflicts and recurring natural disasters have driven the number of people in need of aid to record levels. At the same time, the global humanitarian system is strugg...
