For more than a year Petey Lorey has dedicated her time and energy to helping Giving Children Hope provide food each week to over 1,200 families in the We’ve Got Your Back program. Volunteering at least twice a week, she always brings with her great conversation, lots of laughter, and if we are lucky, delicious […]
Celebrating 25 years of Across the Street & Around the World
What started in 1993 with the adoption of a child in Eastern Europe has grown into the Giving Children Hope that now serves thousands of children and families across the street and around the world every week. This year, we celebrate our 25th anniversary and we invite you to celebrate with us. Giving Children Hope […]
Summer of Sharing
The demand for Giving Children Hope’s resources has grown faster and more urgently than at any other time in our 24-year history. Across the street, what started with preventing hunger, has transformed to preventing homelessness. This summer, we’ve seen a 50% increase in families coming to us to help them end the cycle of poverty. Around […]
Brandon, You Did It!
Most high school students don’t leave home at 3 a.m. to go to school, but Brandon did. As a U.S. citizen, he lived with his sister and mother in Mexico. Every day, he boarded a bus that crossed the border from Tijuana, Mexico to California to make it to school by 8 a.m. Before his […]
Relief for Venezuela
At one point, it was the richest country in Latin America, flourishing from the oil industry, but now, Venezuela is experiencing a humanitarian crisis. With skyrocketing inflation rates over 800% and a growing political storm, the crisis in Venezuela is continually worsening. As prices increase, severe basic needs shortages are occurring, including food and medical […]
Giving Children Hope Team Leaves for Haiti
Giving Children Hope staff are on the ground in Haiti delivering supplies to those in need. They will be overseeing the distribution of the cholera pharmecutical package and the forty-foot shipping container of emergency relief. The hurricane struck October 4 with winds up to 140 mph, devastating all in its path. Reports say it has claimed […]
Spring Newsletter 2016
Volunteer Highlight As a former Board Member and current volunteer, Megan Richardson describes herself as “a simple girl who loves the Lord, loves people and loves being able to do whatever she can to encourage others.” To us, she is all that and more. Megan first heard about us back in 2011 and knew she […]
Fall Newsletter 2015
Giving Children Hope Sends Relief Team to Nepal Six months after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal, much of the country remains in a state of turmoil. According to the New York Times, “aid is flowing into the capital city of Kathmandu, but hard-hit remote villages remain unserved.” Relief efforts have also been hindered by the […]
The Hope Times
GCHope’s 21st Year of Service We had just finished unloading boxes of food at a makeshift refugee camp in Lebanon, filled with refugees who had fled Syria, when a little boy stuck out his hand to ask for the empty roll of shipping tape in my hand. I handed it over to him and instantly […]