Posts by: Mark Alyward
According to the National Statistics Coordination Board (NSCB), 27.9 percent of Filipinos live below the poverty line.
In the spring of 2015 PCF visited the slums of Navotas, a coastal city located north of Manila and home to some of the Philippines’ most vulnerable. Thousands of slum and shanty town dwellers live […]
(Lusaka, Zambia)
Zambia has a population of 11.5 million, of which an estimated 1 million are orphaned children. The national HIV/AIDS prevalence rate is estimated to be at least 16% and the average life expectancy is 38 years.
The Kondwa Day Centre for Orphans is located in the Ng’ombe Compound of Lusaka, one of […]
A woman sits remarkably upright and proud considering her frail and skeletal state holding an even more emaciated baby in her bony arms, her eyes dead with fatigue and resignation. We are sitting in a humblest of dwellings in the slums of Ngombe, Zambia with its dirt floors and rusted sheet metal for a roof. […]
Abuse has a profane, damaging and lasting legacy.
In a recent visit to Africa as part of the monitoring and evaluation carried out by Project Childcare Foundation, a charity my fiancé Gary and I operate, we saw many who have become permanently scarred by the pain and burden of constant and pervasive abuse. The abuse […]
