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Sojourners impacts local communities across the country including here in Tri-Cities. Like our partner, we seek ways to be salt and light in this world to support the development of healthy and vibrant communities and bear fruit that will last (John 15:16). 

Through village peace committees in 23 villages, Malto and Santhal tribes work together to heal historic wounds and address such challenges as poverty and deforestation.

In 2016, Vista Hermosa Foundation started funding the Ugandan organization Watye Ki Gen in hopes to reconcile and restore relationships for children born in captivity during the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgence.

Haiti Partners, Vista Hermosa Foundation partner since 2009, is producing a book written in Haiti-Creole with a translation to English, to tell the story of their school created with the philosophy of servant leadership.

Since 2021, two Rarámuri language teachers have been documenting their work and life in Choréachi and the Sierra Tarahumara…

Millicent Opundo discovered she was HIV/AIDS positive when she fell ill after the death of her husband in 2011. HIV/AIDS was at its peak in 2011, with many people in the Kenya and the community of Rabour losing loved ones to the disease, and antiretroviral medication expensive beyond reach. 

Within Cox’s Bazaar, World Vision is working with men and women religious leaders to link gender-based violence materials with the Quran, creating a new gender awareness within a relevant religious framework.

To address the complex issues of gender-based violence in Mexico, Amextra developed the project “Our voices put a stop to violence” in indigenous Tzeltal communities of Ocosingo, Chiapas, Mexico.

Pushpa joined an Intergenerational Learning Group (ILG) with other women in her community in Northeastern India. Women of all ages, social castes and religions came together to discuss the challenges facing their community, and to implement development plans.