Walking through this little Roma settlement, west of Oradea, Romania you can easily be overwhelmed by the terrible living conditions. During the rainy season the roads are practically impassable and children play in mud holes. The inhabitants of this village, in the Bihur province, live in self-made mud homes, with no access to running water [...]

In September of 2009, Convoy of Hope Europe partnered with Pastor Barry Ivie of St. Charles River Church to conduct it’s fourth outreach in the city of Lisbon. The east side of the city is well known in Portugal as the place where you would not want to live. There are rows and rows of high rise apartment buildings which house many of the cities’ poor. The residents of the east side survive on government subsidies and rent control.

This former warehouse, converted to a refugee center during the Balkan wars, looks abandoned and dilapidated.  But walking in you realize that this building is home to 22 families, including many children. Garbage is everywhere, toilets are broken and filthy beyond imagination and in the corridors young children share the sparsely available play space with [...]