Meet Alvin

MEET ALVIN Alvin, a 38 year-old husband and father of three, says he thanks God for bringing Side by Side Alliance and the other partners to his community for the IMPACT Project!  When Alvin heard about the IMPACT Project, he knew he needed to be a part of it. And since March of this year,…

God’s Bountiful Ways

God’s Bountiful Ways“A Covid19 Relief Operation Story” The Covid19 Pandemic has been and still is our great enemy these days. Many people have lost their jobs, lost their source of income and some have even lost their lives during this fight. This pandemic has brought us fear and frustration.  Some people have become greedy and...

Bringing Food & Hope

BRINGING FOOD & HOPE For people living in impoverished places around the world, not getting sick from COVID19 is only half the battle. Many of the world’s vulnerable become victims of the COVID19 crisis because of two often-deadly secondary impacts of the disease: increased poverty and hunger. Before COVID19, if a person could not find...

An Extraordinary View

An Extraordinary View Our first home in the Philippines was a small room on the inside hall of a downtown hotel in Tacloban City. It was clean, comfortable, and (thankfully!) air-conditioned. Although we didn’t spend a lot of time there, Room 211 quickly became our haven in the midst of the devastation and sadness that...

Sharing Hope

Sharing Hope Mario was three-years old when we met him, but he walked and talked like a child half that age. The same was true of his older brother, Jon, six. Their swollen bellies, plagued with worms and the constant ache of hunger, resembled the look of a pregnant woman. In contrast to their swollen...