tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-1691374 2012-01-25T07:50:06-07:00 My travels as I involve companies, churches, organizations and individuals in helping some of the poorest villages of the world -- with Global Hope Network International. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d7488340167610e2250970b 2012-01-25T07:50:06-07:00 2012-01-25T17:05:17-07:00

Isiolo town is our staff's base in central Kenya, as they diligently help the surrounding poor villages. Violence between tribal groups again escalated there in recent months, ebbing and flowing. Deaths have occurred sometimes weekly. And our staff are wisely...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2012/01/women-form-peace-walk.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d748834015393e73a5d970b 2011-12-02T07:48:28-07:00 2011-12-02T07:48:28-07:00

I just had a great video call with Wubshet & Habiba in Kenya. They shared several pieces of good news: The recent tribal fighting has subsided. Things had gotten bad, with one particular tribe killing over a dozen people from...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/12/good-news-from-kenya.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d7488340153921cb4f7970b 2011-10-06T09:04:51-06:00 2011-10-24T07:00:03-06:00

I'm now in Cairo, Egypt. We've gathered our staff from 13 countries of Africa and the Middle East... giving further training in how to help poor villages with Transformational Community Development. It's been a great week. We now have staff...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/10/meet-our-nigerian-staff.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d7488340153921ca466970b 2011-10-06T08:52:21-06:00 2011-10-06T09:36:58-06:00

I'm here in Bangalore, India. We've gathered our Asian staff for a week of training in how to better help villages with Transformational Community Development. Meet Phil and John, our GHNI staff in Indonesia. I'll be taking people to Indonesia...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/10/meet-our-indonesian-team.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d7488340154348a681f970c 2011-08-15T08:14:55-06:00 2011-08-15T11:52:30-06:00

Kaltuma (pictured right), and a dozen amazing women and men like her, will now save lives in their villages. How? It's all because of our freshly-conducted training for volunteer Community Health Workers (CHWs) from each of the four villages we're...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/08/kaltuma-saves-lives-in-her-village.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d74883401543412e6b8970c 2011-07-28T20:32:04-06:00 2011-09-17T07:59:32-06:00

This week's volunteer trip is more complicated than ever because we've expanded GHNI's work to FOUR villages in this area. We call it a "village cluster." They ALL need water. They ALL need schools. They ALL need to learn how...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/07/four-villages-to-help-transform.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d748834015390229013970b 2011-07-24T05:40:30-06:00 2011-07-24T05:52:21-06:00

In the summer of 2009 our Gambella village was attacked by the neighboring village. Seven Gambella men were shot and killed, and over 1,000 animals were stolen. Desperate drought here breeds such violence. But this water well being drilled may...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/07/well-of-peace.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d748834015433af4ff5970c 2011-07-13T06:03:08-06:00 2011-07-13T06:03:08-06:00

Last week I was invited to address a gathering of developing-world leaders in Geneva, Switzerland. What a powerful week! The Geneva Institute for Leadership and Public Policy helps developing-world leaders craft policy to help the poor in their nation have...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/07/world-changers-in-geneva.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d74883401538df9ea67970b 2011-04-19T12:03:12-06:00 2011-05-19T10:10:17-06:00

It was the realization of a crazy idea. And it's now a game-changer. If you've followed this blog for a while you know that our new Adopt-a-Village program has focused on finding local groups like businesses, churches and civic orgs...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/04/how-moms-adopted-a-village-in-3-hours-10-minutes-online.html tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00e553b88d7488340147e3a39dbe970b 2011-03-31T06:02:32-06:00 2011-04-19T11:46:12-06:00

Very early the other morning, village leaders from Bulesa Dima wiped sleep from their eyes and trudged their way in the dark to an open field to wait for dawn by our truck. Why? Because they wanted to meet their...

Jeff Power http://pangeo.typepad.com/pangeo/2011/03/village-skype-call.html