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In rural areas of Mexico, access to education can be limited by geography and poverty, leaving many children without reliable opportunities to attend school in these regions. To help bridge the gap, the Mexican government, through its Indigenous School Comprehensive Care Model, runs “Albergues Escolares”, student shelters that provide housing, meals and educational support for […]
In Santa Ana Necoxtla, All Hands & Hearts (AH&H) teams worked on a different kind of resilience than the bricks and concrete the local community had grown accustomed to seeing after months of rebuilding. We got together with dedicated partners and facilitators to provide special trainings for teachers and students, equipping the community with skills […]
In Santa Ana Necoxtla, Doña Juanita is a local emblem of strength in her community. A single mother of six, Juanita works hard every day making and selling tortillas to support her family. Without a home of her own, she and her children have lived with her parents, and all six children have stayed at […]
Over eight months since Hurricane Helene tore through her mountain community, All Hands & Hearts (AH&H) reconnected with Marya, one of the first people we supported in the immediate aftermath of the storm. She shared her story with us, where she is today, and explained the ongoing emotional and physical toll the storm has on […]
All Hands & Hearts (AH&H) spent over five months in Hariharpurgadhi, Nepal, learning, listening and integrating over time to understand the needs of the local community. AH&H’s initial scope of work in Hariharpurgadhi involved rebuilding Shree Bhanubhakta School, which serves 279 students, following damage from the country’s devastating earthquakes in 2015. Over time, AH&H was […]
Supporting Communities Affected by Helene Hurricane Helene comes as the latest reminder of the increasing frequency and severity of storms driven by climate change, which fuels record-breaking storms like Helene. As one of the fastest-intensifying storms in history, it grew from a potential tropical cyclone to a Category 4 hurricane in just five days, wreaking […]
Imagine if each year, you were faced with a tropical cyclone that had the potential to cause devastating damage to your home, leaving you with months of reconstruction, displacing you and your family. For those living in the Philippines, these occurrences can be commonplace as they endure not one, but 20 cyclones on average each […]
When Hurricane Helene swept through Black Mountain, a small town near Asheville, North Carolina, the community experienced devastation unlike anything they’d seen before. Marya, a local resident, witnessed a 10-foot-wide flash flood surge down the mountain, narrowly sparing her home from being swept away but leaving it completely flooded. Fallen trees blocked driveways, roads were […]
Around lunchtime on April 25, 2015, Nepal experienced the unthinkable. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck near the capital city of Kathmandu, shattering the calm of a typical Saturday afternoon and sending shockwaves of terror through unsuspecting communities. It was the strongest and most devastating earthquake the country had seen in over 80 years. In an instant, […]