This summer, HOPE was blessed to have over 20 interns join our team, both in our Lancaster, PA office and internationally. The following is an excerpt from a blog kept by intern Tara Woodward about her time in Moldova with HOPE’s partner Invest-Credit.

Success happens when a client finds hope again. Before Victor and his wife started a chicken business, Victor was an alcoholic. Then, after Victor and his wife started attending a church near their village, they became Christians, and Victor stopped drinking. For a while, everything was good, until they found out that his wife had cancer. After many prayers for her healing, God miraculously took the cancer away, and everything was fine again. A year later, the cancer came back and his wife only lived a short time later. Victor’s original 300 chickens were dwindling to 45 because of the medical expenses. After the death of his wife, Victor Rotaru was left with seven children to care for, a dwindling business, and an ache in his heart. Life was hard, but Victor knew that God is still faithful and has a plan despite tough seasons. Continue Reading…

Living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Christine Mobimbi first decided to open a small sewing workshop in 2003 to help her husband provide for their eight children, three of whom were adopted nieces and nephews. However, when surgery in 2005 kept her away from her business for several months, it went bankrupt, and Christine lost everything she had worked so hard to create. Discouraged, Christine was unable to obtain the capital she needed to restart her business, and without her additional income, the family struggled to get by. Continue Reading…