On Christmas Day, a typhoon slammed into Eastern Samar in the Philippines—the same area where MicroAid built houses for families who survived Typhoon Haiyan in 2013. Because electricity was knocked out for days, and the roads were blocked due to downed trees and other debris, we were unable to contact our people there—our beneficiary families, our assistant project manager, nor our friends. Today, we finally got through, and everyone we know is safe and sound. And the houses

Someone said to me about MicroAid, “You’re not changing the world.” I thought that was a funny thing to say, because, for the families we help, we ARE changing their world! As we continue to repair and rebuild permanent homes for disaster-survivor families, they will have a safe and comfortable place to live for generations to come. Thank you for supporting this essential work. And so, we have just finished another home repair and retrofit for a family in Nepal. Their house w