I’m happy to report that our project in Nepal continues to go well. We have made great progress on the house for our beneficiary family...

Ayubowan. In addition to our Nepal project, which is going very well, I have been in Sri Lanka starting a new project and reconnecting...

In Hambantota, a town in southern Sri Lanka which was especiall hard hit by the tsunami in 2004, MicroAid built a house for the Soodin...

MicroAid provided windows and doors to two tsunami families who, after their homes were washed away, were just handed money to rebuild....

Mrs. Nagakanni’s husband, a fisherman, had been abducted by the LTTE and then imprisoned for seven years.  He was away when the tsunami...

I am happy to report that I am back from Sri Lanka having completed all the post-disaster recovery projects we set out to do. As you...

Can’t remember when it started, but the Soodin kids now call me “Jon-uncle.” So sweet, really, as long as they don’t start calling me,...

It’s funny how once you fix one thing in your house it can spur a host of other home-improvement projects. When we started to install the...

A quick note about traveling: the more you do it, the less different the world seems–slight variations in clothing, architecture,...

In so many ways I am getting used to being here. I don’t feel bedraggled all the time, and a breeze in the shade, even at 90 degrees,...