Partner Stories
Stories about our team and partners from the field
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Mar-11-2026 | Partner StoriesSustainable Grace
When families can’t afford to mill their rice, Victor and Vilma keep the machine running anyway. Because in places where hunger grows, children become vulnerable to conflict and exploitation. What looks like a small act of generosity is quietly protecting an entire community.
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Jan-23-2022 | Partner StoriesOscar
When we met Oscar we could see his heart to help his community: his desire to educate, to keep children out of militant groups, to improve the quality of life in their remote villages. We could see it so clearly was because he was already doing it—and without pay. Oscar began teaching children in his community without a classroom, without pencils, without paper, and without a salary.
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Mar-01-2011 | Project-AK47From the Field: Tears from Burma
A drug lord in a region that one of our main projects is in has made things even worse as he is systematically trying to buy out everyone associated with us. He's offering them outrageous salaries to work as teachers, staff and even musicians. He's even tried to reach across national boundaries to get our people in other countries! Its pretty obvious he hopes to shut some or our projects down and is slowly squeezing us right now. Crazy world, eh?
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Apr-23-2009 | Project-AK47Our Recent Trip into a Restricted-Access Area
From www.projectAK47.com The trip in was tense. You could see it in the faces of our guides, especially while approaching military checkpoints. The national army was preparing to fight in the area where we were going, so we had to stay over in a border town full of casinos and brothels. At night, prostitutes would
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