Going for It!

By Mike Tenbusch | October 07, 2022 When she was a young girl, Yessenia was forced by the conditions surrounding her to work in the garbage dump in El Ocotillo, outside San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to pull out as much plastic and cardboard as she could from the teeming...

Pep Talk or Smack Talk?

By Tucker Rossmaessler |  September 30, 2022 IntSam Director of Engagement All of us have different ways that we’re motivated.  Some of us prefer the encouragement from a coach or mentor, for others it’s a a team of friends running alongside us...

Sharing Our Stories

By Mike Tenbusch | September 23, 2022 What a joy it was to be a part of Ronia Romero’s barnstorming tour across the United States this past week!  Ronia leads our mission in Tegucigalpa and has personally led the charge for bringing water to her community there.  Over...

A Tale of Three Men

By Mike Tenbusch | September 9, 2022 Roberto Contreras grew up in a small neighborhood near San Pedro Sula, Honduras.  The El Ocotillo dump reached the edge of their town and after school some of the kids would go there to pick through the mountains of garbage and see...

Coming Soon to a Phone Near You

By Mike Tenbusch | July 1, 2022 As we come together with family and friends this weekend to celebrate the courage that our founders had in 1776, our children may also want to give thanks for the wisdom of the leaders who passed laws in 1938 forbidding child labor in...

A Second, Second Chance

By Selam Terefe  |  September 2, 2022 IntSam Director in Ethiopia ‘Everyone deserves a second second chance’… This was the quote running through my head that afternoon, something my mother often said lovingly to me and my siblings growing up.  Little did I know the...

A Dream Come True, a New Roof!

By Sister Gloria Xól Chun  |  July 8, 2022 Principle of the Francisco Coll School in Guatemala The Francisco Coll School is located just outside the Zone 3 garbage dump in Guatemala City. For more than 25 years, Francisco Coll has provided free education for...

Teammates for Life

By Mike Tenbusch | June 29, 2022 In my senior year at U of D Jesuit High School, I was president of our Student Senate, which meant one thing to every other student in the school—it was my job to make sure that our dance each month “was live” so that everybody went...

The Calm After the Storm

By Angelica Cancinos | June 17, 2022 International Samaritan’s Director in Guatemala No todas las tormentas vienen para perturbar tu vida.Algunas llegan para limpiarte el camino. Not all storms come to disturb your life.Some come to clear your path. This phrase...