Every Thursday, Madeline Comes Back
On Thursday afternoons at Agua Viva, Madeline brings a giant purple crayon to life for a room full of children. Eleven years ago she was one of the first teens in our program.
A Bible Story, a Box of Crayons, and the Science of Healing — Built for the Front Lines
Watching a child's whole sense of himself shift like that is, as Tamitha puts it, "seeing himself through God's eyes for the first time — that's exactly why we built this." It's the distance between a child surviving a hard week and beginning, slowly, to thrive.
The Children Couldn’t Believe They’d Been Invited
A pastor and his wife were warned to stay out of one community near Cotopaxi. They walked in anyway to invite a hundred children to Christmas, and they keep going back.
The first lesson at Agua Viva isn’t math. It’s a deep breath.
A Tuesday at Agua Viva, our campus outside Quito, where the first lesson each day is a child's body learning it is safe.
Gabriela’s Journey to Thriving
Gabriela first came to our campus at six, holding her mother's hand. A water filter opened her father's front door, and today her whole family studies the Bible together.